NAFC WINS AKU SPORTS CENTRE SIX-A-SIDE RAMADAN FOOTBALL TROPHY

The final of the AKU Sports Centre Six-a-Side Ramadan Football Tournament 2005 was played on Saturday, October 29, 2005 evening. The National Athletics Football Club (NAFC) clinched the Ramadan Football Trophy beating Aga Khan Gymkhana (Green) by 02-01 goals. The exciting match was played neck to neck each team trying to take a lead and at half time the score was 01-Nil goal in favour of NAFC. Main scorer for the winners was Mehmood Raza who scored two goals. The first goal scored in the 5th minute of the 1st half and second in the 19th minute of the 2nd half while for the losers their scorer was Arif Hussain who scored the only goal in the 2nd minute of the 2nd half. Messer's Mohd. Muslim and Zaman Ghani refereed the final match.

Mr. Ghulam Abbas Baloch, Vice President Pakistan Football Federation in presence of Hanif Shairff, Sr. Manager Administrative Services and Riaz Akbar Contractor, Chief Organizer and Manager AKU Sports Centre distributed the prizes among the players. The NAFC Caption Mehmood Raza received the Winning Trophy while AKG (Green) skipper Inayat Sayani received the Runner's-up Trophy. Khayyam Juma of Laurention Football Club (LFC) was awarded the Best Player of the Tournament Award and Abrar Haji of AKG (Green) was given the Highest Scorer Award (06 goals) while a special Consolation Prize was given to Mehmood Raza of National Athletics Football Club for demonstrating excellent skills in the Football Tournament. The Chief Guest Mr. Ghulam Abbas Baloch paid tributes to the efforts of AKU Sports Centre Organizers for organizing such healthy activities especially for the youths and congratulated both the teams on their success. He emphasized to the Organizers that such Tournaments should be arranged on regular basis for the promotion of Football amongst the youth. Mr. Riaz Akbar Contractor, Chief Organizer and Manager AKU Sports Centre thanked the guests, the participating teams and the technical officials for all the support in organizing the successful tournament.