PANAJI: Goa made everybody sit up and take discover with beautiful performances on the 69th Senior Nationwide Males’s Kabaddi Championship at Charkhi Dadri in Haryana.
With a number of imports, the Goa kabaddi crew made historical past by making it the semifinals for the primary time, earlier than succumbing to the may of eventual champions Railways 20-43 of their last-four conflict.
Goa have now certified for the Nationwide Video games to be held in September in Gujarat. The crew may even function within the Federation Cup, together with the opposite prime seven groups in Telangana.
Coached by UP Yoddha’s Jasveer Singh, the Goa squad included 4 gamers from the Lucknow-based Professional Kabaddi franchise which completed third within the league. There have been additionally gamers from Patna Pirates and elsewhere.
“We’re delighted with the efficiency,” mentioned Goa Kabaddi Affiliation president Rukmini Kamat. “The intention was to create consciousness of kabaddi in Goa by aiming for the title and qualifying for Nationwide Video games and Fed Cup. Now we have climbed one step and there may be lot extra to be executed.”
The affiliation despatched the crew to Meerut for a month-long coaching with Professional Kabaddi franchisee UP Yoddha the place they have been coached by Jasveer, who was additionally the Goa coach. Omkar Gawas was the crew’s assistant coach.
Goa created an upset within the quarterfinals after they edged previous Uttar Pradesh 41-38 earlier within the day.
Surender Gill carried out persistently for Goa as they received all three of its league video games, beginning with a 48-29 win in opposition to Vidarbha, a 40-10 win in opposition to Manipur and a nail-biting 51-50 triumph in opposition to Rajasthan.
Goa didn’t look again and proved their may within the spherical of 16 with a 40-27 win in opposition to Karnataka.
All 12 taking part in gamers of Goa have been chosen for the Professional Kabaddi season 9 public sale scheduled for subsequent month.
Kamat advocate three extra gamers — Aakash Singh, Dhruvik Goyal and Akash Bibolkar — for the auctions and her request was accepted by chairman of Professional Kabaddi League Anupam Goswami.
“It was all the time going to be robust within the semifinals in opposition to Railways, which principally have nationwide gamers. We tried our greatest, however as soon as they went forward with a 10-point lead, it was actually troublesome for a comeback. I thank coach Jasveer and UP Yoddha academy for serving to our crew,” mentioned Kamat.
Goa squad: Shrikant Jadhav, Surender Gill, Nehal Sawal, Shubham Kumar, Anil Kumar, Mohit, Shivam Chaudhary, Nitin Chandel, Rahul Veeresh, Devendra Gopal, Sahish Gaude, Laxman Gawda.
With a number of imports, the Goa kabaddi crew made historical past by making it the semifinals for the primary time, earlier than succumbing to the may of eventual champions Railways 20-43 of their last-four conflict.
Goa have now certified for the Nationwide Video games to be held in September in Gujarat. The crew may even function within the Federation Cup, together with the opposite prime seven groups in Telangana.
Coached by UP Yoddha’s Jasveer Singh, the Goa squad included 4 gamers from the Lucknow-based Professional Kabaddi franchise which completed third within the league. There have been additionally gamers from Patna Pirates and elsewhere.
“We’re delighted with the efficiency,” mentioned Goa Kabaddi Affiliation president Rukmini Kamat. “The intention was to create consciousness of kabaddi in Goa by aiming for the title and qualifying for Nationwide Video games and Fed Cup. Now we have climbed one step and there may be lot extra to be executed.”
The affiliation despatched the crew to Meerut for a month-long coaching with Professional Kabaddi franchisee UP Yoddha the place they have been coached by Jasveer, who was additionally the Goa coach. Omkar Gawas was the crew’s assistant coach.
Goa created an upset within the quarterfinals after they edged previous Uttar Pradesh 41-38 earlier within the day.
Surender Gill carried out persistently for Goa as they received all three of its league video games, beginning with a 48-29 win in opposition to Vidarbha, a 40-10 win in opposition to Manipur and a nail-biting 51-50 triumph in opposition to Rajasthan.
Goa didn’t look again and proved their may within the spherical of 16 with a 40-27 win in opposition to Karnataka.
All 12 taking part in gamers of Goa have been chosen for the Professional Kabaddi season 9 public sale scheduled for subsequent month.
Kamat advocate three extra gamers — Aakash Singh, Dhruvik Goyal and Akash Bibolkar — for the auctions and her request was accepted by chairman of Professional Kabaddi League Anupam Goswami.
“It was all the time going to be robust within the semifinals in opposition to Railways, which principally have nationwide gamers. We tried our greatest, however as soon as they went forward with a 10-point lead, it was actually troublesome for a comeback. I thank coach Jasveer and UP Yoddha academy for serving to our crew,” mentioned Kamat.
Goa squad: Shrikant Jadhav, Surender Gill, Nehal Sawal, Shubham Kumar, Anil Kumar, Mohit, Shivam Chaudhary, Nitin Chandel, Rahul Veeresh, Devendra Gopal, Sahish Gaude, Laxman Gawda.