MYJ Sports Club and UK Football Club in contrasting fashion won their respective Veteran’s League matches of the Mumbai Football Association (MFA) League – 2022-2023 and played at the Neville D’Souza Ground, Bandra, on Sunday.
In a Group-C clash, MYJ Sports Club players showed good understanding and excellent teamwork and went on to record a convincing 3-0 win against Tarun Sporting. Vijith Shetty, Lonappan Thomas and Trilok Singh scored a goal each for the winners.
In another match of the same group, UK Football Club scored an early goal and went on to overcome Pune Veterans by a narrow 1-0 margin. Richard Robert scored the lone goal in the fourth minute.
Earlier, Central Railway and Black Wings Offshoots FC shared the spoils as they played out a fighting 1-1 draw. .
Results – Veteran’s league – Group-C: MYJ Sports Club 3 (Vijith Shetty, Lonappan Thomas, Trilok Singh) beat Tarun Sporting 0.
Group-C: UK Football Club 1 (Richard Robert) beat Pune Veterans 0.
Group-A: Central Railway 1 (Asif Jamal) drew with Black Wings Offshoots FC 1 (Anil D’Souza).