GIFA CUP

The GIFA cup was a magnificent initiative taken by the well-known newspaper of India-Hindustan Times. It was a ginormous cup, one for Delhi and one for Gurgaon. I participated in the Gurgaon tournament, where a whopping 78 teams participated. Our team was a debutant in the cup. The organizers had done a pretty fine job in terms of the venue, the match and management. Hosted at Ansal University, there were four pitches where we played. It was a tremendous experience for me and the rest of the team. HT had done a pretty good job. We got past through the group stages and made it to knockouts round at over to the round of 16 and then to the Quarters, where we suffered a loss. I felt really good at our decent progress in the cup, even though we lost the quarter finals. But nonetheless, we had a stunning time in the tournament, which was inevitably my best performance ever in a tournament. Hats off to HT for bringing joy to all the Football-crazy fans in Gurgaon, and hosting a platform for us to develop in our Football skills. But getting to the last 8 out of 78 is pretty good. It was more of a football festival than a tournament where it commemorated joy, fun and football.GIFA was disciplined flawlessly and HT  receives a thunderous applause for this event.