Date:19/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/19/stories/2008041957022000.htm

Sport - Football

Sporting Clube in semifinals

KANNUR: Sporting Clube de Goa made good use of the chances that came its way to score a 2-1 win over Kerala XI and enter the semifinals of the second E.K. Nayanar Memorial Gold Cup football tournament at the Municipal Jawahar Stadium here on Friday.

The Goans also did a favour to Ferroviaria, Sao Paulo, ensuring a semifinal berth for the Brazilian side as well, as Kerala XI, with its second loss in the four-team Group ‘A,’ has gone out of the tournament along with Mohammedan AC, Kolkata, which faces Ferroviaria on Saturday.

Fred Mascarenhas and Viera Fernandes scored for Sporting in the second-half, after local lad K.V. Kalesh, who was named Man of the Match, put Kerala XI ahead in the first. — Principal Correspondent