Date:09/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/09/stories/2008080955901700.htm

Sport - Football

Divyanshi to lead Delhi

NEW DELHI: Divyanshi will lead a 20-member Delhi team in the fifth National girls’ (under-17) football championship beginning at Haldwani, in Uttarakhand, on Saturday.

Delhi plays Nagaland in its opening match on August 11. In the inaugural match on Saturday, Puduherry will take on Manipur. The final is slated for August 26.

The eight clusters for the league are: Cluster I: Manipur, Puducherry and Jharkhand; Cluster II: Orissa, Tripura and Karnataka; Cluster III: Mizoram, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra; Cluster IV: Tamil Nadu, Nagaland and Delhi; Cluster V: Goa, Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir; Cluster VI: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat; Cluster VII: Bengal, Assam and Chandigarh; Cluster VIII: Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Kerala.

The Delhi team: Goalkeepers: Priya Jain (vice-capt.) and Pramilla; defenders: Annapurna, Shivangi Sharma, Divyanshi (capt.), Maya, Anjali Pandey, Mega and Sakshi Dhama; midfielders: Anshu Malik, Charu, Mona, Monu, Neha, Shrutika Misra; forwards: Nisha, Deepika, Mudita Bisht, Priyam Rawat, Priyanka Pundir; coach: Sonia Gaur; manager: Bachi Ram. — Special Correspondent