Date:09/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/09/stories/2008090961412000.htm

Sport - Football

Football tournament

CHENNAI: The Chennai Football Association has come forward to organise for the first time in the city a sponsored tournament for colleges with a prize money totalling Rs. 55,000 from September 10 to 22.

The event, to be conducted at the Pachaiyappas and Loyola colleges, is sponsored by N. Jayamurugan, proprietor of S.N.J. Distilleries in memory of his father S. Nagalingam Nadar.

In all entries of 18 colleges have been accepted, according to B. Ravikumar David, CFA President at a press meet on Monday. The winner would get the CFA-Nagalingam Nadar Memorial Trophy and Rs. 25,000. Based on how this tournament was received, the CFA and the sponsor would decide in due course whether this should be an annual event, he said.

The CFA Secretary E. Sugumaran said that the tournament would be conducted on a knock-out-cum-league-cum-knock-out format. — Special Correspondent