Kathmandu: Nepali Football team All set to play with India for Gold medal of Ongoing South Asian Games Today at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Guwahati, India, 7:15 pm NST.
Nepali team sailed into the finals defeating Maldives 4-3 in sensational semifinal match two days ago . Nepal star player Nawayug Shrestha scored hat-trick, his second in the tournament, to rescue 10-man Nepal that were lagging 2-3 in the extra-time. Shrestha scored two goals in the dying moments of the crucial fixture to complete his hat-trick.
Nepali U-23 football team's head coach Raju Kaji Shakya is eying gold medal for the country in the South Asian Games. Nepal’s previous South Asian Games football gold medals came at home in 1984 with a 4-2 victory over Bangladesh and against India on penalties after a 2-2 stalemate in Dhaka in 1993. Nepal’s current coach Raju Kaji Shakya was the skipper of the side that won the gold in 1993. Having been a part of the national team in 1984, Shakya is now keen to rewrite history in a different role. “We had always wanted to defeat India in their backyard and that opportunity has knocked on our doors,” he said on the eve of the match.
Nepal squad: Anjan Bista, Bimal Gharti Magar, Nawayug Shrestha, Ranjan Bista, Sunil Bal, Suman Lamaa Man Bahadur Tamang, Kamal Shrestha, Bikram Lama, Bishal Rai, Heman Gurung, Jagajeet Shrestha, Bikesh Kuthu, Alan Neupane, Amrit Chaudhary, Aditya Chaudhary, Ananta Tamang, Biraj Maharjan (C), Dinesh Rajbansi, Prakash Budhathoki,
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