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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Thursday,January 8, 2004 19 CAPITAL SPORT Saurav wins British U-19 title DSA trials: The Delhi Milan snap Roma’s dream run Chennai: Saurav Ghosal became the Soccer Asociation is hold- INDIANS ABROAD Reuters first Indian ever to win the coveted ing an open trial cum British Junior Open U-19 Squash ti- Pakistan in the quarterfinals, was coaching camp for the se- SOCCER ROUNDUP made to look a pale shadow of him- lection of the Delhi U-21 tle, defeating Adel El Said of Egypt in Milan: European champions AC Milan the final at Sheffield in England. self. team for the M Dutta Roy ended Serie A leaders AS Roma’s unbeaten Saurav is based at the ICL squash trophy scheduled to kick- Aaccording to information re- run on Tuesday, Andriy Shevchenko scor- academy in Chennai. It was also the off in Haryana. Players can ceived from the Squash Rackets Fed- contact the DSA office- ing both goals in an impressive 2-1 victory eration of India here on Wednesday, first time that India had finalists in bearers at the venue after in the capital. 17-year-old Saurav beat his Egyptian both boys (U-19) and girls U-19 sec- 3.30pm. A thundering 25-metre strike from Euro- rival 9-0, 9-6, 9-1. tions. pean footballer of the year Pavel Nedved Saurav, seeded five, broke the In the girls final, India’s top player TT rankings: Rajiv Ghai gave Italian champions Juventus a 1-0 win stranglehold of Egypt and Pakistan Joshna Chinappa, seeded three, of Indian Oil and Neha Ag- over Perugia moving them within three at this championship with the em- fought hard against Egyptian top garwal of Manav Sthali points of AS Roma. phatic win over Adel El Said and be- seed Omneya Abdel Kawy but lost 4- have been top ranked in Roma, who were unbeaten in their previ- came the first Indian to win the title 9, 0-9, 7-9. the men’s and women’s ous 14 games this season, still lead Serie A since its inception in 1980. ‘‘We ended last year with outstand- singles respectively in Delhi on 36 points from Juventus and Milan on 33, The 17-year-old Saurav outplayed ing results in the Scottish Junior for the year 2003. Neha although Milan have a game in hand. his six-foot opponent who was caught Open in December and have started has also been top ranked Fourth-placed Inter Milan came from be- on the wrong foot time and again. the year with an incredibly fine in sub-junior girls and girls hind to beat Lecce 3-1 at the San Siro with Adel El Said, who had accounted achievement’’ Ramachandran, SRFI section, a DTTA press re- second-half goals from Julio Ricardo Cruz, for the top seed Khalid Atlas of Secretary General, said. PTI lease informed on Tuesday. Ivan Cordoba and Christian Vieri’s 100th The following are the complete strike for the club. seedings: Men’s singles: 1. Rajiv Ghai, 2. Himansh P Kala, 3. Nitin Ma- But Lazio, who had won their last three hajan, 4. Rajat Chopra; Women’s sin- games, suffered a setback, losing 2-1 to Reg- gles: 1. Neha Aggarwal, 2. Ekta gina after taking a first-half lead through Bhambri, 3. Shikha Sharma, 4. Esha Bhambri; Boys singles: 1. Sunal Fabio Liverani. Jain, 2. Nishank Bajaj, 3. Varun Jin- Former European player of the year dal, 4. Vishal Aggarwal; Girls singles: Roberto Baggio scored twice for Brescia in 1. Neha Aggarwal, 2. Shikha Sharma, 3. Esha Monga, 4. Jeshita Bhushan. their 4-2 win over Siena. Villa jump to sixth spot: Aston Villa Archery team: Rajeev jumped to sixth in the English premier Kumar Rana of Satyawanti league on Tuesday after beating promoted College will lead the Delhi Portsmouth 2-1 with goals from Juan Pablo University team in the All Angel and Darius Vassell. India inter-varsity archery Angel scored in the 22nd minute, heading (men and women) champi- home a cross from Gareth Barry. onships to be held at the Osmania University, Hyder- Lively Portsmouth looked likely to steal a abad from January 10-14. point after equalising in the 49th minute Aston Villa’s Peter Crouch (L) challenges Portsmouth’s Linvoy Primus (R) during their Team: Men: Indian Round: Rajeev through Yakubu Ayegbeni. English match at Villa Park on Tuesday. Kumar Rana, Pradeep Sharma, Hari- But Darius Vassell claimed Villa’s winner nath Tiwari, Harvinder. Fita Round: main fifth from bottom a point clear of the lieved to be 8 million pounds - for the Ravinder Sharama, Jayanti in the 83rd minute after a goalmouth melee Lal,Preetinder Singh, Rajwant Singh. during which the ball rebounded off sever- relegation zone. French striker. But Coleman claims United Women: Indian Round: Meena Ku- al players. Coleman blasts Ferguson: Fulham man- manager Alex Ferguson is trying to unset- mari, Kiran, Pratibha, Champa.Fita ager Chris Coleman has accused Manches- tle his player.“You get that feeling that we Round: Manisha, Mannu Kumari, Vid- The result allowed Villa to leapfrog city hata, Shalini. rivals , Southampton, Newcas- ter United of trying to “bully” them into are being bullied into selling one of our tle and Liverpool who all play on Wednes- selling 14-goal French striker Louis Saha. players, I don’t like bullies and I don’t like Fulham chairman Mohamed al Fayed has being bullied, that is why we want to hang Under-14 soccer: The day in the premier league. inaugural Kangaroo Cup in Harry Redknapp’s Portsmouth side re- already ruled out a renewed approach - be- on to Saha,” Coleman said. Agencies the U-14 and U-17 section will be held at the Ambed- kar Stadium from January Beckham may sit out 15-30. Interested teams are requested to be in Madrid: is day’s home win over Murcia touch with DSA secretary doubtful for Real Madrid’s in a collision with Argentine NK Bhatia at 9811447274. league game with Real So- Jose Luis ciedad this weekend after Acciari. BL Kashyap in finals: his gashed right ankle be- The injury has already BL Kashyap & Sons de- came infected, the club said ruled the star midfielder out feated HUDCO in the semi- Wednesday. of Madrid’s Copa del Rey finals of the 7th DG Phad- Madrid said on its Web visit to second-division kar Memorial cricket tour- site that Beckham was being Eibar on Wednesday. Agencies nament by 10 runs to enter treated with antibiotics, the final. Brief scores: BK Kashyap & Sons: adding the four stitches in 110 all out in 19.5 overs (Godwin his ankle had yet to be re- Toppo 2/11). HUDCO: 100 for 9 in 20 moved. Beckham suffered overs (Ramesh Negi 47). the wound during Satur-

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