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Utkal University (Bhubaneswar) has qualified for the All-India Inter-University Football Tournament after a long gap of 15 years. Led by Seikh Sajid, Utkal achieved the feat by emerging champions in the Group-C of the Central Zone Inter-University Tournament held at Gwalior (MP) from October 7 to 11.
Utkal prevailed over Rani Durgavati University (Jabalpur) 3-2 in the hard-fought final. Earlier, Utkal thrashed Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur 2-0 and Pundit Ravishankar Shukla University (Raipur) 1-0 to qualify for the final. The All-India Inter-University Football Tournament is scheduled to be held at Kottayam in Kerala from November 25.
UTKAL TEAM: Seikh Sajid (captain), Bighnesh Kumar Mallick, Budhia Singh, Rameswar Padhi, Surajbhanu Panda, Golak Bihari Pradhan, Jitendra Hembram, Gobind Behera, Tofan Nayak, Bijay Kumar Barik, Prakash Kumar Tarai, Jagannath Barik, Rabinda Majhi, Lincon Sahu, Sanjay Fatesingh, Sibaram Behera. Coach: Bijay Kumar Rout; Manager: Pradip Kumar Samantasinghar.
