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A 19-member Orissa squad, led by Jharsuguda forward Pinky Bompal Magar, left here on Tuesday to participate in an all-India women``s football tournament being organised by Deva Sports Club at Pondichery.
Orissa will play their first match against Chhattisgarh on July 10, a release from Odisha State Women``s Football Association said on Wednesday. Altogether eight teams have joined the tournament. Other six teams inlcude Friends of the Stadium Club (WB), Salebham Sports Academy (TN), Sports Club The Goa, Pondichery XI, Dindigul District Football Association (TN) and Madhya Pradesh. Chitrasen Patra and Kaliprasad Sinha have accompanied the team as coach and manager respectively.
