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At the BRICS U-17 Football Tournament, Goa, India

India l Brazil 1-3 (1-2)
Goal Scored - Komal Thatal (BRA) 19' and Brenner Silva (BRA) 2', Marcos Santos (BRA) 30', Vinicius Oliviera (BRA) 82'

Our u-16 boys gave spirited performance against mighty Brazilian boys ensuring their competitiveness ... Brazil took lead in 2nd minute but equalized through Komal in 19th minute ... Brazil regained their lead in 30th minute ... In the second half we had coupe of opportunity but failed to take those chances ... Brazil scored their 3rd goal in 82nd minute and mach ended in their favor ... Interestingly India hosted Brazil for the first time in their Footballing history in any age group.

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At the BRICS U-17 Football Tournament, Goa, India

India l China 0-1 (0-0)
Goal Scored - Huang Cong (CHN) 90'

Another loss with solitary goal for our u-16 team, this time against Chinese boys ... Again our boys showed fighting performance on the field ... They were matching opponents and managed to create chances but failed to score ... Other hand Chinese boys defended well and scored in dying minutes for a win ... In this tournaments our lack of scoring is costing us dearly.

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At the BRICS U-17 Football Tournament, Goa, India

India l South Africa 0-1 (0-1)
Goal Scored - Ndamolelo Radzilani (RSA) 23'

Indian U-16 National Team lost their second match of the BRICS U-17 Football Tournament as the Colts went down fighting 0-1 against South Africa ... Radzilani’s 23rd minute header was enough to secure three points for the South Africans ... After that India pressed hard for the equalizer and even after the German Coach made two attacking changes, the boys could not find the decisive goal and the South African defence stood strong to see out the match.

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At the BRICS U-17 Football Tournament, Goa, India

India l Russia 0-1 (0-1)
Goal Scored - Daniil Lopatin (RUS) 3'

Our boys are in chance of getting really good experience against these top teams with first BRICS nations tournament ... In the first match our boys lost narrowly against Russian u-17 team ... Russians scored early in the match due to our defensive goof-up but afterwards our boys also managed to create chances ... In the early second half Russians reduced to 10 men but our boys failed to take advantage ... They defended really well despite didn't have a single chance on our goal.

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At AFC u-16 Championship, Goa, India

Group A
India l Iran 0-3 (0-1)
Goal Scored - Mohammad Gharedi (IRI) 26', Mohammad Sharifi (IRI) 81' P and 90+' P

Iranian boys proved stronger team than our boys on the field ... We managed to hold them in the first half where they managed to score only one goal ... But in the beginning of the second half Boris Singh received his second yellow card of the match so we played with 10 players for last 35 minutes ... Still we hold them till 80' minute ... Iranian skipper scored 2 goals through penalty in last ten minutes for comfortable win for them ... So after this loss we r out of quarter final contention.

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At AFC u-16 Championship, Goa, India

Group A
India dw Saudi Arabia 3-3 (2-1)
Goal Scored - Aniket Jadhav (IND) 6', Aman Chetri (IND) 23', Suresh Singh 90+' P and Aldhuwayhi (KSA) 36', Albrikan (KSA) 82' and 83'

In both matches our boys struggled in last 20-25 mins ... Our high-energy style of game took toll on our players ... Today we were lucky as we managed to squeeze penalty in dying seconds for equalizer ... In this match first 30 mins we dominated but after that Saudi was better team on the field.

In this match Indians started usual dominant style scoring two goals in first 25 minutes ... After that Saudi hit back with their controlled game and our boys struggled in later part of the match ... But in end survived with their never die attitude for earning penalty of last kick of the match.

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At AFC u-16 Championship, Goa, India

Group A
India l United Arab Emirates 2-3 (2-1)
Goal Scored - Sanjeev Stalin 13', Boris Thangjam (IND) 35' and Manea Aydh (UAE) 34', Majid Rashid (UAE) 54', Ahmad Fawzi (UAE) 75'

Iran bt Saudi Arabia 3-2

Our boys lost their match despite dominating most of the part with their high energy game ... UAE fought back two times from goal down to win it ... We took early lead through excellent indirect free kick from outside the D from Sanjeev ... On 34th mins we conceded penalty through reckless tackle but our goal-keeper saved ... We conceded corner and UAE scored through Manea Aydh due to poor marking by our defender ... Our team immediately responded in 30 secs through Boris Thangjam ... So at half-time we were in lead 2-1 ... In the second half despite chances we failed to score ... UAE scored another goal after mistake by our defenders ... Aman Chetri headed over from close in before the hour-mark ... But our high-energy approach appeared to take its toll as the half wore on and UAE went in front for the first time on 74 minutes, again mistake from defenders and goal-keeper ... After that UAE defended well for a win.

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At FIFA International Friendly 2016, Mumbai, India

India bt Puerto Rico 4-1 (3-1)
Goal Scored - Narayan Das (IND) 18’, Sunil Chhetri (IND) 26’, Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 34’, Jackichand Singh (IND) 58’ and Emmanuel Sanchez (PUR) 8' PS

In this match Puerto Rico team was without 5-6 regulars from first team as their respective European/ South American clubs didn't release them for this International friendly ... Puerto Rico team reached late for this tie due to goof-up in their flight schedule ... But I think these weren't only reasons for their loss ... Our team executed Constantine's plan perfectly on the field ... Impressed with our improved passing, our midfielders looked good, our wingers managed to give some good crosses, strikers looks improved and Gurpreet was amazing in-front of the goal ... I think this was Jeje's 7th goal in 7 matches so some terrific hot streak is going on ... I am also impressed with our dead ball skill, Constantine is working on that and Sunil Chhetri is responding with some smart/ opportunist dead ball kicking ... Still need lot of work on our defending but today's was deserving win against WR #114 Puerto Rico.

First 10 mins Puerto Rico team was superb and in that they scored a goal through spot kick but after that Indians raised their game and also played with high intensity ... We scored three excellent goals in psan of 17 minutes for taking full control of the match ... At half-time we were 3-1 leading which could be more ... We added one more goal in the second half and then gave more time on the field for our bench ... Gurpreet Singh Sandhu showed his experience of playing in Europe, he was solid in-front of the goal ... Stephen Constantin is working hard on this team and positive results are showing as we have now registered nine wins in their last eleven matches.

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At FIFA International Friendly 2016, Thimphu, Bhutan

Bhutan l India 0-3 (0-3)
Goal Scored - Sumit Passi (ND) 15', Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 18', Holicharan Narzary (IND) 21'

Dominating win by India against Bhutan ... India took control of the match scoring 3 goals in first 20 minutes ... And kept that lead through out the match for comfortable win.

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At 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers - Play-off, Guwahati, India

India bt Laos 6-1 (2-1)
Goal Scored -Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 43' and 74', Sumeet Passi (IND) 45+', Sandesh Jhingan (IND) 48', Mohammed Rafique (IND) 83' and Fulganco Cardozo (IND) 87' and Khonesavanh Sihavong (LAO) 16'

India came back strongly after conceding early to beat Laos 6-1 (7-1 aggregate) to book their place in the final round of qualifying for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup ... Jeje Lalpekhlua’s brace and Jackichand Singh’s impact after coming off the bench helped India make it into the third round of 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers ... This was good comeback after down 0-1 in first 20 minutes ... Also after nine years our team managed to score six goals in a match, before this in 2007 we scored six goals against Cambodia.

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At 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers - Play-off, Vientiane, Laos

Laos l India 0-1 (0-0)
Goal Scored -Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 54'

Indians score important win over Laos and are now on verge of qualifying for Asian cup qualifiers ... Indians dominated match but needed to wait till an almost hour mark for taking lead through excellent header from Jeje on Udanta Singh assist ... After that we kept that lead for completing victory ... The Indian side will now go into the June 7 home tie in Guwahati in an advantageous position.

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At World Cup pre-qualifier Asia, Kochi, India

Group D
India l Turkmenistan 1-2 (1-0)
Goal Scored - Sandesh Jhingan (IND) 27' and Arslanmyrat Amanov (TRK) 49', Serdaraly Ataýew (TRK) 70'

In their last group match also Indian side lose against Turkmenistan ... Though in this match Indians took early lead and managed to keep it till half-time ... But Turkmenistan kept their composure and kept trying, they equalized within first 5 minutes of second half ... And winner in 70 minutes so with this loss we finish on last spot in group D.

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At World Cup pre-qualifier Asia, Tehran, Iran

Group D
India l Iran 0-4 (0-1)
Goal Scored - Ehsan Hajsafi (IRI) 33' P and 66' P, Sardar Azmoun (IRI) 61' and Alireza Jahanbakhsh (IRI) 78'

Our boys kept Iran at bay for much of the first half until a needless challenge in the box opened the floodgates ... Overall disappointing performance by Indians after first 30 minutes against young Iranian side.

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At the SAFF Championship 2015, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Final
India bt Afghanistan 2-1 AET (0-0)
Goal Scored - Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 72', Sunil Chhetri (IND) 101' and Zubayr Amiri (AFG) 70'

Stephen Constantine wins his first title in his second stint as the coach of India as our boys fought back to beat Afghans in entertaining final ... In the first half both teams missed chances so score remain goalless ... In the second half Afghanistan broke the deadlock in the 70th minute but we responded immediately in two minutes when Jeje scored on Chhetri's header ... In extra time Indians started well but Afghans fought back and increase pressure but Chhetri scored goal on quick free-kick yo give lead to India ... In second extra-time half our players missed couple of chances ... Umpires also missed to give penalty to Afghans when Mondal handled the ball inside penalty area ... In injury time Jeje fouled Hatifie inside penalty area and again Referee denied penalty for Afghan ... With this we won SAFF title after four years ... In 2013 Afghanistan defeated us 2-0.