{"id":7892,"date":"2013-11-19T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/india-prove-too-strong-for-nepa\/"},"modified":"2019-12-14T08:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T02:37:59","slug":"india-prove-too-strong-for-nepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/india-prove-too-strong-for-nepa\/","title":{"rendered":"India prove too strong for Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Nilanjan Datta<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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\n India 2 (Sunil Chhetri \u2013 21st, Clifford Miranda \u2013 49th) beat Nepal 0
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\nDid he dream of it when he was a kid? Did he dream of it when he got his first call for the National Team? Did he dream of it the day he had scored his first International Goal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Indian National Team takes the field for the International Friendly against Nepal<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nMoments in a Man\u2019s life don\u2019t come that often. As Strikers, both Sunil and Bhaichung Bhutia have had more than the common man. But this moment for Sunil was different. Hands outstretched, that moment of solitude in front of an estimated Crowd of over 17000. That was his celebration as he went past Bhaichung as India\u2019s highest-ever goalscorer.<\/p>\n

The glowing lights at the Kanchenjunga Stadium ensured that Kanchenjunga, even in the dark, stayed a witness. After all, it was a historic moment for Indian Football.<\/p>\n

A goal each in both halves ensured India beat Nepal 2-0 in an one-sided International Friendly in Siliguri. If Sunil scored the first, Clifford Miranda scored the second in the 49th, perfectly finishing off a counter-attack in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n

Sunil scripted History in the 21st minute when India scored their first goal, which seemed inevitable till then. The movement started after Lalrindika Ralte found an unmarked Clifford Miranda on the left. Robin Singh, whose physical presence was a constant threat for Nepal neatly headed in Clifford\u2019s cross but couldn\u2019t beat an outstretched rival Goalkeeper Kiran Limbu. But an ice-cool Chhetri, following it up, slotted it home.<\/p>\n

By then, Victorino had already created an impression on the right. His sudden burst of pace caught the rival defence on the wrong foot twice. But the scoresheet didn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n

INDIA: Karanjit Singh; Denzil Franco, Arnab Mondal. Aiborlang Khongjee, Narayan Das (Debut for India); Francis Fernandes (Victorino Fernandes \u2013 75th), Mehtab Hossain, Lalrindika Ralte (Rocus Lamare \u2013 83rd), Clifford Miranda (CK VIneeth \u2013 85th), Sunil Chhetri (Captain), Robin Singh.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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 Nilanjan Datta  India 2 (Sunil Chhetri \u2013 21st, Clifford Miranda \u2013 49th) beat Nepal 0 Did he dream of it when he was a kid? Did he dream of it when he got his first call for the National Team? Did he dream of it the day he had scored his first International Goal? The Indian National Team takes the field for the International Friendly against Nepal Moments in a Man\u2019s life don\u2019t come that often. As Strikers, both Sunil and Bhaichung Bhutia have had more than the common man. But this moment for Sunil was different. Hands outstretched, that moment of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,169,166],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-aiff","tag-football","tag-sports","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59830,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/59830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}