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Kathmandu Tuesday October 03, 2000 Aswin 17, 2057.
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Baba National Sports Club
on the go
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 2- Baba National Sports Club
(BNSC) established a few months ago with a clear cut motive of promoting sports to the
best extent possible is already making its presence felt. After a successful performance
in the Independence Cup football Championship at Gangtok where the team finished a
creditable second, the team is now preparing to take part in another prestigious
tournament--All India Governers Gold Cup football tournament in Gangtok. In fact the
overall performance of the team was so pleasing that BNSC received automatic invitation to
play in the prestigious tournament. The team leaves on 10th Oct for the championship that
is scheduled to be held from 11th Oct -23rd Oct.
The intention of the club, by participating
in such championship is to provide the budding footballers a platform from where they can
establish their credentials as international players of repute, says Shyamal Pal, the
General Secretary of the Club."The exposure of these players at regular intervals
with quality international players in tournaments like the Gold Cup may enhance their
chances of signing lucrative contracts with reputed teams," says Pal.
BNSC also has the credit of organising the
first ever Inter School National Football tournament, the first leg of which held in
Dharan has already concluded and the second leg to be played in Pokhara and the final
round in Kathmandu will be held shortly.
Apart from promoting football, the BNSC
aims at promoting disciplines such as swimming, taekwondo and handball. The BNSC, with
versatile National Swimming Coach Ishwore Karki as the President of the club has provided
sound support to the National and upcoming swimmers who are in their ranks viz. Nayana
Shakya, Alice Shrestha, Rajaram Manandhar, Raju Maharjan, Bibidha Rimal, Prem Rana, Rajiv
Chitrakar and some others. Some of these swimmers are already household names. These
swimmers will also be provided opportunities to train in centrally heated swimming pool at
the Indoor Talkotora Stadium in New Delhi.
The taekwondo players of the club who are
expertly trained by Dhirendra Shahi who is also an Executive Member of the club achieved
astounding success at the Ist Inter School Taekwondo Champioship conducted by Baba
Boarding High School last year. Jeetendra Lama, Ranjit Gurung and Dipendra Lama are
exciting talents for the future.
Similarly, BNSC has been chosen as the
platform by Nepal Handball Association for the upliftment of handball in the country.
Kamala Gurung, Tshering Sherpa, Monika Shrestha and Dahalmu Sherpa of BNSC represented
Nepal in the Asian Junior Handball championship held at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Some other members of the club include
Mahesh Dhungana as the Vice President, FIFA referee Shree Ram Ranjitkar as the Assistant
Secretary, Internationa Taekwondo Referee Amir Shrestha as the Executive Member and
renowned sports medicine expert Manohar Lal Shrestha as physician. |
