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Kathmandu Wednesday January 09, 2002 Paush 25, 2058.
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Rayamajhi guides Jorpati to VDC Cup win
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 8 : Prompted by Nirajan Rayamajhi’s
hat-trick, Jorpati clinched the Pushpalal Memorial Inter-VDC Cup defeating New Naikap 8-3
in the title match played at the Dashrath Stadium on Monday.
Rayamajhi, making good use of his international exposure,
netted a total of four goals in the match that had little to offer to the audience in
terms of excitement. The match, more or less, seemed to be a one-sided affair for the
winning team.
Jorpati boys hardly looked back after the New Naikap forwards
missed the golden chance in the first minute of the match to get one-up. New Naikap
forwards, as many as three of them, looked clueless even when the Jorpati ‘keeper was
fumbling with the ball in the very first minute of the match.
Once New Naikap missed the chance, Jorpati players started
waves of attacks against the lower-rung team. The attacks paid dividends in the 13th
minute when Rayamajhi converted the chance as it came off New Naikap goalie’s block,
in one of the Jorpati attacks. Rayamajhi came back again in the 27th minute to double his
personal score, two minutes after Gokul Sunuwar had doubled the Jorpati lead.
Rayamajhi struck twice again in the 18th and 29th minutes of
the second half. However, his best one was his second, which came in the 27th minute of
the game. Receiving the pass just in front of the New Naikap penalty area, he wasted no
time in adjusting himself as he rounded it off the ‘keeper at an angle which not many
would be able to score at. The New Naikap goalie hardly had any time or speed and
helplessly saw it flying past him.
Sunuwar also found the nets once more in the match. Ranjit
Lama and Ramesh Lama also scored one goal each to be registered among the goalscorers of
the match.
The match, although a loss, was far from a humiliation for
New Naikap team as they scored three goals. Bijay Maharjan, Shiva Tandukar and Shailendra
Thapa finished the match with one goal apiece.
Thapa’s goal, the last one for the day, was perhaps the
best of the match. Thapa’s 25-yarder left-footed shot powered its way to the nets as
the Jorpati ‘keeper kept gazing at it in amazement. There was hardly anything he
could have done to save it.
Rayamajhi, for his 9 goals in the tournament, was awarded as
the best player of the tournament. The winners trophy also carried a purse of Rs 50,000 as
the runners-up collected Rs 35,000.
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