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Kashmir's
Baramulla goes into raptures, this time for right reasons
Tuesday July 17, 2012 07:58:55 PM,
Sheikh Qayoom,
IANS
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Baramulla: The
garrison town of Baramulla, which has been in news for all the
wrong reasons in recent years, Tuesday came alive cheering a Jammu
and Kashmir football team in a goodwill match against the
once-famed Kolkata's Mohammedan Sporting.
Over 10,000 football lovers watched the home team win the exciting
match by a solitary goal at the Prof. Showkat Ali Stadium in this
north Kashmir town.
The enthusiasm among the local youth and as well as old-timers was
at its peak when the J&K XI attacked the Sporting goal and every
move and shot was loudly cheered.
In the first half of the game, the J&K XI appeared to be battling
hard to keep the ball out of their half as the Sporting players
mounted pressure through their all out effort to score against the
local team that had defeated the visitors in Srinagar's Bakshi
Stadium Sunday.
In the second half of the match, exactly two minutes before the
final whistle, J&K XI's Ishfaq, wearing number eleven jersey took
the opponent's goalkeeper by surprise, shooting from just outside
the penalty area.
As Ishfaq netted the ball, the crowd at the stadium went into
raptures. Although Sporting tried their best, the equalizer did
not come as the referee blew the final whistle.
Violent mobs attacking security forces with stones, mobs resorting
to arson and blockade of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway, has
been the story of this town for years.
It is probably for the first time since separatist violence
started here in early 1990s that this town has seen so many
smiling faces of youth cheering and jeering for all the right
reasons.
Sports has finally done something for the town that politicians
have failed do many for years, bringing back the cheer and thrill
to the hearts of the local youth.
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