NNWN / New Delhi, 2017-03-28

An NGO, My Home India, organised a first of its kind Fraternity Football Tournament in New Delhi’s Thyagaraj Sports Complex meant for north east region people. Model and Actor Dino Morea was present on the occasion and cheered young players during the tournament. Speaking on the occasion, My Home India president, Sunil Deodhar, said," It is a 12-year-old organisation and we aim to create awareness about the northeast across the country and provide a helpline to the people of the region in every part and corner of this country. We organise such a fraternity cup every year."

"In this fraternity tournament, many locals are also part of it. So, it basically brings youths from different parts of the country and provide them with a platform to strengthen their friendly relationship," he added.Morea said it is a great initiative and progranmme as such should be promoted far more. “It is all because you give people an opportunity to play sports and have fun and provide a platform to them to showcase their skills. It is exciting. I promote sports and fitness wherever possible, and hence, for me, I'm absolutely happy to be here and support the game," he said. "I think the youngsters should keep persevering and honestly the country should provide kids with more facilities. There is talent but no facilities and a match like this gives them some sort of hope that maybe in the future they can play for an international team and do really well," he added

According to him, "Sports, fitness is very important and for the northeast, they have lot of talent. They just need to go and make it happen. All the northeast kids grow up with football, so, they have the talent too certainly need to go and show it off".The nine-day-long tournament brought some young football aspirants into the limelight. Teams such as the Meghalaya FC, Sikkim FC, Manipur Student FC, KSO and NCR 11FC, Tangkhul FC and Kangla United FC etc., featured in the tournament. KSO was conferred with a cash prize of Rs.40,000 and a certificate. Manipur Student FC and Tangkhul FC were declared first and second runners-up and awarded with cash prizes of Rs.25,000 and Rs.15,000 respectively. The Best Player Award was won by Yarso Horam of Tangkhul FC. The top scorer award was conferred on Mawai of KSO and NCR 11. Yurthing of HAO FC was declared the best goalkeeper.