LAHORE – Multan won the Punjab U15 boys football cup title when they edged out Sahiwal 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out here at Punjab Stadium on Wednesday night under lights.
Punjab Sports Minister Taimoor Khan and Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Aamir Jan were the guests of honour at a grand closing ceremony and distributed prizes among the prominent performers of the championship.
Both the teams exhibited a wonderful fighting game in the stipulated time and thwarted several attempts on the goal post in both sessions. After the goal-less 90-minute play, both the finalist teams were given five penalty kicks each to decide the outright winner of the championship.
Multan boys showed more accuracy in the penalty shoot-outs and converted all of their five kicks into goals. However, Sahiwal’s SaqlainManzoor failed to find the net and struck his shot on the goalpost giving their opponents 5-4 triumph in the title clash.
Multan, the winners of the tournament, were awarded trophy and cash prize of Rs 1,80,000 while the runners-up Sahiwal pocketed trophy and Rs 90,000 cash prize.
Multan’s Adnan Justin was adjudged best player of the tournament, Lahore’s Awais was declared best goalkeeper, Sahiwal’s Hammad remained top scorer while the award of fair-play went to Faisalabad team.
