Governor's Gold Cup: J&K Want to Win Hearts

Jammu & Kashmir Bank's Coach Mr. Abdul Majeed was impressed with his team's performance on the day which saw them beat USSC, and also had a few good words to say about the atmosphere all around Gangtok...

Triumphant after comprehensively beating the home side, JK Bank coach Abdul Majeed said that they are here to win the hearts of the Sikkimese people by playing entertaining football.

“It’s a great pleasure to play in the Gold Cup at Sikkim for the first time. We want to win the hearts of Sikkimese people with our football”, said Majeed.

Commenting on the match, Majeed said that he knew his side will win although everyone believed that United Sikkim Sporting Club was a better side. “Everyone said that USSC will win as they were a good team with four Nigerian recruits. We waited for them to show their game in the first halt and went on the counter attack in the second half which fetched us two gaols”, he said.

Majeed is a former Indian football team captain and has played for several years with East Bengal and Mohan Bagan. “We knew we are against a competitive team and hence we arrived here two days ago to get acclimatized”, he added. Regarding his side, Majeed said that several leading players have come out from his club. “Everyone knows the turmoil Jammu and Kashmir is in and we don’t get the proper environment to develop our football. But we are here to win the hearts of Sikkim”, he said.

On the other hand, USSC coach Sherap Lepcha rued the missed opportunities by his players which played a major role in today’s loss. We missed a lot of chances and couple of them were sitters, he said. “It was their (JK Bank) day”, Lepcha said.

With this loss of USSC, Sikkim Police is the only other local team left in the competition and they take on two time Gold Cup champions BSF (Jhalandar) tomorrow.

Source:Goal.com