India U-14 Girls excel in AFC football fest

New Delhi, May 07: Indian Under-14 Girls' team produced a commendable performance in the just concluded AFC Football Festival for South and Central Asia by winning six matches, losing and drawing once each in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The Indian girls started their campaign in the April 30-May 5 tournament with a thumping 9-0 victory over Bhutan, whom they again spanked 15-0 in their second meeting.

This was followed by a 3-1 win over Iran though they drew goal-less with the same opponents in the second match.

Indian girls also beat Sri Lanka 8-0 and then spanked 6-0 when they clashed again.

They suffered their only defeat when India went down to Jordan by a solitary goal, but took the sweet revenge by taming them 8-3 in the reverse encounter.

The Indians scored highest number of goals with Tanvi Bhargava producing 10 goals followed by Ronnie, Oshin and Prerna who found the net on nine occasions each.

The Indian team earned 21 Green Cards -- the maximum by any side -- which was given by taking into account the number of wins, draws and losses, number of goals scored for and against, fairplay points and skill level of players.