Zahira College, Colombo emerge runner up of Ball Blaster Football Championship

The Zahira College Colombo emerged runner up by losing to Alighar National School Eravur Batticalao on penalties ( 5/4 ) in an interesting final of The Ball Blaster “under 20 all Island division 1 football championship 2023, sponsored by srilankankansportstv, organised and conducted by the Sri-Lanka Schools Football Association, under the guidance of the Ministry of Education, played at the Sugathadasa Stadium last Monday.

The final was scheduled on 10th Sunday and the match was played on time, due to heavy rain after 10 minutes of play, the officials decided to call off the match and to be replayed on the next day (Monday) to decide the champions of “ The Ball Blaster” 2023. The final ending in a thrilling nil all draw and with the decision on penalties, Zahira College Colombo striker missing the second penalty kick ended them as the runner up.

Zahira College Colombo drawn from group “B” along with Baduriya Central College Mawanella, Muslim Central College Kalutara, Jaffna Central College and Alighar National School Eravur Batticalao emerged as the Champions in the respective group. Qualifying to the knock out stage, they beat Zahira College Gampola by 6 goals to nil in the quarter final and qualifying to the semi final, they beat Darussalam College Colombo by 3 goals to 2 in a thrilling contest to qualify for the final. Zahira College Colombo meeting Alighar National School also in the same group in the final, where they beat them in league match, unfortunately lost the game on penalties.

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