Portugal's fourth tier football club, Sintranese Sport Uniao overcame the India's national football team by a lone goal in a friendly match played at the Sporting Academy training ground at Lisbon on Thursday evening.
This was Indian team's first defeat after a hat-trick of wins at Portugal. Sintrense scored the winning goal in the 40th minute of the game. Trying to draw level, India could only manage to hit the bar through Baljit Sahni in the 65th minute.
Team India:
Playing Eleven: Subrata Pal, Surkumar Singh (Deepak Mondal), Gouramangi Singh (Mahesh Gawli), Anwar (Govin Singh), Rahim Nabi (N.S. Manju), Anthony Pereira (James Singh), NP Pradeep (Mehrajuddin Wadao), Renedy Singh (Rakesh Masih), Clifford Miranda, Abhishek Yadav (Baljit Sahni) , Mohammed Rafi (Sushil Kumar Singh)
Unused Substitutes: Arindam Bhattacharya , Subhasish Choudhary,, Steven Dias, Climax Lawrence, Samir Naik, Jagpreet Singh, N.S.Manju, Baldeep Singh
Image Courtesy: The AIFF Media
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Friday 6 August 2010, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.
Comments · 2
It's Portugal’s 2nd tier football club, not fourth tier next time be careful. Indian Team is not that bad ok............
Sintranese Sport Uniao is a club playing in Portugese third division (i.e. 4th tier)