FreeKick 2006 – Here we go Ale Ale Ale!!!
August 21


Students at BIM are known to do something new everytime the routine sets in. This time the SportsCom of BIM 23 along with BIM 22 have organized the first ever an all night match football tournament FreeKick 2006. The tournament began on 21st August 2006 with Prof Ramesh Venkatraman, the chief guest for the kick off. Prof Ramesh Venkatraman stressed how healthy mind in a healthy body is important for future managers.

The tournament has 9 teams participating from PGP I and PGP II. Each team has a squad of 11 players and 8 out of those 11 take to the field. Each half has a duration of 25 minutes. 4 matches were played on the inaugural day at East end gardens football ground.

The first match was between Blitzkrieg and Cavaliers. Easily the most entertaining match with a lot of tension and drama, the match ended in a draw with both teams scoring 4 goals each. The goalkeeper of Blitzkrieg, Pushpreet S Dua opened the yellow card account of the tournament for over-aggression towards the referee. The match was full of events all through the 50 minutes of play.

The 2nd match of the evening was played between Penalty United and Marines United started after a delay of about 1 hour due to a power failure. Thanks to efforts of the EB department of BHEL and the SportsCom the play was possible. Penalty United led by Bhavesh Vikramaditya were down 2 goals for most of the match but came back strongly towards the end of the second half to score 3 magnificent goals in a rush and took the match 3-2.

In the next match that began after midnight saw Trojans taking on the Headbangers. Headbangers who came to the field dressed in formals were sent back to change and come in the sports gear or face disqualification. Arun Chacko, Mohan Raja and Elango of Trojans took apart and destroyed the non existent defense of Headbangers. Arun Chacko scored 6 goals and Mohan Raja scored 4 goals. The final score was 11-0 in favor of Trojans.

The last match of the night that started at 1.45 am was between Real Mad-Ride and Khaleej United. This match also seemed like heading in the same direction as the previous one as Real Mad-Ride kept on finding the back of the goal very often. The defense of Khaleej United was in a confused state not knowing how to stop the forwards of Real Mad-Ride. DJ of Khaleej United struck a superb goal which left Suprabhat the goalie of Real Mad-Ride stunned, sadly it was the only goal for Khaleej United. The final score for this match was Real Mad- Ride beating Khaleej United by 10-1. Almost everyone in the Real Mad-Ride team scored a goal.