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pre-Olympic qualifier

India lose to Turkmenistan in
pre-Olympic qualifier

Source: PTI
April 06, 2003 13:33 IST
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India went down to Turkmenistan 0-2 in a first-leg match in the first round Asian pre-Olympic football qualifiers, for the 2004 Athens Olympics, at Ashkhabad in Turkmenistan, on Saturday.

The defeat jolted India's chances of a place in the second round, where the winner of the tie plays Malaysia.

The Indian under-23 team now faces a tough task when it meets Turkmenistan in the return match in at Goa on April 19.

In a keenly-contested match, which remained goaless till the last quarter, Azad Mohadov put the hosts ahead in the 75th minute before a penalty-kick, converted by Karimov, in injury time made the scoreline 2-0.

The Indian team: Sangram Mukherjee, Arun Malhotra, Satish Bharti (captain), Vinu Jose, Dipankar Roy, Sukhwinder Singh (Harpreet Singh), Jatin Singh Bisht (Ishfaq Ahmed), Manitombi Singh, Tomba Singh, Asim Biswas, Alex Ambrose (Sheikh Sanjeeb).

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