After a lacklustre first half at Nehru stadium in Goa, Churchill got the all-important goal in the 62nd minute through Raju D.
Mboyo Iyomi's spectacular strike enabled Churchill Brothers, Goa, edge out ten-man East Bengal and catch up leaders Dempo Sports Club on points in the I-league on Sunday.
The two supposedly best teams in the country dished out the most drab goalless draw in the I-League football championship at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
A striker always remains a striker is what David Trezeguet showed when he rolled back all those years with an opportunistic strike to help FC Pune City register their maiden win beating FC Goa by 2-0 in the Hero Indian Super League on Sunday.
He scored both the goals in a 2-1 victory over Tollygunge Aggragami in the National Football League.
Brazilian soccer great Zico formally declared his candidacy for the FIFA presidency on Wednesday but admitted there would probably need to be a change of rules in order to make his run viable.
The Mumbai champions were unimpressive in a 1-1 draw with the Goa side in the National Football League.
Mahindra United clinched their maiden National Football League title after East Bengal lost to Sporting Club de Goa 1-3.
"The team has gelled well as a team and we are looking forward to do well this time. I have seen that the team players are disciplined, physically strong and most importantly they are eager and ready to learn more about football.
Dempo's Coach Armando Colaco said if Junior had been taken to the nearby Mallya hospital, he could have been saved.
Former champions Salgaocar wasted several chances and had to be content with a point from the National Football League match.
A narrow 1-0 win was not enough for a desperate Mumbai City FC who were knocked out by FC Goa 5-2 on aggregate in the Hero Indian Super League semi-final at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Margao, on Tuesday.
Dempo beat HASC, Bangalore 1-0 to move into the quarterfinals of Fed Cup football tournament.
Nigerian striker Ranti Martins scored the only goal of the final as the Goa team beat JCT 1-0.
JCT play Group I runners-up Sporting Clube de Goa while Dempo take on Group I winners Mohun Bagan in Saturday's semi-finals.
The AFC team, who were on a two days visit to Goa, were satisfied with the infrastructure and administrative set up of all the three Goan I-League clubs, as part of the assessment criteria for classification as professional clubs.
FC Goa have signed Sergio Lobera Rodriguez as the head coach on a two-year deal and he will take over the reins from the first week of July.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
The defending champions started their campaign in the second leg of the NFL with a resounding 3-0 win over JCT Mills
Twice in arrears, the former champions held Churchill Brothers to a 2-2 draw in an NFL match.
Trailing 0-2 till the 74th minute the soldiers fought back for a 2-2 draw in the Durand Cup football quarter-final league.
Abdul Hakkim's goal gave the Kerala side a 1-0 victory over Everready in the Second Division National Football League.\n\n
A 2-1 victory kept Dempo in contention for the National Football League title.
The Kolkata giants take on the Bangladesh side in the AFC Cup Group A league match on Wednesday.
A brace Roberto Mendes Silva helped Bagan to a 4-1 win over JCT Phagwara to enter the semi-finals of the Federation Cup.
In other matches in the under-19 National Football League, JCT and Indian Bank, and East Bengal and Tollygunge Agragami drew goalless.
Yusif Yakubu scored a brace for the Goa side in a 2-1 victory in the NFL.
A 3-2 victory kept the IFA Shield winners on top of the National Football League.
A 2-1 victory took the Goa side two points adrift of leaders East Bengal in the National Football League.
Tandon said that Ferrando left no room for discussion.
The victory took Dempo to the second place in the National Football League
A goalless draw with Churchill Brothers in a 11th round match in the National Football League saw them finsh with 22 points, one more than East Bengal.
The Mumbai champions won 3-0 for their fifth victory in nine matches in the National Football League.\n\n
The speedy striker got both goals as Dempo beat JCT 2-0 in a National Football League match in Ludhiana.
The Kolkata giants made sure of the title, beating Vasco 4-0 in their penultimate match of the NFL.
His brace of goals gave the Goa side a 2-1 victory over JCT in the\n\nNational Football League.
A fine brace by Brazilian striker Marcos Pereira gave the Goa side full points in the National Football League match.\n\n
FC Goa co-owners Srinivas Dempo and Dattaraj Salgaocar withdrew their stakes from the franchise, on Friday, surprisingly soon after the Indian Super League Appeals Panel lifted the ban on the duo for "bringing disrepute" to the tournament following last year's final.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday.
FIFA presidential candidate Zico believes that the rules for electing the head of soccer's governing body are unfair, outdated and subject voting federations to outside pressure.
