Delay hits MSSA's inter-school football competitions
Updated On: 01 August, 2022 07:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Gordon D’Costa
MSSA unable to commence football tournaments as ground remains occupied with Metro work; sports body urges authorities, schools to provide venues
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The Metro construction work in progress at the MSSA ground in Azad Maidan yesterday. Pic/Ashish Raje
The start of the Mumbai Schools’ Sports Association (MSSA) inter-school football competitions that could not be held for the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been delayed this year due to the non-availability of the ground at Azad Maidan. MSSA last organised their tournaments in the 2019-20 season. “At the moment, we [MSSA] do not have a ground for the children to play on,” MSSA football secretary Sebastian Fernandes told mid-day on Sunday.
‘MMRC boss positive’
The MSSA ground was taken over by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) in 2019 for construction of the metro. “We met MMRC Executive Director [Planning & Land Acquisition] R Ramanan and requested him to provide us an alternate ground since they have occupied our ground. He [Ramanan] was positive and agreed to help us,” said Fernandes.
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