Ganguli beats Tendulkar in football - Atletico de Kolkata becomes ISL 1st champion

#AtleticodeKolkata #1stchampion #ISLfinal Atletico de Kolkata, the football team co-owned by Sourav Ganguli has become the 1st champion of the Indian Super League ISL by beating Tendulkar co-owned team Kerala Busters FC at the D Y Patil stadium in Mumbai.
The win came from a last minute goal from forward Mohammed Rafique of Atletico de Kolkata.
Till now, the game of cricket ruled the Indian sports scene and now, with the emergence of the ISL, football appears to have come into reckoning.
As Tendulkar has commented - ISL has got a terrific response and is a new platform and added that schools need to take the initiative and encourage children to take up sport at a young age. That way, the nation can become healthier nation this way. The idea should be to identify talent.
Sourav Ganguly was also upbeat about the game and termed the inaugural edition of ISL as a tremendous success. The crowd of around 65,000 at the stadium proved the point – it was a neutral venue and the Mumbai team was not laying.
The game had kicked off in Kolkata on 6th of October 2014.

It’s Sachin versus Ganguli again – this time it is the football field and ISL final

Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguli are both cricketing greats of Indian cricket and, after leaving the 22-yard strips for good and when the Indian Super League ISL was created, both of them bought football teams.
Sourav became co-owner of Atletico de Kolkata and Sachin became co-owner of Kerala Blasters.
Fortunately, both the teams have now come to the finals of the inaugural ISL which will be played in Mumbai on the 20th of December – the game had kicked off on 6th October.
Sachin’s team had advanced to the finals by besting M S Dhoni’s team Chennaiyin FC 4-3 in extra time.
However, Sourav’s team Atletico de Kolkata beat FC Goa in a penalty shoot-out after the teams finished goalless after 120 minutes in the second leg of second semi-final. The final result of the match was 4-2.