Zomi Namni Platinum Jubilee Cup 2023: Preview – III

📃 Group C
United Khawzim Brothers (UKB)
AKSA (Kwakta)
Headquarters Athletic Union

Headquarters Athletic Union to go all the way for upset

📃 Group D
Football 4 Change (Saikul)
Dynamic Football Academy
Golngai FC

Group D blessed with easiness

📝 By: Seiminlun Kipgen
January 10, 2023 (Tuesday)
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The Zomi Namni Platinum Jubilee Cup 2023 edition is just few hours away from kick-off and with teams from highly balanced Group A and Group B all busy picking up players of their choices and exploring last options, let us shift our focus on Group C and Group D in this last edition of pre-tournament analysis.

Comparing to Group A and B, Group C looks a little bit easy for Manipur State League giants United Khawzim Brothers as it contains All Kwakta Sports Association (AKSA) and Headquarters Athletics Union (HAU).

United Khawzim Brothers are by-far the most successful clubs in Churachandpur in terms of grading in Manipur State League as they reached the semi-final and quarter-final stages in two full seasons they played. Apart from their strong show in all district level open football tournaments and their rich history, they are hot favourites to reach the knock-out round from Group C taking into account they have never failed to reach the quarter-final in all of the tournaments they played since 2016 and their last silverware being the champions of the much fan-fare Raja Goukhothang Guite Football Memoriam 2020.

Meanwhile, All Kwakta Sports Association (AKSA) are DFA Moirang champions and had recently played Manipur State Winners' Cup and with them making few quality addition into their squad, they are expected to show stiff competition for both UKB and Headquarters Athletic Union.

Headquarters Athletic Union are one of the fastest growing clubs in Churachandpur as they earned promotion every single season and as recently as last season, they earned a promotion to Churachandpur District Super Division League. Having been inspired by such rapid success and with the addition of some promising youngsters in the shape of Classic Football Academy duo Tongminsei Kipgen and Lunjason as well as KLASA FC's Paominchon and Muvanlai Athletics' Thangsanglen, they are considered to have been capable of inflicting pain to both UKB and AKSA to force their way to the next round.

Over in Group D, the pairing of Football 4 Change with unproven Golngai FC and Dynamic Football Academy seems a blessing for the Saikul outfit as they emerged firm favourites in what has been considered the easiest pool of the group-stage. Football 4 Change just had a strong campaign in the recently concluded AMFA Cup and alongside Classic Football Academy, they are considered the most advanced and well-organized football academies in Manipur. Football 4 Change also wrote history last week as they participated in All India U-17 Youth League 2022-23 playing at Kolkata and under all such inspiring stories, they will be setting their foot once again at Lamka Public Ground to follow their steps in the recent SSPP Platinum Jubilee Tournament 2021 where they were eliminated in the pre-quarter final by Lamka Sports Club. With Football 4 Change, favourites to go through, another football academy on the rise from Churachandpur namely Dynamic Football Academy will be pushing high for strong campaign as the newly established football academy are raring to improve on their pre-quarter finish in 15th Seikam Memorial Open Football Tournament 2022. Meanwhile, Golngai FC, who are a surprise participant, will make a show to introduce themselves as they appeared strangers to many.
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