Football Tournament 2008

 

WIUT Football Cup 2008

  Summary of the tournament

  • Teams: 15
  • When: 15 March 2008 to 30 March 2008
  • Final: 30 March 2008
  • Matches: 34 (10 minutes per period, 15 minutes per period - final)
  • Goals: 134 (average 3.9 per match)
  • Winner: Economics
  • Runners-Up: EC-1
  • Third: Westgazmyas
  • Fourth: FC WIUT
  • Best Scorer: Muzaffar Husanov (Do or die)

 Economics won its third year crown in a row

“Economics”, the team in red shirts, has demonstrated a spectacular win in the fifootball.jpgnal of WIUT Football tournament securing a title of Champions of the WIUT Football Cup third time in a row. The Sunday battle for two competing “economic” teams, EC1 and Economics was worth a title of a cup final game. The team “EC1” is a second place winner from Group A and is a team, which defeated Chester in Quarter-finals and WestGazmyas in Semi-finals.  

The early goal was apparently important for both teams as attacks were intensive since game’s outset. The match has started with furious attacks of EC1, the debuting nevertheless remarkable contender. As a result, Bakhtiyor Tukhtabaev’s 6th – minute strike gave EC1 the early lead.  

 Despite the fact that EC1 has been doing all possible to secure the lead in the game, the repeated and intensive attacks of “Economics” finally led to a result, but only next to the game’s end. Shukhrat Shamsutdinov, the captain of “Economics”, after struggling hard finally managed to equalize on 26th – minute and return a hope for his team. A minute later, the scatching shot of Bobur Ibragimov (27th –minute) left EC-1 with a minimum gap, one goal behind to the “three-time” winner of WIUT Football Cup. The “2:1” was a final score that set apart the strong from the strongest. The triumph of “Economics” will be remembered as a team effort and as such allow us to convey our congratulations to a winning team and wishes of success for future games.

 The game for the third place made Westgazmyas a third place winner in this tournament after the team scored the single goal in the game against FC WIUT. The best forward, a person who scored the largest number of goals in the WIUT 2008 Cup, is Muzaffar Husanov from “Do or die” team. He has placed the ball nine times in the opponent’s net.