Our Correspondent Kohima | February 6 The Season 3 of Morning Premier League (MPL) 2017 under the aegis of Morning Football Association will start from March 6 till July 7 in Kohima. This football league will be played at Kohima Local Ground, Indira Gandhi Stadium Hockey Ground and Seikhazou Local Ground. The main purpose of this league is to create health consciousness, friendship, camaraderie and competitive mentality and to promote sportsmanship in a safe, healthy and fun loving environment. Initially it was started with just two teams in 2015 but due to the growing interest and demand of health conscious people, the MFA feel the need and it has now raise to ten teams. The teams for Season 3 include Morning FC, Amur Falcon FC, Medical XI, Merhulietsa FC, Merhulietsa Sunrisers, PowerCom, Morung United FC, Mustang FC, Nepali Baptist Church Silver White Kohima and All Blacks. This league is for non-professionals and retired players only. To be eligible for this league one has to be at least 28 years of age and must not registered or contracted to any professionals clubs in Nagaland. KABA pastor Temjenmongba Sempo released promo video of MPL 2017 in a function held here today at D’Café. He said one should not forget those people who are suffering around us and asked the youth to look beyond and extend care and love to them. Highlighting the MPL event, Kangie said MPL started in 2015 with just two teams- Morning Football Club and Amur Falcon Football Club wherein they used to play friendly matches every morning. “We hope that through MPL we can bring some positive change in the life of the player,” said Kangie. He said all the 10 teams are anxiously looking forward for the Season 3. The function was chaired by Temjenmoa while Loben Jamir, president Morning Football Association proposed vote of thanks.
