Mokokchung, April 13 (MExN): Champions of the 8th Nagaland Veteran Football Tournament 2017, the Mokokchung District Veteran Football Association (MDVFA) were accorded a warm reception as they arrived home on Wednesday, April 12 evening. Apart from members of the MDVFA, officials from the Mokokchung District Football Association (MDFA) and Mokokchung Town Lanur Telong (MTLT) and others were also present at the civic reception held at the official residence of Senior Superintendent of Police (Sr. SP) Aotemsu, who is also the president of the MDVFA. The MDVFA president while congratulating the winning team expressed deep appreciation to the MDVFA officials and players for their discipline and dedication through which they could win the coveted tournament. He also extended appreciation to the MDFA and the MTLT for their moral support to the veteran football association and solicited their continued support for the promotion of football in the district. While urging the veteran footballers to keep up their discipline and team spirit, the Sr SP expressed thanks to the MDVFA for making the people proud through their win at the recently concluded tournament. Others who spoke at the programme were officials from the MDFA, Ex MLA Imtiyanger and MTLT president, Imkummeren Jamir. It may be noted that this is the third time that the MDVFA has excelled at the Nagaland Veteran Football Tournaments during the tenure of the Sr SP Aotemsu’s tenure as the president. In 2015, the MDVFA emerged champions of the tournament held at Mokokchung while in 2016 at Wokha, the association was the runner-up. In the 2017 Nagaland Veteran Football Tournament held at Phek, Mokokchung team once again emerged as winners beating Wokha in the final. This year, the MDVFA, besides winning the trophy also bagged two individual prizes with Akangmeren and Repamayang winning the Best midfielder and Highest goal scorer awards respectively.
