MJAC: Chinese Taipei earn 9th spot: Sri Lanka lost 2-3
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April 28, 2004
Syed Akber Ali Wahidi
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FROM : SYED AKBER ALI WAHIDI
Karachi : Chinese Taipei once again showed their superiority over Sri Lanka and registered 3-2 win over them to snatch ninth position in the 5th Mens Junior Asia Cup at Hockey Club of Pakistan, Karachi.
Both the teams contested the final of first Junior AHF Cup at Singapore s Delta Stadium on 28 December 2003 and that final too resulted in 3-1 win for Chinese Taipei.
The hero for Kuo-Heg Fan led - Chinese Taipei was Do-Hsing Huang who broke the deadlock in the 5th minute and then scored the 60th minute match-winner when the 9th/10th place play-off was sweetly-balanced at 2-2.
The score stood 1-1 at interval as Lankan skipper H.S.Hettiarachchi neutralized Huang's first goal within five minutes.It was Hettiarachchis third goal of the tournament.
Sri Lanka controlled the match momentarily when D.J.N.Hettarachchi made it 2-1 in the 42nd minute but Yai-Wen Shih leveled the term by converting set-piece to make it 2-2 in the very next minute, and it was left to Huang to fire the winner past keeper T.Jayaprakash.
China brush aside Singapore 2-0 : snatch 7th spot
Karachi : China clinched seventh position in the 5th Mens Junior Asia Cup at Hockey Club of Pakistan, Karachi. They overwhelmed Singapore 2-0 in a lackluster fixture on 28 April 2004.
It was second meeting between the two teams in JAC whose history is orbited around 17 years. Chinese were also victorious in the previous meeting in 1992 pool encounter by 4-1. Chinese were sixth in last edition when they lost to Pakistan 0-3 in 5th/6th position match. They were 5th in 1988, 6th in 1996 and 7th in 1996. On the other hand, Singapore, also, in their three previous appearances put up miserable display and finished 10th in 1992, 2000 and ninth in 1996.
Fangming Luo-led China struck twice in as many minutes in first half to build 2-0 lead and kept these goals until the final whistle. Keeper Zulkarnain Salim of Singapore failed to foil the attempts of Zhongqiang Guo (25th minute) and Yixian Liu (25th minute) who helped the East Asian team to finish seventh in the ten-day under-21 show.
Japan fill fifth spot : beat Bangladesh 1-0
Karachi : The losing semi-finalists in previous two editions, Japan had to content with fifth position in the 5th Mens Junior Asia Cup at Hockey Club of Pakistan, Karachi.
A second-half PC goal put Japan into 5th position. The East Asian outfit registered 1-0 win over South Asian team Bangladesh in a match short of any excitement and thrill.
It was third meeting between the two outfits in JACs history. Japan won the 1996 pool match 4-1 while the 2000 pool match ended in scoreless draw. Japan finished 6th in 1988, 7th in 1992, 3rd in 1996 and 4th in 2000 respectively.
After a scoreless draw, Japan converted a PC through 47th minute goal by skipper Takuya Kodama. Bangladesh, under the coaching of 1990 World Cup silver medallist and 1992 Olympics bronze-medallist Qamar Ibrahim, finished sixth. The same position they got in 1996 edition. Bangladesh which missed the inaugural competition in 1988, finished 5th in 1992 and 7th in 2000.
Thursday (29 April) Fixtures :
Bronze - Medal Encounter : Korea vs Malaysia ( 2.30 PM)
Final : Pakistan vs India (5 PM)
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