Watching A Football Match In Our Are

The name of this football tournament is Shaheed Zia Smriti Gold Cup Football Tournament 2024-25. The organizer of this tournament is Belaichandi Young Society. This is the biggest football tournament in our Parbatipur police station. In this game, 2-3 foreign players play in each team. Today was the final game of this tournament where the 4-time champion of this tournament, Football Academy Saidpur, and the first-time finalist, Coaching Center Nilphamari, faced each other. The prize money of this tournament was 1 lakh 50 thousand taka for the champion team, which is worth about 6521 steem in steem and 1 lakh taka for the runner-up team, which is worth about 4347 steem in steem.

Today was Friday, so we left the house very early to watch the game. But in the middle of the road, our van ran out of charge. We got into another van and left. This made us very late. The entrance fee to watch today's game was 40 taka, which is about 1.7 steem in terms of steem. After a lot of pushing and shoving, I bought a ticket and entered the field. But after entering the field, I was shocked to see the audience. There were so many spectators all around, there was no space anywhere. After wandering around, when I couldn't find any space anywhere, I stood next to the sideline in the middle of the field. They had slowly raised it from low to high like a gallery, so I could watch the game.

I stood at a good spot and saw the players practicing. There were a lot of spectators in Saidpur today. Because Saidpur is very close to this field. After a while, the players and the game directors entered the middle of the field with the FIFA theme song. Then the National Anthem Hall and the guests gave speeches. Then the chief guest announced the opening of the game by blowing up balloons and kicking the ball. Immediately, many fireworks were set off around the field. Then the referee blew the whistle and the game started. I was standing and watching the game. Both teams were playing small passes. In the 9th minute of the game, Nilphamari took a 1-0 lead with a wonderful goal by Sagar Mahanta, a player wearing the number 10 jersey of the Coaching Center Nilphamari.

Then, Football Academy Saidpur increased the pace of the game and made many attacks. But their attacks could not be converted into goals. The Saidpur audience was encouraging them a lot so that they could play well and bring back the balance in the game. So, Saidpur changed a player before half time. Then, after the new player came on, the pace of the game increased even more but they could not score a goal. I took a selfie while watching the game. But I could not close my eyes properly because of the sun. I ate almonds with 10 taka nuts while watching the game. After a while, the referee whistled and announced that the first half of the game was over.

At the end of the first half, the players sat on the field and drank water. Then in the second half, Saidpur changed one more player and Nilphamari also changed one player. Then the game was going on again in a frenzy. Both teams were attacking and counter-attacking, but neither team was able to score a goal. At one point, Nilphamari's Sagar again got a loose ball and only the goalkeeper was in front of him. He beat the goalkeeper and dribbled the ball towards the goal, but the goalkeeper showed his intelligence by fouling him. Of course, the goalkeeper saw a yellow card, but his team was definitely saved from a goal. Nilphamari got a free kick due to a foul outside the box, but they could not score a goal from it.

Then, Saidpur changed another player and put Yasin, wearing jersey number 20, on the field. This increased the pace of the game a lot. Yasin made several good attacks. After a while, Yasin's cross was headed by Saidpur's player wearing jersey number 2, bringing the score to 1-1. Then, the game started to get tense. Nilphamari also changed players. After that, the game was going very well with the two teams attacking and counter-attacking. But as neither team could score, the game ended with a score of 1-1. No spectators entered the field after the game. Then, the players of both teams took positions in the middle of the field and the game director took position at the goal bar on one side to take a penalty shoot-out.

Then the penalty shootout started. Although Nilphamari scored in the first shoot, Syedpur could not score in the first shoot. Then Nilphamari scored again in the second shoot and Syedpur missed it. Then Nilphamari missed in the third shoot and Syedpur also missed. Then Nilphamari scored in the fourth shoot and won 3-0 and became the champion of this tournament. After winning the game, the entire audience entered the field. There were approximately 15,000 spectators in the field. After a while, the chief guest handed over the prize money to the captain of the Nilphamari team. Then they handed over their prize money to the captain of the Syedpur team. The staff of the Nilphamari team and the audience had a lot of fun and joy after receiving the prize money check. And the Syedpur audience left the field upset.