Kathmandu, January 3
The player who scores the most goals in the Shaheed Smarak A Division League this time will receive the Golden Boot as the highest scorer award.
The All-Nepal Football Association is about to give the award to the highest goal scorer again after a decade and a half. ANFA, which has been giving awards to the departmental best before, has changed the format of the awards this time and according to the trend in world football, awards will be given to the Most Valuable Player, Highest Scorer, Best Goalkeeper and Emerging Player.
More than half of the 14 clubs participating in the league have played so far. In the race to
score the most goals, the previous winner Sunil Bal of Machhindra Football Club is ahead.
Sunil, a national team player who played for Castle Youth Club last season, has come to
Machhindra this season. The same Sunil Bal has scored 5 goals in 7 games. He is the lone top scorer so far.
Sunil, who scored both goals in the 2-1 win over NRT in the first game of the league, is in
excellent form this season. He then scored in three games. Sunil scored a goal in the 3-0 win over Himalayan Sherpa and scored the decisive goal in the 1-0 win over Manang Marsyangdi Club and Nepal Police Club.
He has scored the decisive goal in 3 out of 5 wins of Machhindra. He played in the first selection in six games, spent five full-time games on the field and was substituted in one game. In one such game, he entered the field as an alternate player.
Ajayi Martins of Satdobato Youth Club and Ashish Lama of APF Football Club are the top scorers after Sunil Bal. Both have scored the same 4 goals.
Then there are players who score three goals. Captain of Manang Marsyangdi Club Anjan Bista, Suman Lama of Nepal Police, Niraj Basnet and Uttam Rai of Sankata, Piston Mutumba of Himalayan Sherpa, Nicholas Fernandez of Jawalakhel, Rumesh Bartaula of Chasal, BK Tamang of APF and Mesuke Olomou of NRT.
By Karuna Thapa
