Church Boys United and Three Star Club, the final opponents of the ninth edition of Rumpam Virat Gold Cup football tournament, have expressed strong confidence in winning the title.
Church Boys are aiming to win the Virat Gold Cup title for the first time from the final at Shaheed Stadium on Wednesday at 6 o'clock.
Three Star stopped Machindra and Tribhuvan Army and reached the title. Threestar defeated Machindra 2-1 and Army 3-2 in the semi-finals. Church Boys, who reached the finals of Virat Gold Cup for the first time, defeated NRT and Nepal Police. Church Boys beat NRT 2-0 and Police 1-0.
This season, Church Boys and Three Star are meeting for the first time in the final of Virat Gold Cup. League winners Church Boys' morale is high as they have defeated strong teams like Machindra and Police. Since
, Threestar is also in the stake of creating history by winning the title for the second time. Three Star is the fifth Virat Gold Cup title winner. At that time, Three Star defeated Army by 3-0 goals and won the title.
Church boys are aiming to win their fourth title in the ongoing season. This season, the church boys have won three titles while reaching a total of 8 Gold Cups in 9 competitions. It includes Phidim Phalgunand, Jhapa Cup and Bagmati Goal Cup.
In the pre-match conference at Shahid Rangshal on Tuesday, the coaches and captains of both teams said that they will play with determination to win the title. Suman Shrestha, the coach of Church Boys, said that Virat reached Filen for the first time in the Gold Cup and said that the team's only goal is the title. In this season, we have won three Mofusal Gold Cup titles. We have reached the Virat Gold Cup final. Our goal is to create history by lifting the title," said coach Shrestha, "we are committed to the plan of winning the fourth title." Reaching the finals for the first time is an achievement, he said, "Three Star is a good team." In Philan, we play technical games and our only goal is to capture the title.
Three Star's coach Ganesh Khadka said that they will play the best game to win the prestigious Virat Gold Cup title in Mofasal. We will miss captain Yogesh Gurung a lot in Philan. He won't get a game because he got a double allo card, but we will make up for his lack by playing the best players," he said.
Yogesh Gurung, the captain of Three Star, said that although he did not take the field in the final, he was confident of winning the title because of good teamwork. He argued that even if the competing team is strong, if they play according to the strategy, the team will win the title even if they are not himself. The
winner will get Rs 11 lakh and the runner-up will get Rs 5 lakh. The best in the department will get 15 thousand.
