Legal diversity NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access’ (IDIA) Mumbai chapter organised the second season of the IDIA Football League (IFL) on 5 and 6 September at Kamla Mills Ground in Lower Parel, Mumbai. Star TV’s legal team bested Trilegal to win the tournament.
Star scored three goals during the final match - all in the penalty shoot out - beating Trilegal’s one penalty shoot out goal. Trilegal Mumbai associate Anshil Gosavi was the goal scorer. For Star the goal scrorers were Saikat Sengupta, Apurv Gupta and Suvesh Subramanyam.
IFL 2015’s participants were 20 law firms and in house legal teams: Star TV and Mahindra & Mahindra, AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Fortitude law Associates, Economic Law Practices, Lakshmikumaran Sridharan, Juris Corp, Khaitan & Co., Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Bharucha and Partners, Desai Diwanji, Wadia Ghandy, Platinum, K Law, Vahura and Trilegal.
The entry fee from the participants will be used by IDIA for funding the education of its scholars - underprivileged school students who want to study undergraduate law courses.
On-the-ground
The teams were divided into four groups of five teams each. The 40 IFL matches this season included four matches per day, per team. Day one saw league matches based on the results of which teams were segregated into the ‘Cup’ and ‘Plate’ categories for the knockout matches. The top two teams in each group moved to the Cup championships and the bottom three moved to the Plate championships. Of the 8 teams that competed for the cup in the quarterfinals, the losers also moved down to the Plate championships.
IDIA commented in an email: “The final was a twenty minute match, a exciting and close match with both teams on their toes despite a very hectic two days of continous games. There were many chances for both team but unfortunately it was still a 0-0 at the end of regulation time. The game moved on to a penalty shoot outs. Each team had three penalties. Star TV’s goalkeeper (Srinivasan Saimani) won the match for them with his superb save by putting his face on the line of the ball to take the Cup. The final scores were 3-1 in favour of Star TV.”
Other best men
Khaitan & Co. won the ‘Plate Winners Trophy’ defeating Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in the finals.
Srinivasan Saimani (Star TV) was adjudged the ‘Best Goalkeeper of IFL 2015’ and Animesh Bisht (Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas) was awarded the ‘Highest Scorer IFL 2015’ award.
The Fair Play Trophy was bagged by Fortitude Law Associates.
As it is said- “work hard, party harder”, the event ended with an after-party “IFL Night” in which all the participants and IDIA members, leaders enjoyed to the full and winners were felicitated with loud cheers. The after-party was graced by the presence of Mr. Pramod Rao, Mrs. Sweta Rao, Mr. Murli Neelakantan and Mr. Ritvik Lukose, to name a few of the renowned names in the legal fraternity. Listening to experiences of IDIA scholars in the party further inspired the cause behind the IDIA Football League.
Comments
Thank you for your comment.
I am not sure who is commenting but in my interactions with Trilegal management, I got the feeling that they can take a little light-hearted joke which is too trivial to harm any reputations.
Best wishes,
Prachi
Why don't you list out all the asses that Trilegal kicked on its way to the final. That would be more funny, no?
1. Expect a much better dignified reporting.
2. EIther that, or the writer clearly doesnt understand football. A penalty shootout victory can hardly be called "kicking ass". I would suggest the writer to know something about football before writing headlines like she would talk to her 13 year old friends.
Best wishes,
Prachi
LI Please change the headline, remove the word "A**"....
In my mind, sure, the headline may be a little hyperbolic and a little tongue in cheek, but it's only a football game and hardly serious sports coverage...
Is anyone seriously offended that their professional or other skills are being called into question by a headline?
In this context, I guess your ignorance is the cause of such a dumb headline. But please, don't try to hide your bias against Trilegal as 'a joke'. Lawyers may be stupid, but even the dumbest lawyers can see through that charade.. Its easier to just come clean and accept that Trilegal is hated simply because of what the Founders (of course with the assistance of its bonded laborers) have achieved in 15 years!
Next you will say XYZ firm screwed over ABC firm in negotiations! Followed by a "LOL" and a smiley
I was wondering why people were taking it so seriously...
I was wondering why people were taking it so seriously...[/quote]
Kian, you are a veteran in the field and know very well that the written word carries the author's emotions only when it is sculpted beautifully. In this case, the article is not so crafted and fails to create any "excitement" (for the lack of a better work) in the reader. In the circumstances, it would have been saner to stick to a more conservative headline. I would have laughed with you had the article been a witty or a funny piece, but that's clearly not the case.
As Bill Shankly had once famously said "Some people think football is a matter of life and death.....I can assure them it is much more serious than that." - just to give you a perspective on maybe why people are taking it seriously :)
P.S. Not from Trilegal and definitely not a Liverpool supporter!!
For what it's worth, no offence was intended with the headline and I regret if any was caused.
Game on and congrats all to all finalists, including Trilegal! :)
Sorry to take the discussion away from Trilegal lol, but a little cam sam infusion cannot be ruled out.
Khaitan - well played :)
Best wishes,
Prachi