Kerala Clubs

History of Chirag United Club Kerala

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The story of Chirag United Club Kerala from 2004 to present features their unique time from the club's basic foundation to the current condition.

Chirag United Club Kerala were started in 2004 as Viva Kerala Football Club which in turn was actually a club made for the state of Kerala. They transformed professional in 2010 and coupled with the I-League in 2007. They were consigned to the I-League 2nd Division in 2007 however they made it right back up one year later.

In 2011 after facing economic trouble the club was taken away by Chirag Computers and modified the club's name to Chirag United Club Kerala which is what they are labeled today.

Foundation and living as Viva Kerala (2004-2011)

Formed on August 8, 2004 the club formally took off on August 19 in a event inside FACT grounds. The club was established by a group of business owners who felt the necessity for the state's representation in country's greatest football league, the National Football League (NFL). Viva Kerala's name is the outcome of a contest, earned by Dr. P Ramakrishnan of Ernakulam.

The aim was to organize a team for the EDFA (Ernakulam District Football Association) Super League and State League in the first year and National Football League (2nd Division) in the second year. The ultimate plan is to eventually become the number 1 football team of India.

Viva Kerala concentrated on choosing younger and talented local players. Viva started out its actual voyage under the command of former NFL winner T K Chathunni. In its first year, Viva beaten top clubs like Mohammedan Sporting, Titanium XI etc. and earned dominance. In 2006, Viva Kerala won a Cup from a match organized in Tirur; teams from all regions of the country took part in the tournament, such as State Bank of Travancore and Punjab Police. This time frame also witnessed the rise of a vibrant Nigerian striker – Badmus Baba Thunde. In this match Viva Kerala won the 3rd Division National Football League. In the finish of the season, A M Sreedharan replaced Chathunni as the club’s new coach.

The chance for a NFL spot came in the way of Second Division NFL. Viva pleasantly surprised everybody by finishing second place in its group and qualified for the final stage with the teams like Salgaocar SC and Chirag United. In the final stage, Viva Kerala concluded as runners-up of the Second Division NFL to confirm their position in the National Football League 2007/08 on 6 April 2007. The combination of Baba Thunde and PK Anil Kumar was one of the main elements in the success of Viva Kerala. In midfield Denson Devadas was very excellent while defense was led by captain Dhanarajan and Ombalaji. Sreedharan’s rigorous coaching built them into competitive at the top level.

Regrettably there was a minor hiccup in the path of top glory for VIVA Kerala, when the club were directed back to 2nd division at the end of I-league 2008. However, Viva Kerala were invited back to Division 1 of the I-League for season 2009-2010.

Viva Kerala lost many good players in off season to various other clubs. Later they reinforced the team by signing U-19 players from Viva Kerala U-19 and chandini FC. Official announcement was made at a press meeting in Kochi that Musli Power X-tra of Kunnath Pharmaceuticals would be the main sponsor of Viva Kerala. Kunnath Pharma’s K.C. Abraham turned out to be the Director on the Viva Kerala board and he added “This is not a one or a two-year deal…this is for life”. In the meantime, the team has been enhanced by the introduction of experienced midfielder K Kulothungan and the Nigerian Mangut. Viva has implemented their traditional style of looking around for local talents and added the players like Javed, Shamil, Sajin and Faisal to the team. O K Javed has previously made his mark as a decent striker with his work for Chandni FC, but only time period will state whether he can make it big with Viva Kerala.

I-League clubs need to accomplish the AFC club licensing criteria; in order to do so, Viva has gathered in the services of P.K Kunhikrishnan (A-licensed coach) as the new Head coach. They just handled though to avoid relegation at the end of the I-League 2010-11 season.

New era, new sponsors, and a new brand name (2011-present)

In June 2011 Chirag Computers purchased the economically troubled Viva Kerala FC. They grabbed over a 60% stake in the club while original owners held on to a 40% stake. They also altered the name of the club to Chirag United Club Kerala. Chirag Computers have also said that they will probably move the team to Kolkata if they do not find a appropriate stadium in Kerala. The brand of the team was legally modified to Chirag United Club Kerala on August 6, 2011. While the new owners declared that team will be situated in Kerala for the 2011-12 I-League, there are talks of repositioning the team to Kolkata after the season. This would definitely leave the state of Kerala without representation in the I-League. Many fans of the club have come out extremely against this idea.

Fixtures of Santosh Trophy 2014

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The Santosh Trophy 2014 football series will see a new format along with the competition divided into five zones, respectively as the south, north, north east, east and west zones. Kerala team who was the last year’s runners-up in Santosh Trophy will have to went through from the south zone group. The seires is set to begin at Chennai from January 26 2014 in order to qualify for the final phase of the Santosh Trophy 2014 event at Siligiuri in West Bengal.

Following is the list of matches in Santosh Trophy 2014. Kerala has to repeat the last year’s form and go one ahead in the tournament to get the trophy which they lost in penalty shootouts of the last match at Kochi.

South Zone: (at Chennai)

26 January 2014 - Andhra Pradesh vs Andaman & Nicobar Islands
26 January 2014 - Tamil Nadu vs Kerala
28 January 2014 - Karnataka vs Andaman & Nicobar Islands
28 January 2014 – Kerala vs Andhra Pradesh
30 January 2014 - Andaman & Nicobar Islands vs Tamil Nadu
30 January 2014 - Karnataka vs Andhra Pradesh
01 February 2014 - Tamil Nadu vs Karnataka
01 February 2014 - Andaman & Nicobar Islands vs Kerala
03 February 2014 - Kerala vs Karnataka
03 February 2014 – Andhra Pradesh vs Tamil Nadu

North Zone:

30 January 2014 - Haryana vs Chandigarh
30 January 2014 - Delhi vs Uttarakhand
31 January 2014 - Punjab vs Himachal Pradesh
31 January 2014 - Uttar Pradesh vs Jammu & Kashmir
01 February 2014 - Chandigarh vs Delhi
01 February 2014 - Uttarakhand vs Haryana
02 February 2014 - Himachal Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh
02 February 2014 - Jammu & Kashmir vs Punjab
03 February 2014 - Haryana vs Delhi
03 February 2014 - Uttarakhand vs Chandigarh
04 February 2014 - Punjab vs Uttar Pradesh
04 February 2014 - Jammu & Kashmir vs Himachal Pradesh

North East Zone:

27 December 2013 – Mizoram vs Nagaland
28 January 2014 – Railways vs Tripura
28 January 2014 – Meghalaya vs Assam
29 January 2014 – Arunachal Pradesh vs Mizoram
29 January 2014 – Nagaland vs Manipur
30 January 2014 – Tripura vs Meghalaya
30 January 2014 – Assam vs Railways
31 January 2014 – Mizoram vs Manipur
27 January 2014 – Manipur vs Arunachal Pradesh
31 December 2013 – Nagaland vs Arunachal Pradesh
01 February 2014 – Railways vs Meghalaya
01 February 2014 – Assam vs Tripura

West Zone:

30 January 2014 – Maharashtra vs Gujarat
30 January 2014 – Goa vs Daman & Diu
01 February 2014 – Gujarat vs Madhya Pradesh
01 February 2014 – Daman & Diu vs Rajasthan
03 February 2014 – Madhya Pradesh vs Maharashtra
03 February 2014 – Rajasthan vs Goa

East Zone:

26 January 2014 – Jharkhand vs Sikkim
27 January 2014 – West Bengal vs Chhattisgarh
27 January 2014 – Orissa vs Bihar
28 January 2014 – Services vs Jharkhand
29 January 2014 – Chhattisgarh vs Orissa
29 January 2014 – Bihar vs West Bengal
30 January 2014 – Sikkim vs Services
31 January 2014 – West Bengal vs Orissa
31 January 2014 – Bihar vs Chhattisgarh

Kerala Clubs (19th, 20th centuries trends)

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Intellectual Trends of the 19th and 20th Centuries

The 19th century saw new patterns in the thought process of the people. The intellectual developments of the 19th and early 20th century world were largely dominated by the idas and concepts that had their roots in Europe.

Decline of the Enlightenment

By the end of the 18th century, the ideals of the Enlightenment no longer inspired the imagination of a group of philosophers in Europe. Men of letters and artists, too, began to doubt the essential tenets of the Enlightenment. Philosophers began to question whether rationality, scientific temperament, and logical thought of the Enlightenment were really good to mankind.

This skepticism regarding the ideals of the Enlightenment expressed itself in two ways: Romanticism and Idealism. In fact, both these streams of thought had their source in the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Subsequently, these developed into movements affecting political and cultural life, including literature and art. Germany, France, and England were the three regions where the impact of the new thoughts was felt first.
The Romantic Movement in 19th Century Europe Romanticism was the most significant development of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in philosophy, literature and art. It began first as a continuation of, and later as a reaction to the Enlightenment in Europe. Romanticism was a break with the ideals enshrined by the Enlightenment. It was a revolt against classicism in the art and literature of the Enlightenment.

Romanticism emphasized the subjective, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional and the spontaneous.

Modern Trends in Kerala Clubs

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Indians had to live under British domination for a long time. Our predecessors had suffered the brutalities perpetrated by foreign rule. They fought for the freedom of the country suffering this torture and adversities. Several revolts, big and small, defiance’s and resistances led finally to the dawn of freedom. Residents of the vast territory from Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the south have participated either directly or indirectly in these episodes marked by sacrifices of the highest variety.

East India Company in Kerala

Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan from Mysore arrived in Kerala when the land was administered by local rulers and chieftains. Tipu took over the control of Malabar. The rulers of Kochi and Travancore sought the help of the British to save their states from Tipu’s invasion. Henceforth, it was in the English East India company that the local chieftains found their hope. The rulers of Kochi and Travancore, too, considered the British as their savior. The Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley enabled the British to bring the native states under their control easily. The British ruled Malabar directly according to the terms of the treaty of Srirangapattanam. Travancore and Kochi accepted the paramountcy of the British. The local rulers and chieftains hoped that they could continue their rule once their territories were saved from Tipu. But the British subjugated all of them. Thus the whole of Kerala came under the English East India Company.

Subsidiary Alliance

Lord Wellesley, the Governor General of India, Introduced a clever device of Subsidiary Alliance to bring the native states under their control.

Kerala Clubs (Human Body)

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HUMAN BODY

Although we all look different, we are identical in the way our bodies are constructed and function. Each human body is built up from 12 major systems, including the digestive system, skeletal system, and muscular system. These systems interact to produce co-ordinated, active, intelligent humans. The study of the body’s structure is called anatomy. Externally, the only consistent anatomical differences between humans are between males and females.

From cells to systems

The body’s billions of cells are organized into tissues. Each tissue consists of similar types of cell. One or more types of tissue work together inside an organ, such as a bone or a lung. Organs are linked together to form a system that has one or more major roles. Together the systems are collected together to form the body.

Cell

Osteocyres, or bone cells, are spider-shaped cells that make up the tissues that form a bone. Osteocytes are found in spaces called lacunae that are scattered about the hard matrix (material) found in bone tissue. Their job is to maintain the hard matrix.

Tissue

Compact bone is one of the tissues that make up a bone. It consists of layers of hard bone around a central tube called the Heversion canal. This carries blood vessels which supply the osteocytes which food and oxygen.

Organ

Each bone consists of different tissues. Compact bone is a bone’s hard outer covering. Spongy bone and bone marrow are tissues found inside bones. Cartilage is the slippery tissue found in joints.

Skeleton

The adult skeletal system is made up of 206 bones. The skeleton provides a framework that support the body protects internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles.

Body

The skeleton and the other major body systems leaving human body. The body’s systems do not work in isolation, however. For example, the skeleton is supplied with blood vessels, Lymph vessels, and nerves, and requires muscles to move it.

Kerala Clubs Football

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The various forms of Football are among the most popular sports to play and watch. Association football, or soccer, is played in almost every country by men and women. Rugby games are less widespread, but the new professional rugby union is becoming increasingly international. American football, although watched worldwide on television, is played little outside the United States. Other "national" games include Australian football, played chiefly in the state of Victoria, and Gaelic football, an Irish game.

Soccer

Soccer is a kicking game played 11-a-side. The goalkeeper is the only person allowed to handle the ball. The object is to propel the ball into the opposition’s goal with a foot or the head. A game lasts 90 minutes, with a 15 minute interval plus, in some knock-out competitions, an extra 15 minutes each way.

There is some Football leagues in various countries such as English Premier League in England, Spanish Premier League in Spain, Italian League in Italy, French League in France.

World Cup

The soccer world cup is as popular as the Olympics. About 170 countries enter competitions to qualify for the 32 places in the finals, which take place every four years.

PELE (BRAZIL)

Brazilian soccer star Pele (b.1940) won universal acclaim when he inspired Brazil to win the World Cup for the first time in 1958. His performances in Brazil’s 1970 triumph have gone down in soccer folklore. In a first class carrier he scored 1,281 goals.

Women’s soccer

In 1991, the first women’s soccer World Cup was held, and women’s soccer was accepted as an Olympic sport in 1996. In many countries, girls now begin playing soccer at school...

Kerala Club Tennis

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Tennis and Other Racket Sports

Lawn tennis is the most popular and widely played of the racket sports – those in which rackets are used to strike balls of various shapes and sizes across a net or against a wall. Other racket sports are: squash played across a high net; and table tennis, played on a table. Real tennis is ancient game still played in a few places, and the relatively new sport of racquetball is popular in some parts of the United States.

Real tennis

Real or royal tennis was played by French and English royalty in the Middle Ages. The few courts around the world are bounded by open windows and doors and sloping roofs.

Lawn Tennis

In tennis, payers hit a ball over a net into the opponent’s court so that it cannot be returned. When they win a point they score 15, then 30, 40, and game. A player with six games, two ahead of the opponent, wins a set. Tennis is played as singles with two opponents’s, or doubles, with opposing pairs.

Tennis balls

White or Yellow, tennis balls are 6.5 cm (2.5 in) across. They weigh about 57 g (2 oz) and must conform to a specific standard. In major tournaments, the balls are changed every nine games.

Tennis racket

The frame of a racket is made of wood, metal, or other material, such as carbon graphite, and must be evenly strung. The racket must be no longer than 81.3 cm (32 in) or wider than 31.75 cm (12.5 in).

Tennis court

Tennis is played on a court 23.77 m (78 ft) long. It is 10.97 m (36 ft) wide for doubles, and 8.23 m (27 ft) wide for singles.

Secret's of a Pirate in Chettuva

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SECRET'S OF A PIRATE

CHETTUVA

Kerala Clubs Athletics

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This Popular sport takes place mainly in a stadium where it is divided into two main categories: track and field. Track includes running and hurdling races; Field includes jumping and throwing. Some athletics events involve more than one discipline - 10 in the decathlon for men; seven in the heptathlon for women. Other events are road and cross-country running. Major competitions are the Olympics and world and continental championships.
Of all the athletes who have performed at the Olympics over the years, few have made more of an impression than Jesse Owens, the young, black American who won four gold medals at the 1936 games in Berlin. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler wanted to use the games to demonstrate his theories about the supremacy of the Aryan race, but Owens showed that such ideas are nonsense. The crowd adored him, for he was a true athlete, whose speed and agility won him admirers wherever he raced.
At his high school in Cleveland, Ohio, Jesse distinguished himself in both track and field events. He won major events at the National Amateur Athletic Union meetings in 1934 and 1935, and then broke five world records while competing for the Ohio State University team at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 25^th May, 1935.
Berlin Olympics
In August 1936, the four-yearly Olympic Games were held in Berlin, the German capital. The German leader Adolf Hitler used the games as propaganda for his Nazi regime. He spend lavishly on training the German athletes, and hoped to glorify his racial myth of a superior “Aryan race”, the white, northern Europeans. However, Owens’ achievements smashed these hopes.

Kerala Clubs Sports Sponsorship

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Sport is a thriving industry, with billions of pounds poured into it every year by television companies, sponsors, and the public. People pay to watch major events, and also buy sport equipment for their own use. There is now a growing concern for health and fitness and new trends in sport are always emerging.
SPONSORSHIP FOR GAMES
Companies sponsor teams, individuals, and competitions. They pay to promote their products on clothing and around stadiums at key matches.

The Olympic rings
Five interlinking rings are the symbol of the Olympic Games. They appear on the Olympic flag on a white background and were designed to represent the coming together of the five “parts of the world” involved in the Olympic Movement when the flag was adopted in 1914.
Opening Ceremony
At the opening ceremony, each country’s athletes march into the stadium in turn; some team which hundreds of competitors, others with only one or two. The host city puts on a spectacular show.
Opening ceremony in Atlanta in USA was one of the best opening ceremonies in Olympics.
Olympic venues
DATE VENUE

1886	Athens, Greece
1900	Paris, France
1904	St Louis, USA
1908	London, England
1912	Stockholm, Sweden
1920	Antwerp, Belgium
1924	Paris, France
1928	Amsterdam, Holland
1932	Los Angeles, USA
1936	Berlin, Germany
1948	London, England
1952	Helsinki, Finland
1956	Melbourne, Australia
1960	Rome, Italy
1964	Tokyo, Japan
1968	Mexico City, Mexico
1972	Munich, West Germany
1976	Montreal, Canada
1980	Moscow, USSR
1984	Los Angeles, USA
1988	Seoul, South Korea
1992	Barcelona, Spain
1996	Atlanta, USA
2000	Sydney, Australia
2004	Athens, Greece

Kerala Club Types Of Sports

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BALL GAMES
Controlling ball with a stick, hands, foot, and bat is a satisfying experience. Ball games include team sports such as soccer and basketball and individual sports such as golf.
CYCLING
In the world, Cycling is a very popular sport. It is a great way to keep fit, as well as a cheap and non-polluting means of transport. "Mountain Bikes", 1st designed for off road cycling, are now common in cities too.
MOTOR SPORTS
At various levels people can take part in motor racing sports. If in Grandprix racing, sponsors' money and a large back-up team are needed to support the competitors.
HORSE RIDING
Riding can be an exhilarating pastime, enhanced by the necessary understanding between rider and horse. Young people enjoy competing in gymkhanas, and top-class show jumping and eventing are thrilling spectator sports.
WATERSPORTS
Water provides the means for gentle activity or vigorous exercise. People enjoy sailing and rowing in boats, and swimming, which is enjoyed in indoor pools as well as outdoors.
ATHLETICS
Athletics is probably one of the most popular groups of sport. It includes running, hurdling, jumping and throwing. Running may range from jogging for health and fitness to more grueling cross country events.
HEALTH AND FITNESS
If a machine treated with care given proper maintenance, it is more likely to function efficiently. Similarly, the human body is most likely to function to the best of its ability if it is kept fit and healthy. Health may be defined as the state of being well in body and mind.

Different Type of Sports events in Kerala Clubs

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Most of the sports can classified under one of the following categories: air, athletic, ball, combat, equestrian, racket, target, water, wheel, and winter sports. These categories can be further divided into individual and team sports, and contact or non contact sports.

Example: Cricket, Soccer, Rugby, Golf, Tennis, F1 car race, Moto GP bike race, Mountain biking, Inline skating, Running for fun, Snowboarding, Wind surfing, Judo, Horse race etc....

Swimming

Swimming is both a popular recreation and an important competitive sport. It involves using legs and arms against the water to propel the body along. It is an excellent form of exercise, and a good way to learn to swim is to use buoyancy aids, such as water-wings, when practicing strokes. Diving, in which a person enters the water head first, is fun too, although at competitive levels it calls for great agility. In competition, divers perform about 10 dives from a choice of more than 80 dives recognized by the governing body.

Types of Strokes

The four competitive strokes are freestyle (invariably front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

Diving

There are two standard diving events – the springboard, 3 m (10 ft) above the water, and the fixed platform, or high board, 10 m (33 ft) high. The diver platforms aerial manoeuvres such as twists and somersaults before entering the water. Points are awarded for technique and style.

Types of Dive

There six main types of dive: forward, backward, twist, inward, reverse, and handstand.

Cross-Channel swimming

Of all the long-distance sea swims, the channel between England and France – 34 km (21 miles) minimum – has always provided the greatest challenge.

Kerala Clubs Ancient Times

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Since Ancient times, people had take part in sports, for the recreation and for the thrill of competition. In ancient Greek, men regularly visited gymnasiums to keep fit and to relax; some men also participated in the formal ancient Olympics. Today, there is an impressive range of sports to choose from, including activities as athletics, archery and horse riding. Sports can be enjoyed for their own sake, as leisure or health pursuits, or at a competitive level.

Motor sport

There are many varieties of motor sport, featuring four – or – two-wheeled vehicles and taking place on special circuits, regular roads, or rough country tracks. Motor sport on four wheels ranges from Formula One grand prix racing and Indy car racing to karting, which is the sport in which many top drivers first experience motor racing. In between, there are various other types of racing including dragster, sports car, stock car racing, as well as rally driving. The two-wheeled sports range from powerful grand prix motorcycle racing to motocross and speedway. Cars and motorcycles are constantly modified to make them faster and more reliable.

Bicycles and Motorcycles

Fun, and environmentally friendly, the bicycle is the simplest form of mechanical transport. A bicycle or a bike is a two-wheeled machine that converts human energy into propulsion; a motorcycle, or motorbike, is a bicycle with an engine. Modern motorcycles are complex, with engine sizes ranging from 50cc (cubic centimeters) to more than 1,000cc. In many countries, such as China, most people travel or transport goods by bicycle. Across the world, bicycles and motorcycles are used for sport and leisure.