Sports
Sports is one of the basic needs of the people of Guptipara. Here you will get two clubs which are 120 years older. One is Guptipara Football Club and another is Aida Milani Sangha. And also there is a rival club of these clubs Guptipara Cricket Club.
GFC, GCA and Aida Milani Sangha arranges every year many big tournaments. Amoung which GCA's Guptipara Premier League in Cricket got some fame and came into spotlight of Bengal Media. Last year Mr. Koushik Rakshit was the highest paid player in the league with INR 28,000.00 per match.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)