Rohit Yadav, player of tournament, ends Karnataka’s 54-year wait for Santosh Trophy
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Karnataka were Mysore when they had last won the Santosh Trophy. It was the 1968-69 season when they had won their fourth title in Bangalore. At the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, in the first ever domestic game of Indian football to be held outside the country, Rohit Yadav made his mark and scored the winner for his state that helped them end a storied trophy drought and add a fifth title to their cabinet.
Incredibly, the winner, a freekick, was Rohit Yadav’s fourth set-piece goal of the tournament. The Bengaluru FC reserve player was later adjudged as the player of the tournament on Saturday in the Santosh Trophy final. He had a hand in both the final goals scored by Karnataka, but crucially, the lightning quick start that he engineered for his team.
It was moments a...