Bhagyashree Dalvi, the only Mumbai player from the 18-member U-14 girls national football team that went to Kathmandu, Nepal to participate in the Asian Football Confederation-s AFC regional championship, landed in the city on Monday.


India U-14 footballer Bhagyashree Dalvi third from right with her mother Hema right and father Swanand second from right, grandparents Ghanshyam left and Anupama second from left and team physiotherapist Monika Tarkar at the Mumbai domestic airport yesterday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi 

It ended a 48-hour ordeal, beginning with a devastating earthquake that shattered Nepal around 12 noon on Saturday, an hour before the team-s scheduled third-fourth place playoff at the Dashrath Stadium in Kathmandu Bhagyashree-s Air-India flight also carrying city-based team physiotherapist Dr Monika Tarkar, landed in Mumbai from New Delhi at 9:10am.