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ABOUT THE CLUB
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Mohun Bagan AC . Kolkata - India.
Hometown: Kolkata ; West Bengal
Sponsor - McDowell's (United Breweries Group)
Ground - Mohun Bagan Ground, Maidan; Calcutta
Capacity: 22.000
NFL home ground: Yuba Bharati (Salt Lake Stadium), Kolkata .
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Yuba Bharati Krirangan
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Mohun Bagan Ground
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Contact Address : Mohun Bagan
Athletic Club
Kolkata
Maidan Tent .
Kolkata - 700001
West Bengal . India.
Phone Numbers
: (033) 22488371 ; (033) 22520880; (033)
22530882
Office Bearers :
President : Mr. Swapan Sadhan Bose
General Secretary : Mr. Anjan Mitra
Asst. Gen. Secretary : Mr. Balaram
Choudhury
Manager/s : Mr. Om Jhunjhunwala ; Mr.
Debashis Dutta
Treasurer : Mr. Krishna Saha ; Mr. Biru
Chatterjee
MEMBER OF THE FIFA TASK FORCE FOR CLUB FOOTBALL
Mohun Bagan Athletic Club has been chosen among the top 11 clubs by FIFA to form an Elite Task Force for club football. There are Byrne Munich and Barcelona FC. This task force will work for the betterment of the club football. Swapan Sadhan Basu,Hon. President, Mohun Bagan Athletic Club will be the representatiove of the club at FIFA.Mr. Bose joins the president of the Japanese giant Jubilo Iwata, Takanori Matsuzaki, who is the other Asian name in the 11-member body.
The `Club Task Force' is not an official committee but is conceived by FIFA as a platform for clubs from all confederations to express their views and concerns in an informal gathering. It has been constituted to "confirm that FIFA recognizes the existence and importance of the clubs within the game,'' stated a fax from the world body to the Indian federation — AIFF.
Interestingly, there is another Indian name in the list and that is of Mr. Sunil Gulati, who as the president of the New England Revolution of United States of America, is representing the only club from the CONCACAF. The first meeting of the FIFA Club Task Force will be held in Zurich on December 17.
The club task force (clubs segmented under continental bodies):
UEFA: FC Barcelona (Spain) — Mr. Joan Laporta; FC Bayern Munich (Germany) — Mr. Franz Backenbaur; Ipswich Town FC (England) — Mr. David R. Sheepshanks.
CONMEBOL: Club River Plate (Argentina) — Mr. Jose Maria Aguilar; Palmeiras de Sao Paulo (Brazil) — Mr. Mustafa Contursi.
AFC: Mohun Bagan AC (India) — Mr. Swapan Sadhan Bose; Jubilo Iwata (Japan) — Takanori Matsuzaki.
CAF: Etoile Sportive du Sahel (Tunisia) — Mr. Othman Jenaleh; ASEC Mimosas Omnisports (Cote d'Ivoire) — Mr. Roger Ouegnin.
CONCACAF: New England Revolution (USA) — Mr. Sunil Gulati.
OFC: Perth Glory Club (Australia) — Mr. Nick Tana.
Mr.Swapan Sadhan Bose joined the first meeting of the Task Force at FIFA's head office at Zurich , Switzerland on 17th December 2004.
To read the detailed report of this historic meet, click here.
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