It is absolute tragic exit for U-19 Mohun Bagan from U-19 I-League this year. They had to win the last match against Sporting Clube de Goa, but they managed to draw only by 1-1 at their own ground. Lalam Puia of Mariners scored earlier but Pritam of Sporting equalized it and secure the ticket of Final.

Mohun Bagan defeated JCT by 2-0 in the last match but Sporting defeated JCT by 4-2 and increased goal average. That is why Mariners boys had to win the match against the Goan outfit. But the match ended in a 1-1 draw and Sporting de Goa U-19 reached to the final by better goal average.

MBSFA boy Captain Souvik Chakraborty  lead well to his team. Specially he was leading from the front and accumulate the attack for mariners.

However, MBSFA boys,who were in the name of Mohun Bagan u-19  have shown a great temperament and made a lot supporters hopeful for the future of the academy and the club.
 

Mohun Bagan has given the letter to IFA regarding the incident of yesterday at Yuba Bharati Krirangan by the Chirag United players. Mohun Bagan has a demand for punishment of the Chirag Players, who man handled the referee. Also MB officials want IFA to investigate the power cut during the match at YBK. Chirag also gave letter to IFA for replay but IFA Gen. Sec. Utpal Ganguly has overruled this demand.
The letter of Mohun Bagan to IFA inside of this news.

Dear Sir,

We would like to draw your kind attention to the fiasco which occurred yesterday at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan during the 2nd half of the Sahara Calcutta Football Premier Division League match played between McDowell Mohun Bagan and Chirag United SC. The manner in which Referee Minangshu Bhattacharya was insulted, taunted and manhandled openly in front of the spectators, team officials, match officials and IFA Officials (including your goodself) was shameless and deplorable. We take this opportunity to condemn this unsporting behaviour.

At the same time, we urge IFA to take strong and severe disciplinary action against the players involved. Just a few minutes earlier a goal scored by our Team was disallowed by the Referee but our players accepted and respected this wrong decision sportingly. Many reporters and ex-players have mentioned that this goal was a genuine one.

This incident has been highlighted by all the print and electronic media and has received media attention for all the wrong reasons thereby tarnishing the image of the Calcutta Football League, IFA and other stakeholders. (Newspaper cuttings enclosed for your ready reference).

A similar incident had occurred on 27th February 2010 in a CFL match of this year’s League itself at the same venue between Kingfisher East Bengal and Mohammedan SC when the players of both teams got involved in a free-for-all at the fag end of the match and Referee Biplab Poddar gave marching orders to four players (two players from either team). IFA had taken a tough stand and had initiated appropriate disciplinary action against the offenders. However it seems that mere suspension for a few matches or monetary fine is not enough since similar incident has recurred within a gap of three months.

So, without intending to interfere in your jurisdiction, it is our earnest suggestion for the sake of Football that long-term suspension/ban is considered and onus must also be on the clubs to control their players. Please note that if players of Chirag United SC are not suitably punished for similar type of offence committed by players of Kingfisher East Bengal and Mohammedan SC in the same tournament; IFA would be guilty of both negligence as well as partiality.

We request you to take up this matter on a priority basis and give exemplary punishment to the offenders of yesterday’s match which will act as a deterrent and help preserve the spirit of the game.

Another incident that needs to be mentioned is the floodlight failure in the second half of this match which led to suspension of play by almost half an hour. In this context please note that we had requested IFA to prepone the kickoff time of this match by an hour (from 5 pm to 4 pm) to enable our player Chidi Edeh to board the flight to Lagos via Mumbai since his pregnant wife is critically ill and hospitalized in Lagos (letter dated 24th May 2010 from McDowell Mohun Bagan to IFA enclosed). In the Managers’ Meeting, it was decided and duly documented that kickoff would be at 4:30 pm (document enclosed for your easy reference). However after the meeting, it was notified to us that kickoff would be at 5 pm. This is strict violation of the rules and was done with a vicious motive so that our star striker Chidi would not be able to play full 90 minutes and at the same time he would be looking more at his watch than the opponent’s goal.

We feel that there is a sinister ploy behind the floodlight failure incident. Ultimately Chidi had to be replaced before the match ended, even though he was fit and in good form to play. CAB had appointed an independent committee of experts to find out the facts when floodlights went out at Eden Gardens a few months back during an IPL Twenty-Twenty match. We therefore request you to constitute a similar independent committee of experts, having no member from IFA, Clubs or YBK Stadium, to investigate into yesterday’s occurrence and thereafter to take strong exemplary action against those involved as a preventive measure.

Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Anjan Kumar Mitra
Hony. General Secretary
McDowell Mohun Bagan

Bagan pips Chirag 1-0 to claim the Premier League title in an eventful match here on Tuesday. A Edeh chidi penalty converted helped the green and maroon outfit to a victory that ensured they retain the league title and pip Chirag United by 3 point. This is the third season in a row for Bagan for the Premiere League title.

Mohun Bagan: Sangram Mukherjee, Surkumar Singh, Deepak Mondal, Shiekh Azim, N. Mohanraj, Rakesh Masih, Ishfaq Ahmed (James Singh, 53rd), Souvik Chakraborty, Ryuji Sueoka, Edeh Chidi (Suraj Mondal, 84th), Jose amirez Barreto (Manish Mathani, 72nd)

Chirag United: Sandip Nandy, R. Dhanarajan, Eduardo Chacon, Arnab Mondal, Subhasish Roy Chowdhury , Denson Devadas, Sankar Oraon (Jayanta Sen 25th, Gouranga Biswas 79th), Gouranga Dutta, Soumik Chakraborty, Ashim Biswas, Joshimar Martins

Referee: Minangshu Bhattacharjee

MoM: Ryuji Sueoka

Bagan’s route to the title –

 01. Oct 21, 2009 (MB) – Kalighat – W 1-0 (1-0) [Shubhojit-1]

Mohun Bagan U-19 has won the iLeague match against JCT U-19 here on Sunday. The first goal was scored in the first half by souvick Chakraborty. It was a long ranger from right. Later, in the second half Dipendu Duari scored the second goal – and that was a long ranger too. Bagan will play Sporting Clube de Goa in the next match

Mohun Bagan defeated West Bengal Police 2-1 in their one before the last CFL Premier Division clash at the Salt Lake Stadium, here on Thursday. While Chirag United beating Kalighat 3-0 at Khardah Stadium, both the teams are in same position as per point, but Chirag got the advantage due to better goal difference. Mariners have missed the chance to increase goal difference against W.B.Police.

Coach Biswajit Bhattacharya wanted to give his foreign trio of Jose Ramirez Barreto, Edeh Chidi and Ryuji Sueoka rest before the championship decider against Chirag United. A bunch of irregular players like Chirodeep Chattopadhyay, Subha Kumar, Shanta Kumar, Subhojit Majumdar, Suraj Mondal looked totally out of sorts. This affects to the team.While they need to score heavily but they conceive one early in the 10^th Minute. Policeman Kishore Mullick took the chance of a defensive blunder of Mariners and made no mistake to slotted past a hapless Chirodeep Chatterjee, the goalkeeper who played his team for the first time in competitive match apart from some of the practice matches. (0-1) On a serious note it must be known by all our reader Chirodeep played his last competitive match two years ago at 2008 against Bayern Munich for two minutes only.

However, Suraj Mondal had shown his brilliance when he received a long ball by chest and trapped well, then netted the ball by his left footer only in the next minute. (1-1)

In the rest of time of 1^st half there was nothing for the defending champion except deep breath of supporters in the gallery. Isfaq, Suraj Masih, Suraj got no point from Policemen to take the advantage, though they got better possession.

In the second half Coach Biswajit Bhattacharya bring L. James Singh in the place of  Subho Kumar and in the 57^th minute Japanese Ryuji Suekoa came in for Santha Kumar. There was expected lot of attack from Mariners and they were doing so except scoring the goal.

Derby match star Snehasis Chakraborty came in the place of Suraj Mondal at 74^th Minute. Sueoka scored the second goal from a Azim square pass for the mariners and brought the much needed victory on the 84^th minute. (2-1).

Teams

Mohun Bagan: Chirodeep Chattopadhyay, Zenith Genius, Deepak Mondal, Sheikh Azim, N. Mohanraj, S. Santha Kumar (Ryuji Sueoka, 57th), Rakesh Masih, Subha Kumar (James Singh, 46 th), Subhojit Majumdar, Suraj Mondal (Snehasish Chakraborty, 74 th), Ishfaq Ahmed

West Bengal Police: Soumavo Ghosh, (Palash Kundu, 55 th), Manoj Das, Parbesh Hossain Molla, Mehtab Ali Sapui, Kishore Mullick (Prashanta Sarkar, 89 th), Himadri Chakraborty (Dipankar Das, 90+1), Prayashu Halder, Swarup Kumar Dey, Indrajit Sil, Shankar Sil

Referee: Debahish Mishra

MoM: Subhojit Majumdar

Picture Cortesy : Bartaman

The Federation has announced the Under – 19 Phase 2 fixture here on 18th May , 2010. All Mohun Bagan home matches will have Mohun Bagan Ground as the venue. Mohun Bagan has already qualified for the next round.

The boys from Mohun Bagan Sail Football Academy are donning the Green-and-Maroon outfit. Jo Paul Anchery, the Academy coach and ex- Indian player is the coach for team Mohun Bagan.

6 teams have qualified in the final round. There are two groups and winner of each group will go for the title clash.

Group A

1. Sporting Clube de Goa

2. JCT

3. Mohun Bagan

Group B.

East Bengal Club

Dempo Sports Club

Pune FC

Group A

Group B

 Final

30/5/2010 – Winner Group A vs Winner Group B

Mohun Bagan has retained the two key goal-getters for the team and forward duo of Jose Ramirez Barreto (Brazil) and Edeh Chidi (Nigeria). The team management has announced the same here on monday.

Picture Courtesy : Bartaman

Mohun Bagan Club’s Executive Committee met on 15th May 2010 and nominated Mr. Anukul Maity as the new Vice President of the club. Beside Mr. Maity, the other Vice Presidents are Mr. Subrata Mukherjee, Mr. Gitanath Ganguly, Mr. Radheshyam Agarwal, Dr. Rathin Chakraborty and Mr. Kumarshankar Bagchi.

 The officials have also informed that the Mens Football Team is going to have a new Co-Sponsor for the next season. The name of the co-sponsor will be announced and the Team jersey for the new season will be unveiled and handed over to the Senior Players at 5 pm on Monday, 17th May, 2010.  A press conference will be held in the club tent.

The Mohun Bagan supporters will be delighted, that team Mohun Bagan have managed to beat the Federation Cup champions by 2-1, by scoreline and also by the number of wins in the season.

An own goal by N S Manju, Felix, Kalu and Odafa’s goals helped Churchill Brothers to the surprise win over Mohun Bagan by 4-0, who failed to pull even one on Friday nightin iLeague.