Tollygunj Agragami is the name of the team with whom Mohun Bagan will start its campaign of the season 2010-11. As we know Tollygunj Agragami was renowned giant killer in Kolkata Maidan but mariners are ready to show their best on the ground from the first match straightway. Mohun Bagan is the last three times champion and overall 29th times champion of Kolkata League and they would like to make it 4th consecutive time and overall 30th time as well.
The team’s pratice was held today in the morning and there was a match between 1st team and 2nd team where 1st team beat 2nd team by the goals of Surabuddin and Muritala. It is good for the team that number of players in the team have the scoring ability, when the strikers will not be able to score the others must do it.
Coach Stanly Rozario told that he is very happy with residential camp which was completed successfully without any injury and they would like to set momentum from the start of the season by winning the match in healty manner. He said to the reporters on the eve of of the first encounter of his team, "It’s always good if you start off with a convincing win.”
As many as six players are likely to make debut tomorrow for mariners against Agragami. They are Kinshuk Debnath, Rahul Kumar, Okwy Diamondstar (PAO), Surabuddin (u-19), Dhanrajan and Muritala. Apart from them in the first XI others are likely to be Goalkeeper Sangram Mukherjee, Jayanta Sen, Ishfaq Ahmed, Jose Barreto and Ashim Das. Edeh Chiddi, who is yet to convalesce from viral fever, is unlikely to feature in starting -XI.
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