Bagan juniors won the Gostho Pal Memorial nursery tournament on Wednesday after winning the final against Dukhiram Majumder Coaching Centre. The match went into tie breaker and Bagan won it by 5-4. This is the second trophy for the colts this season.Meanwhile, Subrata Bhattacharya have withdrawn the case against a Mohun Bagan supporter for man handling him. Subrata Bhattacharya was the coach of Chirag in 2008 when the incident happened outside Bagan tent. His good gesture has been welcomed by all Mohun Bagan supporters.

4 more players have signed for Bagan – namely Odafa Onyeka Okolie, Stanley Okoroigwe, Celestine Echezona Anyichie, Khelemba Meetei. Meanwhile Bagan has skipped their second official match on the season. Earlier on Saturday, 25th August – Bagan playes a practice game against Janbajar and won the game 5-0. Sabeeth, Odafa, Snehasish and Anil (2) scored for Bagan.

Mohun Bagan will play Churchill Brothers in their Fed Cup opener at Siliguri. Bagan is in Group B along with Churchill Brothers, Air India and qualifier. The group topper will qualify for the semifinal.

The distribution of Groups is as follows –

Group A (Ranchi) : Dempo Sc, , Pailan Arrows, Shillong Lajong, Mumbai FC
Group B (Siliguri) : Mohun Bagan, Churchill Brothers, Air India, Qualifier- 1
Group C (Siliguri) : Kingfisher East Bengal, Sporting Clube de Goa, ONGC, Qualifier-2
Group D (Ranchi) : Prayag United, Pune FC, Sikkim United, Salgaocar SC(Holders)

Semifinal 1(Ranchi) – Group A winner vs Group D winner – September 26th

Semifinal 2 (Siliguri) – Group B winner vs Group C winner – September 27th

Final – 30th September

While Bagan has teams like Churchill Brothers and Air India with them, the tougher situation is that of the ground. the stadium’s ground is a bit hard. Moreover, due to high altitude there would be some difficulties for the players. But most importantly – the crowd seem to be a bit rowdy (one has to remember that a Kolkata based club , not best known for gamemanship within the ground,  has high number of members from this town and many of the supporters were in the ground last time Bagan played there- and misbehaved with the players)