Mohun Bagan team for Federation Cup is as follows –
Goal : Sangram Mukherjee, Shilton Paul
Defense : Rakesh Masih, Anwar Ali, Simon Storey, Kingshuk Debnath, Surkumar Singh, Rahim Nabi
Midfield : Satish Kumar Jr., Bungo Singh, N.P.Pradeep, J. Murli, Manish Maithani, Hudson Lima Silva, Jewel Raja
Forward: Jagtar Singh, Ashim Biswas, Sunil Chhetri, Jose Ramirez Barreto(C) Odafa Okolie.
Dr. Protim Roy, Steve Darby, Bernard and Corner are the 4 officials

On behalf of fans, supporters and well wishers, mbc.com wishes all the very best to the squad members and officials for the forthcoming Federation Cup campaign.

In a friendly match Mohun Bagan won 5-1 against Kalighat MS. Nabi, Odafe(2), Jewel and Ashim scored for Bagan. Shilton and Anwar’s mistakes costed Bagan a goal. Odafe was instrumental behind all five goals Bagan scored. Add to it – atleast 5 times either his shot was saved on the goal line or his pass to Sunil or Manish were shot off target by his fellow mates.

This was a game without Jose Barreto. Hence there was an additional load on Odafe. Ad Odafe proved that he is on course to hit peak. A 60% match fit – he was instrumental behind all 5 goals and 5 more opportunities!

 

 

 

 

Such chances were wasted

 

 

 

The striker sparkled against United Sikkim, with a 40% match fitness. His fitness level has slightly gone up – to around 60% in today’s game. Add to it – he was injured in the first half and had to go out of the ground for medical attention.

 

 

 

 

Jewel Raja scores

 

 

 

 

However, Odafe showed his greatness and his sense of final passes within the box. In the last match he played, his understanding with Barreto definitely gave a positive message to the fans and followers. Today’s game is just an indication that, have he be fit – Bagan definitely won’t have a trophyless season this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odafe passes the ball – and Ashim scores the last goal

The Goalz program have been kicked off at Hrishikesh Park, Kolkata today. This is a project that will use football to encourage young talents from across Kolkata to aim becoming a good footballer. The project is been launched by Mohun Bagan (www.mohunbaganac.com), British Council (www.britishcouncil.org), Premier League (www.premierleague.com), Kolkata Police (www.kolkatapolice.gov.in), Kolkata Municipal Corporation (www.kmcgov.in), All India Football Federation (www.the-aiff.com) and Indian Football Association(the-ifa.org)

The Goalz project was launched in Kolkata on 6 July 2011 by Jeremy Browne, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK, and Sovan Chattopadhyay, Hon’ble Mayor of Kolkata. Madan Mitra, Hon’ble Minister of Sports, Kushal Das, General Secretary, AIFF, Rob Lynes, Director British Council India and Commissioner of Police, R K Pachnanda were present.

Today, Mohun Bagan Club President Mr. Swapan Sadhan Bose and Hon. General Secretary, Mr. Anjan Kumar Mitra,  Mr. Steve Darby, Chief Coach of McDowell Mohun Bagan Team; Mohun Bagan Captain Jose Barreto , Vice Captain Shilton Paul players Hudson Lima Silva and Simon Storey. Mr. Debasish Roy, Additional Commissioner of Police (IV) and Mrs. Sujata Sen, Director East India, British Council were also present at the kick off ceremony.

There will be 50 trainees and will be coached by a team of 8 ex- footballers namely Sankarlal Chakraborty, Nirmalya Haldar, Indrani Sarkar, Kalyan Choubey, Arghya Majumdar,  Abhay Kumar, Bernard Oparanozie, Ranjan Bhattacharya.

The long term plan of this programme is to set up and deliver a sustainable model in Kolkata which could then be potentially replicated across India in collaboration with other police departments, municipal authorities and football clubs.

Source : The British Council, Mohun Bagan AC