Mohun Bagan arrived at Cuttack today morning and they started practice at local police ground in the after-noon session. Edeh Chidi the injured striker of Mariners had a gym session but he still is not feeling well as per fitness is concerned. He will miss the first match and may miss the second match too. Coach Stanley Rozario doesn’t want to take any risk.

Meanwhile Mohun Bagan team management decided that Diamondstar will play as a defensive blocker at the midfield. If Mohun Bagan shines in Federation Cup Diamondstar has to play well. Coach Stanley Rozario told that their upfornt is best of all but the team has to defend its goal, otherwise it will be so tough to do better in the tournament.

Meanwhile Lajong FC team also arrived in the city at night, they will meet Mohun Bagan in  the first match Group D on 22nd September, Wednesday.

The Chairman of Federation Cup Akrur Dutta announced that Champion Team will  get prize money of Rs. 12,00,000 and Runners will get Rs. 7,00,000 prize money as well.

Mariners are preparing for 32nd Federation Cup will be held at Cuttack. Mariners will depart from Kolkata on Monday by air for Cuttack. They will meet the Qualifying team of Group A of Qualifying round. There had a practice match against Kalighat Club at the club ground yesterday, where Mohun Bagan got victory by a goal scored by Snehasis.

For the preparation of Federation Cup mariners are practicing hard and Jose Barreto told that they will get result of the hard practice at Fed Cup. .

Meanwhile Edeh Chidi, the dependable Bagan striker  will be missed the opening match due to his injury, he may be in the team from the second match.

Today after practice session in the morning the team of 20 players for 32nd Federation Cup has been announced.

The team is like that: Sangram Mukherjee, Shilton Paul, Pralay Dutta. Dhanrajan R, Kinshuk Debnath, Karan Atwal, Okwy Diamondstar, Rahul Kumar, Sagram Mandi, Sk. Azim, Gouranga Dutta, Ishfaq Ahmed (captain), Manish Maithani, Jayanta Sen, Snehasish Chakraborty, Souvik Chakraborty, Ashim Biswas, Jose Barreto, Chidi Edeh, Subair Muritala Ali.

 

Here is the list of matches will be played by Mohun Bagan in the group league stage at Cuttack mentioned below:

September 22: Mohun Bagan A.C. vs Lajong FC

September 24: Mohun Bagan A.C. vs Mumbai F.C.

September 26: Mohun Bagan A.C. vs Salgaokar S.C.

All the matches of Cuttack and Semifinals, Final will be held at Barabati Stadium. The dates of Semifinals are 29th and 30th September, Final will be played on 2nd October, 2010.

MOHUNBAGANCLUB.COM wishes the team a grand success for the forthcoming tournament.

IFA has accepted the proposal of Mohun Bagan that not to play in Salt Lake Stadium the next league match against George Telegraph. It was scheduled earlier that Mohun Bagan vs George Telegraph match will be held at YBK instead of MB ground on 15th September. But in the match against Chirag, Edeh Chidi was injured and he had to leave the ground. As per MB officials it has happened due to artificial turf of Salt Lake Stadium and they will not play any match at this ground before Federation Cup. They wanted to play at their own ground. But due to some unavoidable circumstances the match has been postponed and it will be held after Fed Cup.

Meanwhile another match which was scheduled for Mohun Bagan  to play on 18th September  against Railway Football Club, it has been postponed already due to preparation of the team for Fed Cup.

As we know Federation Cup is the most favourite trophy for Mariners over the year. Out of 31st time Mohun Bagan got the champions trophy 13th time and reached to the final 17th time. It has been most prestigious soccer tournament of India after I-League.

Last year mariners fall short of target as they are beaten by arch rival Kingfisher East Bengal in the semifinal.

However, Mohun Bagan will strat their Fed Cup campaign against Qualifying team (Group A) of Fed Cup on 22nd September, 2010 at Cuttack. The knock-out phase will also been played at Cuttack.