The Mariners have got a new bunch of boys to don the famous Green & Maroon for the season 2010-11. The team was announced this afternoon at the maidan tent. Honour of being the captainhas been bestowed on Ishfaq Ahmed. The new team is a welcome mix of old and new.

The team:

Goalies

1. Sangram Mukherjee

2. Shilton Paul

3. Proloy Dutta

4. Sudipto Banerjee (Railway FC/ MB Academy – U19)

 

 

 

Central Defense

1. Sk. Azim

2. Sagram Mandi

3. Karan Atwal

4. Kingshuk Debnath (Chirag United SC)

5. Rahul Kumar (Pune FC)

6. Asian Quota

Side-Backs

1. Surkumar Singh (India Camp)

2. Habibur Rahaman Mandal

3. Biswajit Saha

4. Parminder Singh (U19)

5. Dhanarajan R (Chirag United SC)

6. Nagimuddin Mollick (Tollygunje)

7. Suman Dutta (Peerless)

Mid Field

1. Ishfaq Ahmed (Captain)

2. Rakesh Masih

3. Snehasish Chakrabarty

4. Manish Mathani

5. Souvik Chakraborty (MB Academy)

6. Dipendu Dowary (MB Academy – U19)

7. Jayanta Sen (Chirag United SC)

8. Sk. Jewel Raja (Dempo)

9. Gouranga Dutta (Chirag United SC)

10. Satish Kumar (Jr.) (HAL)

11. Santosh Oraon (Railway FC)

12.Surabuddin Mollick (Mohammedan AC)

Forwards

1. Jose Marcio Barreto Ramires

2. Chidi Edeh

3. Muritala Ali (Mahindra United)

4. Ashim Biswas (Chirag United SC)

5. Jagtar Singh (TFA)

6. Jacken Sebastian (Malabar United)

Coaching Team

1. Stanley Rozario H

2. Hemanta Dora

 HAVE A GREAT SEASON BOYS!!

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