Prince Rufus, Operations Manager of Mohun Bagan club will be representing Mohun Bagan in AFC seminar to be held in Kuala Lumpur from October 28 to 29. The seminar will be held in an effort to bring in some professionalism into football. 10 I-league club managers has been invited to attend the seminar.

In an effort to bring in some professionalism into Indian football, AFC has invited the 10 I-league club managers at a seminar scheduled to be held at Kuala Lumpur from October 28 to 29. Tottenham Hotspur Executive Director, Paul Barbar will be present during the seminar. Discussion will be held on how to manage a pro club. AFC league Deputy Chairman, Tokuaki Suzuki will explain the objectives and activities of AFC professional league project and how a general manager should function. The AFC hopes to raise the level of general managers in Asia and then aims to increase the professionalism of the personnel who are managing the clubs in AFC Champions League scheduled for this year. Besides India, representatives from Australia, China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Qatar, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam will be present in the seminar.

Prince Rufus, Operations Manager of Mohun Bagan club will be representing the Mariners.  His reactions were "I am very much greatful to club authorities for giving me this opportunity. I am feeling very much proud and this is my single greatest achievment of my career. I am feeling happy to attend the seminar representing the National club of India."

Marcos Perreira signed in favor of Mohun Bagan as the third foreigner. He will be able to play against East Bengal on October 25th. Mohun Bagan has taken Marcos as a lien from JCT for year 2008-09. Dr. Arun Chakraborty accompanied Marcos to Ludhiana and clinched the deal in favor of Bagan. Kuljit Singh has helped Bagan officials regarding the transfer of Marcos.

Mohunbagan yet to register a win I-League. Apparently both Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting wanted to secure full three points to improve their position in the League Table. But the teams end up with a 1-1 draw. It is hard to say which team had the upper hand. Both teams scored a goal each, and missed many.

 Mohun Bagan , with players like Baichung Bhutia, PC Lalawmpuia, Sangram Mukherjee, Habibur Mandal nursing injury, Deepak, Shilton not fully recovered, Marcos yet to get the clearing – went with Shilton, Mohanraj, Odafe, Vasan, Deepak, Masih, L James, Lalkamal, Tulunga, Ishfaq and Barreto.

 MSC scored in the 3rd minute as Mariners defense fail to clear a ball. Thakur placed the ball well in the far post. Bagan midfield, for the first time in the i-League, then started to capture the middle third. For next 20 minutes Bagan attacked, and at times MSC counter attacked.

Barreto and Ishfaq created pressure on MSC defense that looked fragile and in the 24th minute Barreto passed a ball to Tulunga on the right flank, takes his position, gets back the ball from Tulunga and placed it well – and the ball was found kissing the net from inside. Both the teams got bookings – Odafe was booked for handling the ball while Barreto were booked for reasons the referee knows , or perhaps even he didn’t know. Masih was awarded Man of the Match. Even Deepak Mandal could have got this award.

Photos: Saurav Mitra