Mohun Bagan’s team for the 1st match of the I-League 2012-013 has been announced. The squad consists of 18 players.

 

 

 

 Mohun Bagan’s team for the first I-league match against Shillong Lajong F.C. is:

 

Goalkeepers: Arindam Bhattacharya,Shilton Paul.



Defenders: Echezona Celestine,Khelemba Singh,Aibor Khonjee,Nirmal Chettri,Syed Rahim Nabi,Biswajit Saha,Lalrozama Fanai.



Midfielders: Jewel Raja,Denson Devadasan,Snehashis Chakrabarthy,Manish Maithani,Rakesh Masih,Stanley Cyprian.



Forwards: CS Sabeeth,Odafa Onyeka Okolie,Tolgay Ozbey.

Officials: Santosh Kashyap(Coach), Uttam Saha(Manager), Dr. Protim Ray(Team Doctor), Joseph Ronald(Fitness Coach), Jonathan Corner(Physiotherapist).

The team will leave for Shillong tomorrow.

There has been romours and gossips regarding Odafa’s relationship with some players and officials of other clubs. Odafa himself have denied and clearly mentioned to the fans that he, as captain of Mohun Bagan, will focus only on Mohun Bagan and he has no differences with any other player in the team. The Club president has also come up with a Press Release for the same.

30-Sep, 2012



Dear All,



For the past few days a purposeful/deliberate campaign is going on to demoralize/ malign our beloved Club during the season. Mainly it started from one news about our Captain, Odafa and Tolgay. I have personally spoken to our Captain, Odafa Okolie in person today to find out what is the matter and after talking to him I am confident that some vested interest wants to spread all sorts of rumour about our Coach/ players. He said that the only Team on his mind till the end of the season is MOHUN BAGAN. He has also said that the whole Team is United and the entire Team will give its best in the I League.



I have also had talks with the General Secretary, Mr. Anjan Kumar Mitra; Asst. General Secretary, Mr. Srinjoy Bose and Finance Secretary, Mr. Debashis Dutta and they have confirmed and I have understood that there is no division in the Team and the Team is fully focused on the I League.



I reiterate again that this is a heinous campaign and I am assuring all our members and supporters that our Captain, Odafa Okolie is going to continue. 



I would also take this oppurtunity to ask the Members, supporters and fans of our Club to cheer up, have patience and be optimistic and also root for the Team for the rest of the season, as always. I am sure that the Team will exhibit strenght, team-work and character and justify the faith imposed by all of us. JAI MOHUN BAGAN!



Regards,

Swapan Sadhan Bose (Tutu)

President, Mohun Bagan Athletic Club

mohunbaganclub.com tries to bring in a report on Practice sessions of various clubs of the world. These sessions perhaps would feed in some necessary input to the coach Santosh Kashyap, the players and the support staff – as the team Mohun Bagan is getting for iLeague now. Today – we bring in some input on Tito Vilanova’s team.

Barcelona clearly has two teams – senior team and team B ( reserve team of team A) – in  Spain, the reserve team play in the same league system as the senior team.  However, they cannot play in the same division. FC Barcelona’s Team B is called Futbol Club Barcelona B.

The practice session timing for the whole week is announced beforehand. This can happen in the morning as well as in the evening. Weather reports and match schedules do have an impact on the roasters.

During practice session selective players of Team B are invited to practice with the seniors. The injured players or players with fitness problems stay in the gym to do specific work to help gain fitness. They work out in isolation from the rest of the squad.

21 players of the senior team usually practice together until a player is injured and isolated.

Initially the players flock together and the coach brief the team about the upcoming game, the opponent, their strengths and weaknesses, strategies and target.

The players then jog for a while and perform some free hand exercise.  This is mostly done at the midfield area.

This is followed by football drills. This include –

a) Passing drills

b) Dribbling drills

c) Shooting drills

d) Control drills

e) Heading drills

Goalkeepers go for the goal keeping drills as well.

This is followed by ‘with the ball’ session. Here the players practice passing and ball control for a while.

Following drills are considered for with the ball drills –

1) Call to receive – here around 6 players constantly pass 5 balls to each other in a random manner and each will have to pass the ball to a team mate in one touch

2) Avoiding obstacls – here two players have some obstacles between them and will have to pass the ball to each other without hitting the obstacles with the ball

3) Circle drill – Here one player will be inside a circle of players and all others in the circle will have a ball each. They will pass on the ball to the player inside the circle – he will have to receive it and send it back to the originator

4) Short and long passes – here the players go for a shorter pass to another player – and then the second player go for a log pass to a third player. The third player receive the ball – go for a short pass to a fourth player who then opt for a long pass to the first player.

5) Backward and Forward – here a player passes the ball to a second player – then jogs a bit – comes back to his position and then receives the pass from the second player – passes the ball back to the second player – jogs once again and so on.

For Dribbling drills the players opt for straight races and obstacle races.

Various shooting drills are taken care of ( one may recall Bagan’s recent failure in the Federation Cup was due to poor shooting ability) – this include –

a) 1-2 shoot

b) Turn and shoot

c) First to the ball and shoot

d) Cross, control and shoot

e) Collect and shoot

f) Running at angles

g) Pass, pass and shoot or pass, run and shoot

h) Dribble and shoot

For heading drills – throw in and heading and heading for near and far posts are practised. Both offensive and defensive headings are considered.

For the goalkeepers – emphasizes are done on anticipation, decision making and catching.

Afterwards,  two player form a team and go for stamina building runs together. This is followed by obstacle course.  Then by keeping the simulate human figures an attacker and a defender go for the ball – the attacker would have to get past the defender with the ball while the defender needs to foil the attack.

Then the players go for short playing sessions for each half before they conclude the training for the day.

Disclaimer :  These input are from various websites as available. mohunbaganclub.com acknowledges the same