After long 16 days Okolie Odafa started practice with the ball and he assured that he is ready for the show. But Coach Prasanta Banerjee told that Lima is uncertain in the derby. That is why the Mohun Bagan coaching staffs are trying to push natural right back Daniel Zeleni in the team as a central defender. Meanwhile in the 20th November the first ever derby will be played by Odafa Okolie. But Odafa told that everything depends up to the coaches. Beside that Barreto thinks that opponent’s Okpara, Morgan are the big factor in the 20th derby. But Odafa didn’t take any name particularly as the main or big factor.

Meanwhile, in the reply of Mohun Bagan’s email regarding AIFF Vice President Subrata Dutta’s controversial statement about the colour of derby match tickets AIFF delivered the statement that Subrata Dutta never commented like that.

An email sent to AIFF President Mr. Praful Patel from McDowell Mohun Bagan. The email is about the latest made controversy by Parent body official, some of the media, both print and electronics. As per FIFA and AIFF guidelines McDowell Mohun Bagan is organizing all the home matches and they made the colour of the match tickets green & maroon. But in the next derby match Kingfisher East Bengal supporters are angry about the colour of the tickets because it is the colour of their arch rival. In this connection AIFF Vice President Mr. Subrata Dutta also added some provoking statement regarding this matter. Therefore, McDowell Mohun Bagan have sent the mail regarding this issue to the AIFF.

It is the news regarding the ticket issue published on Bengali Daily Bartaman Patrika (dt. 14.11.11). In this mail McDowell Mohun Bagan also gave proof that it is not the first time where the organisers have made the colour of ticket as per home team’s jersy colour. The gave the example of 2010 FIFA World Cup where the colour of the match tickets same as South Afircan green and yellow colors.

Mr. Anjan Kumar Mitra, Managing Director of McDowell Mohun Bagan, wrote this mail to AIFF on behalf of McDowell Mohun Bagan. They also criticized the the role of AIFF Vice President Mr. Subrata Dutta, who seems to be provoking the East Bengal supporters for his irresponsible statement. But McDowell Mohun Bagan already organized the three home matches successfully and no mishap happened in those matches.

Meanwhile, it has been learnt that Dinesh Nair is in  the referee’s panel in the 20th Derby match.

Source: mohunbaganac.com / Bartaman

Mohun Bagan won the first match of the Kolkata Premier League against Tollygaunge Agragami by 2-1. Gouranga scored both the goals for Bagan. Okorogor scored the lone goal for Tollygaunge. The first goal was scored in the 24th minute and the second at the 34th minute. Okorogor scored in the 84th minute.

Team : Sudipta(U-19), Dhanarajan, Kingshuk, Sourav, Daljit ( Murali), Gouranga,  Pradeep (Goutam), Rakesh, Snehasish, Barreto (c) ( Jagtar), Ashim