Chidi Barreto retained; new Co-sponsor

Mohun Bagan has retained the two key goal-getters for the team and forward duo of Jose Ramirez Barreto (Brazil) and Edeh Chidi (Nigeria). The team management has announced the same here on monday.

The team management has ended all speculations about Chidi and Barreto in the Press conference today. The two will continue playing for Mohun Bagan for the season 2010-2011. Incidentally both have got goals in regular intervals this season. The management will announce the the name of the third foreigner when they announce the full team.
 
Mohunbaganclub.com has learnt that there are few names including Muritala Ali of Mahindra United and Shillong FC defender Daniel Bidemi. 
Ryuji Sueoka might not be there in the team and in case Bagan opts for Muritala – there can be a defender from Kuwait to fill in the gap of the Asian quota.
 
The team, which has McDowell as its title sponsor, announced the name iCore, as a co-sponsor for the next season. 

Picture Courtesy : Bartaman

Rebuilding the Management

Mohun Bagan Club’s Executive Committee met on 15th May 2010 and nominated Mr. Anukul Maity as the new Vice President of the club. Beside Mr. Maity, the other Vice Presidents are Mr. Subrata Mukherjee, Mr. Gitanath Ganguly, Mr. Radheshyam Agarwal, Dr. Rathin Chakraborty and Mr. Kumarshankar Bagchi.

 The officials have also informed that the Mens Football Team is going to have a new Co-Sponsor for the next season. The name of the co-sponsor will be announced and the Team jersey for the new season will be unveiled and handed over to the Senior Players at 5 pm on Monday, 17th May, 2010.  A press conference will be held in the club tent.

Bagan 2-1 KEB :Bagan better in defense , midfield and attack

The Mohun Bagan supporters will be delighted, that team Mohun Bagan have managed to beat the Federation Cup champions by 2-1, by scoreline and also by the number of wins in the season.

Although there were no surprises in Bagan’ formation, the actual tactics were slightly different today. They defended extremely narrowly against KEB, almost forcing KEB to go around the defense rather than through it. It was a more traditionally-spaced back four – Surkumar, Azim, Deepak and Mohanraj, playing higher up the pitch. Masih was in the libero position – and hence there was a defensive screen before the defense. Barreto  and Chidi played up against the KEB centre-backs, with Sueoka and later Snehasish doing well to drop into midfield to pick up KEB’s deep defense with or without possession.
 
Bagan consistently looked to Sueoka, and he caused KEB no end of problems. Saumik was only supposed to track him as far as the halfway line, Okpara would cover Barreto and Mehraj and Khabra would take care of Chidi. But in the 13th minute the playmaker Sueoka open for a pass as he came to the wing, and the responsibility fell to Barreto to head – and Bagan was up 1-0. Before this  goal – Sueoka himself went into the position  but messed up with the ball and hit it at the sidenet.
 
The resulted in the KEB’s full-backs playing extremely high up the pitch even when not in possession, and therefore basically left a 2 v 4 situation at the back. Its Barreto and Chidi vs the four defendes of KEB. Okpara started chasing Barreto – and at times was found fouling him inside Bagan defensive third.
 
Okpara was not the only one to hit Bagan players – Khabra, Hammond, Mehtab, Saumik joined in soon. While Nabi tried to play some creative football others were found busy hitting Bagan players.
 
Then in the 86th minute Sueoka was able to drag Saumik, making it perfect for counter-attacks, and his final pass found Snehasish breaking quickly KEB defense and it was 2-0.
 
KEB defensehad the beating of Sueoka both for pace and in the air.
 
Bagan’s intention to secure 3 points by holding the ball was seen before Bhaichung snatched a ball – passed it to Sanju Pradhan whose final in the far post found Yakubu and Yakubu scored the lone goal for KEB of the match. Seconds after this goal referee Suresh blew the final whistle.
Picture courtesy : Sangbad Pratidin