District Schools Football League to Commence in Kozhikode

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According to reports, Kozhikode District Football Association (KDFA) will conduct a district Schools Football League this year. DSFL will have twenty teams playing in the home and away format.

If everything goes according to plan, the league will kick off on November 1st. KDFA has received entries from 30 odd schools and 20 schools, including Malabar Christian College Higher Secondary School, St. Joseph’s Boy’s Higher Secondary School and Zamorins HSS are confirmed for the league participation.

Any school which has a good ground and a “D” licensed coach can take part in the league. However, these norms have been relaxed as of now, since many schools lack “D” licensed coaches.

The champion school from the district league will win a prize money of 10000 Rs and will secure entry to the state level competition.

I.M Vijayan to Head Kerala Police Football Academy

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I.M. Vijayan- Kerala Police
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Kerala Police once a big name from Kerala in football has lost its sheen now but according to reports as part of their Our Responsibility to Children (ORC) scheme, Kerala Police is planning to set up a football academy in Thiruvanthapuram.

I.M. Vijayan the legendary footballer from the state will be donning the role of the head coach of the academy. Former players Jo Paul Ancheri and P.P Thobias has also extended their cooperation for the proposed academy.

The academy is a brain child of commissioner P Vijayan, who told TOI : “We are not just trying to groom good footballers, but also boost their academic brilliance,” . The proposed academy will be launched in association with the Kerala social security mission (KSSM).

It is understood that another football coaching center in Thrissur is headed by former Kerala Police footballer C.V. Papachan.

AFC A License Course to be held in Kerala

AFCAFC A License Course course will be held in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala. The course will start on October 18th and will go on till November 16th.

Team India technical director Rob Baan and Mr. Vincent Subramanium from Asian Football Confederation (AFC) will be conducting the course. Coaches from all over India is expected to take part in the course.

The candidates selected for the same are as follows:

Luis Mario Aguiar, Levino Pereira and Lino Pereira (Goa); Narayana Menon, Xavier Pious, P.K. Rajeev, V.P. Shaji, Bino George, Jo Paul Ancheri (Kerala); Gautam Ghosh, Satyabrata Bhowmick, Bastab Roy; Achinta Kumar Belel and Anita Sarkar (West Bengal); Kamalkanta Singh (Assam); John Kenneth Raj and C. Ravi Kumar (Karnataka); Arindam Biswas (Pondicherry); N. William Koso and Roko Angami (Nagaland); Bitan Singh and Surmala Chanu (Manipur); Bobby Nongbet (Meghalaya); Mita Michiteru (Japan).

With inputs from AIFF Media article from : http://www.the-aiff.com

IMG – Reliance Looking for Creative Partner for their League

 

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As we reported earlier,  the auctions for franchises were pushed to  October end, but IMG – Reliance seems to be quietly building up their plans for the proposed IPL – style football league.

The latest buzz in the advertisement industry is that IMG – Reliance is looking for a creative partner for their league. Agencies such as McCann Erickson, Leo Burnett and Ogilvy are in the fray.

McCann Erickson currently holds the creative duties of the Reliance owned IPL team Mumbai Indians. In the coming days, it will be more clear who will be offered the creative duties for the proposed IPL Style football League.

Airtel I-league Round 5 Results

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Here are the 5th round matches and the results of Airtel I-league 2013- 14.

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Date : 17th Oct, Telecast : Live on TenAction, 2.30 pm

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Date : 18th Oct, TelecastNo, 4.00 pm

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Date : 19th Oct, TelecastNo, 3.30 pm

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Date : 19th Oct, Telecast : Live on TenAction, 5.00 pm

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Date : 19th Oct, Telecast : Live on TenAction, 7.00 pm

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Date : 20th Oct, Telecast No, 3.30 pm

Delhi Soccer Association DLF – ONGC – ‘ A ‘ Division Football League Championship – 2013

Delhi_SANew Delhi, October 15. A keen tussle is on cards when twenty- two ( 22 ) top affiliated clubs will vie for top honours in the annual DLF – ONGC- Delhi Soccer Association (DSA ) Football League Champions – 2013 scheduled to commence from Sunday, October 20 at DDA CWG Sports Complex, Akshardham.
The highlight of this years.s league will be that apart from local
recruits many outstation and foreign national players will be seen in
action, As many as seventy ( 70 ) outstation players had sought inter –
state transfers from states like West Bengal, Goa, Punjab, Haryana, U.P,
Uttrakhand, Jharkhand, North – East, Odisha etc. in the 1st window of All
India Football Federation (AIFF ) Inter – State transfers of players.
Three ( 3 ) foreign national can be registered but only two players are
eligible to play. The groupings of participating teams were decided by draw
of lots in the club secretaries meeting held in DSA office on September 30.
The teams have been divided in three groups at the preliminary stage which
are as :

Group – A – Royal Rangers FC, IAF ( Palam ), Young Boys FC, Utrakhand FC,
, Garhwal Diamond, Ashoka FC, Cosmos FC.

Group – B – Shastri FC, Young Sports, Royal FC, Collegians FC,
Bangadarshan FC, Friends United, Youngsters FC.

Group – C – N. D. Heroes FC, Moonlight FC, Delhi Cantt. FC, Frontier
FC, Ajmal FC, Rohini FC, Victory FC, Delhi Students FC

The two top teams of each preliminary league group will qualify for super
six league. Top two teams of super six league will be promoted to Senior
Division league from next season.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA ) has constituted a league sub
– committee headed by H. V. Chauhan as chairman, Magan Singh Patwal as
convenor for smooth conduct of the league.

DLF and ONGC will once again be sponsoring the championship while leading
sport goods manufacturing company ‘ COSCO’ India. are the co-sponsors and
Cosco Balls has been appointed as the official ball of the league
championship.

The participating teams have been directed to complete all their necessary
requisite formalities including submission of 30 players registration list
along with their photographs latest by October 15.

Sukhwinder Singh Quits Churchill Brothers

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As we had earlier reported, Sukhwinder Singh has quit Churchill Brothers from the Technical Director role that he has been donning at the club.

Sukhwinder had a difficult start to this season’s campaign. Of the four matches played, Churchill Brothers have lost two and won two, occupying the 11th position in the I-league 2013-14 standings.

In a recent I-league match, Sukhwinder was asked to leave the team dug-out by the match commissioner as he doesn’t hold the requisite qualifications to be a technical director as per guidelines.

Subhash Bhowmick who led the club to title in the 2012-13 season is widely tipped to take over the reigns from Sukwhinder.  With AIFF set to enforce the rule that Technical Directors Subhash Bhowmick, Churchill Brotherwill have to be AFC A-License holders or equivalent while coaches will have to be Pro-License holders, Subhash Bhowmick’s appointment will only server as a stop-gap arrangement.

Sukhwinder Singh and Subhash Bhowmick are not AFC A Licenser holders.

Real Madrid Veterans to Play Matches in India

Real Madrid, India, VeteransAccording to a report in Marca, Real Madrid has chosen India as the next location where they will set up football schools.

Real Madrid already runs football schools in Latin American countries such as Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

It is also reported that Real Madrid veterans such as  Fernando Morientes, Fernando Hierro, Martin Vazquez and Luis Figo will be playing exhibition matches in India. A veteran’s El Classico between Real Madrid and Barcelona is also planned.

And on June 18th this happens!

Also, on AS Football

The presentation ceremony will be held Tuesday June 24 at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid, at 19:30. Will attend the Indian Ambassador in Spain, Mr Sunil Lal.

 

Kerala Junior Striker Ananthu Murali Called up for U-19 National Coaching Camp

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Ananthu Murali, who led the Kerala Junior team at the recently concluded 49th Junior national football tournament for BC Roy Trophy is called up for the U-19 National Team Coaching Camp.

While there has been no official confirmation on the same, the team and academy through which Ananthu Murali came up (Red Star FC) has put an update on their Facebook profile notifying his call up.

Ananthu Murali was in fine form at the  49th Junior national football tournament bagging 10 goals that helped the Kerala team reach finals of Tier II. He was also selected as the best player from Kerala in the Bajaj-Allianz football camp and visited Germany for a football camp with Bayern Munich.

The U-19 National Team 2013/Elite Academy Coaching Camp will commence on October 15 at AIFF Training Centre, Goa.

We at Football News India wish Ananthu Murali all the best for his future endeavors.

Bengaluru FC vs Mohammeden Sporting : The Key Battle that Won the Match

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Guest column by by Yogesh Maurya (Football coach). Today he deconstructs Bengaluru FC’s match against Mohammedan Sporting and talks about the key battle that won the match for the home team

Bengaluru FC, I-leagueThis match was largely about 10 players: 4 Mohammedan Sporting players attacking 6 Bengaluru FC players throughout the match.  The front 4 attacking players for Sporting included the midfielders #8 Penn Orji, #26 Jerry Zirsanaga, and their forwards #9 Josimar D’Silva and #10 Tolgey Ozbey…against the back 4 of Bengaluru FC which included centre halves #6 John Johnson and #4 Curtis Osano, right back #3 Vishal Kumar and left back #20 Keegan Pereira, plus Bengaluru FC midfielders #10 John Menyongar, and at times either #15 Darren Caldeira or #12 Thoi Singh.  Count them up and it was often these 10 players involved in the play as 4v6 and individually as 1v1, 1v2, 2v2, 2v3 and 3v3 battles that decided the game.  When it was all done, Bengaluru FC prevailed, and the reasons reinforce some fairly consistent aspects of this team while revealing some exciting new qualities.

The centre halves:

The obvious first…Johnson and Osano maintain extremely high levels of concentration throughout matches.  It is their intelligent reading of the game with and without the ball, combined with their confidence and effort that leads to them getting to balls first and winning almost all 50:50 battles or tackles.  They rarely make mistakes.  Josimar  and Tolgay were both dangerous and to their credit continued pushing until the last whistle, but lacked any kind of industrious or creative partnership and more importantly, without numbers in support, one always had the feeling it would only be a momentary lapse as happened on the goal by Josimar, that could undo Bengaluru FC.  Josimar’s goal was a well taken header off an excellent cross as he managed to slip between Johnson and Osano with Johnson just misjudging the flight of the ball. No reason to lose sleep over it because really the dynamic duo had an excellent game yet again against a crafty strike force.

The full backs:

In the first half, Mohammedan Sporting attacked primarily down the left flank with success. Vishal Kumar put in a shift but was repeatedly unsuccessful in containing attackers 1v1 leading to several scoring opportunities which Mohammedan Sporting was unable to finish.  Kumar was replaced by #13 Rino Anto in the second half who performed very well, as Mohammedan Sporting found slightly more success in attacking down the right flank against Keegan Pereira who was duly supported by midfielder Darren Caldeira as they attempted to thwart MS attacks which were at times very threatening despite being numbers down due mainly to the 1v1 attacking maturity of Tolgay and the busy buzzing of the playmaker Zirsanga who would eventually be substituted to little effect.

The holding midfielder:

In the first half there was some confusion between Menyongar and Singh in picking Orji up as he positioned himself fairly high up the pitch and was getting the ball in between the lines too easily.  Once the communication was sorted, both players were able to defend Orji as required and took the same understanding into the second half as Orji was forced to drop even deeper to receive the ball. Menyongar did what he usually does…filled the hole in front of the centre halves, kept from over committing himself, and was excellent in finding the free man in transition.

The Man of the Match

For me it was without doubt Thoi Singh who started the match in place of Siam Hangal.  Singh was the busiest player on the pitch, constantly showing for the ball with his team in possession, attacking with pace, making excellent decisions with the ball and doing the dogged defensive work as required.  His intelligently timed runs off the ball often saw him receiving the ball in dangerous areas in between the lines, and he attacked with confidence.  His pace, assembly line work rate, and attacking flare had a massive impact on the match, and I am looking forward to seeing him play more.

Post Scripts:

Counter Attack:

Bengaluru FC continues to show that it is most dangerous on the break. Makes for plenty of excitement.

Indian Strikers:

Sunil Chhetri : Something there sees him slightly out of his usual fine form turning the ball over somewhat cheaply and not yet having the right harmony with Pereira on the left.  Only one way to get out of it…keep working extremely hard and stay positive. He has the class.

Robin Singh : Crowd favourite is improving for sure and hard done not get a penalty after such wonderful defensive work and a great individual run into the box.
Beikhokhei Beingaicho : Has somewhat quietly been one of BFC’s best performers this season…attacking with pace and creativity, and always doing the defensive work asked of him.

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