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Malabar Premier League – Facts and Figures

May 2, 2015 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

First edition of Malabar Premier League recently got concluded. MSP Delta Force emerged champions of the first season. Here are some facts and figures from the first edition of the tournament. The numbers and facts were sourced from various news reports that appeared about Malabar Premier League.

Facts and Figures

Earnings from ticket sales for the 1st edition of the tournament was around 7.5 lakhs. Where as the expenditure for running the league was around 75 lakhs.
The prize money for the 1st edition was 1 lakh and the runners-up bagged 50,000 INR. Semifinalists were rewarded with 25000 INR.
First edition of MPL gave opportunities for an array of players. MSP Delta Force team comprised mainly of MSP School students and other teams had many college students in their ranks too.
15 matches were played in the 1st edition and 55 goals were scored.
2nd edition of Malabar Premier League could see foreign players in action for teams.
MPL organizers are looking to get accreditation for the tournament from AIFF. If AIFF doesn’t recognize the tourney, foreigners cannot take part.
Second edition of MPL will also feature team from other districts in the Malabar region. First edition only featured teams from Malappuram

Malabar Premier League to kickoff on April 11

March 3, 2015 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

With the aim of providing a good platform for football players in Malappuram, district sports council and the district football association has joined hands to launch Malabar Premier league. The first edition of the league will kickoff on April 7 and will go on till April 30.

The logo and crest for the tournament was unveiled by minister Kunhalikutty in Malappuram yesterday. In attendance were the office bearers of district sports council and football association along with former Indian internationals Sharaf Ali, I.M Vijayan and Kurikesh Mathew.

Malabar Premier League which was conceived to provide much needed fillip for the sport in Malappuram, which is considered as the Mecca of football in Kerala, has got a nod from Kerala Football Association too.

The tournament will Kick off at the recently renovated Kottapady stadium. District Sports Council and the District Football Association will market and brand the league. Malappuram district would be divided in to eight zones and one team from each zone can participate in the league. Teams from each zone can selected players who are registered with KFA. Apart from the players from the district, teams can include players from other regions upon registering them for the tournament.

The onus of the league is provide a platform to perform for the players in the district and in-turn use the income from the league to prop up basic sports facilities in the district.

Tamil Nadu Announce Santosh Trophy 2014-2015 Squad

January 14, 2015 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

Tamil Nadu football Association (TFA) has announced a 20 member squad for the 69th National football championship played for the Santosh Trophy. Tamil Nadu will play the south zone qualifiers at the MSDC stadium in Manjeri. Tamil Nadu is in Group B along with Services and Pondicherry. Tamil Nadu will kick off their South Zone campaign when they meet Pondicherry on the 18th of January.

Fixtures :

18/01/2015	4	Pondicherry	Tamil Nadu
20/01/2015	6	Tamil Nadu	Services

Team :

Ajmal (Indian Bank/Chennai)
Vugneswaran (Chennai FC/Chennai)
PremKumar (RBI/CHennai)
Wayne Antoniou’s Silva (Indian Bank/ Chennai)
G V Hariharana (Customs/Chennai)
Sivapriyan (RBI/Chennai)
M Gnana Sekaran (Indian Bank/Chennai)
S Santosh Kumar (S.Railway/Chennai)
John Carlo (ICF/Chennai)
Praveendran (FCI/Chennai)
Sudhakar (AG’s Office/Chennai)
Vikram Patel (AG’s Office/Chennai)
Mijo Jose (Indian Bank/Chennai)
Soosairaj (Chennai City FC/ Chennai)
Regan (AG’s Office/Chennai)
H Ameerudeen (Income Tax/Chennai)
Edwin (Indian Bank/Chennai)
Rajkumar (ICF/Chennai)
Suresh Kumar (Cuddalore)
Suraj Bahadur (Nilgiris)

Coach – M Narayana Murthy (SAI, Chennai)
Manager – K Radha Krishnan (VP TFA)
Physio – Dr. Ragunath Manogaran

Odisha Announce Santosh Trophy 2014-2015 Squad

January 14, 2015 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

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Football Association of Odisha (FAO) has announced a 20-member State team to participate in the 69th national Football Championship for Santosh Trophy-2015 (East Zone Qualifying Round) to be held at JRD Sports Complex, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand from January 15 to 20. Sk Zahid would lead the team as captain. Akshya Das, Ashok Panda and Shuvendu Panda would accompany the team as coach, goalkeeper coach and manager respectively.

Odisha would meet Sikkim, Chhattishgarh and Railways on January 16,18 and 20 respectively.

Team:

Sk. Kamaluddin (Cuttack), Laxman Murmu (Mayurbhanj), U.Shyam Sunder Reddy (Cuttack), Sk. Zahid (Cuttack), Sk. Shahabaaz Alam (Rourkela), Sk Rohit (Cuttack), Rudra Prasad Pradhan (Sports Hostel), Janmo Xess (Rourkela), Mukesh Kumar Bhoi (Baragarh), Sk. Mustakim (Railway), Mohasin Khan (Cuttack), Surendra Soren (Sports Hostel), Sunil Marndi (Angul), Antarjami Naik (Angul), Sankho Marandi (Bhubaneswar), Md Meraj Khalid Danish (Jajpur), Ramdas Hansdah (Odisha Police), Sk. Juber (Cuttack), Ranjit Kerketta (Rourkela), Mohammad Imtiaz (Cuttack).

Kerala Announce Santosh Trophy 2014-2015 Squad

January 13, 2015 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

Kerala Football Association has announced a 20 member squad that will participate in the 69th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy due to start in Manjeri on 15th Jan.

Team consists of 11 new faces with KSEB player V.V Surjith leading the squad.

Team :

Usman Ashik, Johnson, Sajith, Sherin Sam, Suhair, Rahul D Raj, Nasaruddeen, Jobin Justin, Sreerag, Shaijumon, Jinshad, Shibinlal, Sandesh M, Jijo Joseph, Ashkar, Nishad, Mithun, Nikhil Soman

Coach : P.K Rajeev, Bino George

Delhi Announce Santosh 2014-2015 Trophy Team

January 11, 2015 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

Forward Deepak Mehra will lead a 20-member Delhi State senior
Football team in the 69th Senior National football Championship for Santosh
Trophy-2014-2015 ( North Zone leg ) beginning at Jalandhar ( Punjab ) from
January 10 to 15

The Delhi Soccer Association ( DSA ) selection committee consisting of

Sharafatullah, convenor- Rajeev Gupta, Dilip Ghosh, Hafiz Shahid and
Bikramjeet, after a fifteen days open -cum – coaching camp held at CWG
Village Sports Complex, Akshardham announced Abhishelk as vice-captain and
the team which is as under:-

Goal-keepers : Vikrant Sharma, Sandeep Bisht , Rakshit

Defenders : Pawan Joshi, Yogesh Kumar, Sumit Rawat, Pushpender
Kundu, Sonu, Abhishek ( Vice-captain), Vijay Kumar

Mid-fielders : Ashu Nathani, Dilsher Singh, Adil, Monu Choudhary,
Deepak Devrani

Forwards : Deepak Mehra ( Captain ), Abhay Rana, Shahin John,
Mahinder Kumar, Vikas Rawat

Officials : Liquat Ali ( Manager ), Dharmender Kharola, Aftab
Ashraf -( Coaches ).

Eight ( 8 ) north Zone teams viz., Hosts- Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh,
Uttrandkhand, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir & Haryana are
participating in the competition. Teams have been divided in two groups.
The top teams of each group will qualify for the final round of the
championship.

Delhi open its campaign against Himachal Pradesh tomorrow.

Delhi Announce Squad for Sub Junior National Football Championship

December 11, 2014 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

Defender Aniket Singh Thakur will lead a 20- member Delhi State Sub-Junior Football team in the National Football Championship scheduled to be held in Sunder Nagar, Himachal Pradesh from December 12 to 19. Delhi will be playing their inaugural match on 12th against Uttarakhand.

Defender Aniket Singh Thakur will lead a 20- member Delhi State Sub- Junior Football team for participation in the National Football Championship for Coca – Cola scheduled to be held from December 12 to 19 in Sunder Nagar, Delhi will be playing their inaugural match against Uttrakhand on December 12 followed by Haryana on Dec. 14 and hosts-
Himachal Pradesh on Dec.16. Mid- fielder Ayush Adhikari was named as vice-captain of the team which was announced by DSA selection committee consisting of Chairman – Magan Singh Patwal, Convenor- Bhola Nath Karmakar, Coaches – Uttam Negi and Imran Ahmed Khan after conclusion of a fifteen days selection – cum – coaching camp held at DDA Jasola Camp and Modern School, Barakhamba Road. The team members selected are as :

Goal Keepers :

Dhurav Kumar, Lakshay Ranwan, Yathaarth Kansal

Defenders :

Aniket Singh Thakur (Captain), Mehul Verma, Naman Sharma, Surya Mann, Mukal

Midfielders :

Chirag Narang, Ankit Rawat, Ayush Adhikari (Vice-captain), Dyujoty Majumdar, Kabir Gujral, Sanel Biswas, Allan Chaoudahry

Forwards :

Harhal Pandey, Naman Malhotra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Ritesh Saraf, Arsh Diman

Stand Byes :

Gagandeep, Jai Karan Singh, Suryanshu, Lakshay

The officials accompanying the team are : Bhola Nath Karmakar- Manager, Uttam Singh Negi – Coach, Imran Ahmed Khan – Goal-keeper coach

Indian Football team may miss out on Asian Games 2014

August 26, 2014 footballnewsindia Leave a comment

Reports are surfacing that the Indian football team may miss out on participating in the upcoming Incheon Asian games 2014. With Indian Olympic Association submitting a bumper list of 900 people including athletes and officials, to the sports ministry for approval for travelling to the Sept. 19-Oct. 4 Games in the South Korean city of Incheon, sports ministry would be forced to prune the list.

Lacklustre performance against Pakistan in the recently friendlies have also not helped the team’s chances. SAI director Jiji Thomson was in attendance at the Bangalore stadium when the Indian team comprising mainly under-23 players took on the Pakistan team.

Jiji Thomoson was quoted in Times of India saying :

“I am a football fan and I was present at the match. I can only say that the performance was very disappointing,”

If the team is not cleared by the ministry, All India Football Federation would be forced to pay from their pockets to send the team for Asian games 2014. In an article in The Telegraph a senior official is quoted that the government will not bear the cost of the men’s and women’s football teams in the Asian Games 2014.

“A final decision would only be taken after a week, but there is every chance the government would not bear the cost of the men’s and women’s football teams in the Asian Games. Of course, the AIFF (All India Football Federation) can send the team on their own,”

However this is not the first time that the football team is being forced out of Asian Games by government. In 1990 and 1994 the government had stopped the football team from going for the Asian Games.