The Beach Soccer development seminar held by FIFA for the Cenral and South Asian countries in Kalathura Beach in Srilanka was conculed on 23rd August, 2010. The countries participated were Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Participants from India were Mr.. Hardeo Jadeja and Ex Indian International footballer Mr.Bruno Coutinho.

Participants of FIFA Beach soccer seminar in Srilanka. Sitting from R to L :: M/s Marcelo Mendes FIFA Instructor on Beach soccer,Prageeth - Coordinator from FIFA Colombo office for the Seminar, Marco Schuppe- Incharge of Beach soccer in FIFA, Jurg Nepfer - Head of Education and Technical Department of FIFA, Gabriel E Joseph - AFC Representative for the Seminar and at the extreme left Josep Ponset-Representative of Beach Soccer World Wide Co., Spain. Others are the participants from the above said countries.

The Officials lead the seminar were M/s Jurg Nepfer Head of Education and Technical Dept. of FIFA, Marco Schuppe incahrge of Beach soccer in FIFA, Marcelo Mendes FIFA coaching Instructor for Beach soccer, Gabriel E Joseph the Representative of the AFC, Josep Ponset Representative of Beach Soccer World Wide, Chrysantha Perera CEO of Football Federation Srilanka, Velery Chukhriy FIFA consultant and Manilal Fernando FIFA Development Officer

Gabriel E Joseph the AFC Representative is giving his speech at the Inaugural ceremony of

FIFA Beach soccer Siminar in Srilanka During the seminar there were class room sessions as well as practical sessions on the beach soccer field in Kaluthara in Srilanka where a beach soccer tournament was also arranged to make awarness in the participants. All the participants showed a very interest. They also made presentations on the present situations and their future plans for the development of beach soccer in their coutries. There is a beach soccer World cup since 2005 and the last World cup was played in Dubai. This created lot of interest amongst Asians.

Beach soccer is being popularized by FIFA to create more interest in soccer and to act as a social element to uplift the communities. The beach soccer has many advantages and the soccer players can get trained in beach soccer as a part of their development programme. Good skill, reaction abilities, agility, acrobatic approach, and strength can be developed through the beach soccer.

The presentation of Mr. Gabriel E Joseph the Representative of the Asian Football Confederation was appreciated by the FIFA representatives and the participants alike.

As the first speaker Arindam Basu in his brief but interesting speech argued about the social consequences of Mohun Bagan’s historic win in 1911. Manas Chakraborty in his speech gave entire detail of the background and socio-political impact of the Mohun Bagan’s IFA Shield win in 1911.

Finally Samrat Mukherjee delivered a fantastic speech in this regard from a completely different aspect. The Seminar ended with an enchanting question-answer session. A good number of scholars, teachers and students of different disciplines attended the seminar.

Exclusively Valerian Soccer Foundation also presented a fabulous exhibition regarding the ‘Centenary of Mohun Bagan’s IFA Shield Win in 1911’in this occasion. It was widely appreciated by all the people.

Soumik Dey, Rajib Ghosh, Robin Singh, Susant Mathew,Nirmal Chettri, Sanju Pradhan, Lalchulwama, Ravinder Singh, Gurwinder Singh, Nauba singh, Aseem K, Sunil Kumar, Penn Orji, Sandip Nandy, Bikash Nargenary, Bekhokhei, Budhiram Tudu, Saikat Saha Roy, HArmanjot Kabra, Sulomol Santra, Jayanta Pal, Surojit Dey.

Pune FC played almost their full team with 4 foreigners, Tamba (ex-Mahindra United player), Edmar, Arata, and a Senegal striker on trial. Players like Selwin, Venkatesh, Ajayan and Paresh also were there in Pune FC team. Pune FC though lost today has definitely made a good team this year and will hope to continue with their good performance like last year when they finished 3rd in I league. For Pune, Venkatesh, Ajayan and Edmar had a good match today.

For Salgaokar, only 1 foreigner was there in the team, Lucio. Sueoka has slight injury and so coach Karim did not want to risk him whereas Yakubu will reach Goa on Friday. Kalia Alaudeen, ex-Mahidra player had knee operation last season and he is expected to be fit within a month's time. Salgaokar has so far recruited 3 foreigners. Tomba Singh played for around 65 minutes today and played really well. Apart from him, Sukhwinder, Lucio and Subhash Singh had a good game. Salgaokar has a relatively young team this year with few good experienced players.

In fact, age of Anthony, Beevan, and Dawson who scored in today's match are only 22, 23 and 19 years. With coach Karim in charge of this well balanced team, we may see them performing well in All India tournaments this year.

Surprised! Don’t be. They are the resultant of the unique idea of Indian Football development. They are the first step of Indian world Cup dream. They are U-19 AIFF Development XI Football team who is allowed to compete with other 13 top giants of India like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Chirag United, Dempo, Churchill Brothers, JCT etc. in the upcoming I-League to be started from 20th Nov.

In place of Mahindra United AIFF has introduced them as a fresher. Most of the team boys played 2009-10 SAF Games Tournament at Bangladesh, where they got 3rd place and Four Members of the team like Subodh Kumar, Jwell Raja, Jeje Lalpekhula and Jagtar Singh were the members of the SAAF Cup 2010 winning India U-23 team played at Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Various people have pointed out about the Indian Football infrastructural failure in football which actually never helped India to have top notch in World Football. So, AIFF started to think out of box & the result is this unique idea.

This 24 member team is also being polished under Desmond Bulpin, who is known for coaching budding footballers, has been roped in by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to coach its U-19 side to take part in the 2010-11 I-League season. He is credited for the success of England striker Peter Crouch alongwith Sabir Pasha (Asst. Coach) & Tanumoy Bose (GK Coach) at Ambedkar Stadium, Delhi (which will be treated as their home ground).

This team will give the acid test in the upcoming ILeague as they will also be sent in the SAAF Cup. As they are the future of Indian Football & many of the senior team members will retire from International Football after the Doha Asia Cup – every Indians dream of getting success in International Standard will surrounded with these young stars feet.

The team is included with 3 Goal Keepers, 9 Defenders, 9 Midfielders & 4 Forwards. The future faces of Indian Football is ready to make the magic moments in the field & we, the Indian Football Lovers are also ready for another CHAK DE with the new glory of passion of honest & sheer effort to bring the dream come true.

The ice has started melting & the days counting for achieving the ultimate passionate experience is in the range. So in this I-League not only support the established else being the true Indian support the dream of stepping out of Indian Football in the International arena. Be ready to feel the young energy, to clap for youth glory, to feel spectacular battle from heart & be passionate more about Indian Football.

Glorious Manchester United The winner of 1908 . with their haul, the Charity Shield, the League Trophy and the Manchester Cup.
PIC Courtesy : www.manutd.com

Being the centenary year of this historic win, this year will be a remarkable one for the Green and Maroon fanatics all over the globe. Our club officials already paid their tribute to the “Immortal XI” by awarding all the Mariners with the “Mohun Bagan Ratna” on 29th July this year. Being a fan club, Sabuj Maroon Swapno tried to tribute the “Immortal” mariners whenever we got the chance. Back in 2008, we reinstalled the historic bench that is related to the “Immortal XI” in the club lawn. Just day before the “Mohun Bagan Day” this year, we put a glow sign containing the picture of the “Immortal XI”. Today again we pay our heartiest respect to the “Immortal XI” in a beautiful program in Muktangan Theater Hall, near Rashbehari, Kolkata.

Muktangan was dressed up in Green and Maroon color from the early morning. The program started sharp at 11 a.m. with a Rabindra Sangeet. The entire hall was blossomed with the Green and Maroon spirit sooner as Mayukh-Mainak, the Music Composer of the film “Egaro-The Eleven” along with Avik, one of the lead singer of this film came to the stage and rocked the audience with two beautiful songs “Amader Surjo Maroon” and “E Sudhu Khela noy, Sangram” from this movie. The entire audience was backed in the fighting days of 1911 via those songs of this brilliant musical pair and they just tuned the audience in a high tempo.

After that we felicitated our honourable guests. Mr. Atindra Nath Sen, the Football Secretary of Mohun Bagan AC, Mr. Kashinath Das, the Cricket Secretary of Mohun Bagan AC and Mr. Sishir Kar and Mr. Debkumar Chatterjee, two Executive Committee members were present in today’s program along with Mr. Satyajit Chatterjee, Mr. Shyamal Banerjee and Mr. Pranab Ganguly. We were fortunate enough to get three of our “Ghorer Chhele”, Mr. Satyajit Chatterjee, Mr. Shyamal Banerjee and Mr. Pranab Ganguly as our guests in today’s program. It’s a bit unfortunate for all of us that our club Secretary Mr. Anjan Kumar Mitra was unable to attend the program due to his health problem, but his best wishes helped us to deliver this programme with great endeavor. After felicitation of our honourable guests, we came to the most important section of this programme i.e. felicitation to the “Immortal XI”. On behalf of Sabuj Maroon Swapno, our honourable guests felicitated the “Immortal XI” with special green and maroon scurf, rose sticks and a beautiful specially designed memento, a collage of “Immortal XI”.

The second half of the program started with the song of inspiration by Tagore “Aguner Poroshmoni” by the grand Daughter-in-Law of Hiralal Mukherjee, the last defender of the 1911 squad. Then the time came for our “Geeti Alekhya”. The theme of the Geeti Alekhya was Mohun Bagan, Nationalism and Rabindra Sangeet. The detail of the IFA Shield victory of Mohun Bagan in 1911 was presented with a sweet blending of Rabindra Sangeet and this was a unique approach from the side of Sabuj Maroon Swapno. This is the first time ever, when 1911 IFA Shield victory has been presented along with the mixture of Rabindra Sangeet – Tagore, Mohun Bagan and “Immortal XI”. This nice programme was staged by the members of Sabuj Maroon Swapno. A program of almost three hours was concluded by the vote of thanks by the President of Sabuj Maroon Swapno, Mr. Sunandan Banerjee.

We personally thank again the family members of these great players, the guests, the media personalities and the audiences present in today’s program to make our effort a grand success. From a fan club’s perspective it is a great feeling for all of us to pay tribute to the “Immortal XI” in such a grand way. Today all of us feel really proud by seeing the picture of all the family members of these great players in a same platform. Until the Earth exists our beloved Mohun Bagan will be there with all its glory and “29th July and Immortal XI” will be in the heart of each and every Mohun Bagan supporters. On behalf of the Green and Maroon fans all over the globe we convey Green and Maroon salute to the “Immortal XI”.

REPORT: Sunandan Banerjee : Sobuj Maroon Swapno, Fan Club of Mohun Bagan.

22nd Aug :(3.30 PM) : W.B. Police   VS   Eastern Railway (Khardah)
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23rd Aug :(3.30 PM) :Tollygunge Agra.   VS   Aryan (Barasat)

23rd Aug :(3.30 PM) :Southern Samity.   VS   Port Trust (KEB)
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24th Aug :(3.30 PM) :Kalighat Club.   VS  Mohammedan AC ( Khardah)

24th Aug :(3.30 PM) :Railway FC   VS  Kalighat MS ( Barasat)
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26th Aug :(3.30 PM) :BNR   VS  Tollygunge Agra.( MSC)

26th Aug :(3.30 PM) :George Telegraph   VS  Aryan ( KEB)
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27th Aug :(3.30 PM) : W.B.Police   VS  Peerless( Khardah)
27th Aug :(3.30 PM) : Eastern Railway   VS  Kalighat MS( Kalyani)
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