FOOTBALL TEAM OF ESSEL GROUP F.C - 2007

The First Professional Football League of India which will conducting by AIFF may start from next October. Essel Group of Companies who has made an arrangements to play in the second division of the AIFF National Football League and also have managed to fulfil the (AIFF) guidelines.They will also to take part in Mumbai Elite Football League also. They are also looking for foreign players from Africa, Brazil, Turkey and Greece etc and trying to contract some players of Indian origin .The Club also wants to qualify in the IFA shield and Durand Cup other than NFL - 2nd Division. There are also other corporates who are planning to field their teams Reliance (ADA Group), Osian Group, Peninsula Land Limited (Ashok Piramal Group) and J& K Bank.

Goal Keepers Kalyan Chaubey (JCT) Amit Singha Roy (Rly FC / Dempo) Dipankar Choudury (Vasco). Defenders Lolendra Lourembam Singh (Mohun Bagan.Kolkata), Libu C Philip (Viva Kerala), Dane Lloyd Pereira (Mahindra United), Balpreet Singh (JCT) Nilap Ganesh Rao (Howrah Union, Kolkata), John Benadick (BEL, Bangalore), Shemeer A J (Cochin Port Trust), L Romenjit Singh (HKSA, Manipur), Jatinder Singh Sanga (Mahilpur FC). Mid-fielders Jagdish Kumar Pappaih (Sporting Club De Goa), Aseem K (Salgaocar), Khalid Jamil (Mahindra United), Ujjal Kumar Ghosh (Mahindra United), Noel Wislon (Mohammedan Sporting,Kolkata), Bira Oraw (FCI, Kolkata), Rahul Roy (Manohoer Pukur Milon Samiti, Kolkata), Rajib shukla (Kidderpore F.C, Kolkata), Bengkok Nameirakpam (SICO, Manipur). Strikers Abhishek Yadav (Mahindra United), Darren Dominic Caldeira (Mahindra United) Jerome Sebestine (Young Challenger, Calicut). Sports Consultant: Henry Menzes