Monday 21 July is a big day for Indian soccer. The excitement associated with the Indian Premier League player selection process by the various team owners annually is all set to hit Indian football, as the first player draft for the Star India and IMG-Reliance promoted Hero MotoCorp Indian Super League (ISL) gets underway. Up for grabs will be domestic footballers and the various teams will be putting up their bids to acquire them until Wednesday.
While the draft will be done along the lines of Major League Soccer of US, two franchises - Videocon Group owned Goa team and Bollywood actor John Abraham’s Guwahati team - will not be participating in it. Reason: the two have already selected their players from their respective I-League teams namely Dempo, Salgoancars and Shillong Lajong.
According to a PTI report, a total of 92 players will be available to the franchises at the draft. The list includes 32 players from the I-League clubs (on loan) and the rest are players who have been directly signed for the central pool by IMG-Reliance. Among those are players like internationals Gourmangi Singh and Nirmal Chetri.
Sources expect close Rs 25 crore to be spent during the three day player draft. The I-League clubs which have released their players to take part in the first edition of the tournament are Kolkata's glamour outfits East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, Mumbai FC, United SC and Rangdajied United FC.
On Wednesday, 23rd July (23-7-14) The second day of Drafting of players by 8 teams to the 2014 Hero Indian Super League in Round 8,9,10,11,12 has been completed and the ISL teams list have been updated.
On Tuesday 22nd July (22-7-14) , on First day of Drafts, Seven rounds of ISL drafting in has been completed and the results are updated. [HASHTAG]#HeroISL[/HASHTAG] [HASHTAG]#ISLDraft[/HASHTAG]
The Hero ISL 2014 Indian Super League event will kick start from 19-9-2014 (19 September) to November 2014, with 8 teams Atletico de Kolkata, Team Bengaluru, Team Goa, North East United (Assam), Kerala Blasters, Team Mumbai , Team Pune, Delhi Dynamos.
Indian Super League is formed by AFC All India Football Federation, IMG and Reliance Industries and sponsored by Hero Motocorp and the footbal matches will be shown Live by Official tv partners Star Sports channel.
Details of list of all players who were purchased by Franchises for Hero Indian Super League is being updated as the Drafting (not auction) goes live from Mumbai and results are coming out.
Draft Picks of 2014 Indian Super League Teams and Players List at the end of 12 rounds on 2 days is updated and the list of players in each team is as follows.
Kerala Blasters FC Team Players List (Kochi in Kerala) Sachin Tendulkar
Atletico de Kolkata Team Players List (Calcutta / Kolkata in West Bengal) Sourav Ganguly
Baljit Sahni - Forward
Subhasish R Chowdhury - Goal Keeper
Lester Fernandes - Winger
Kingshuk Debnath - Defender
Sanju Pradhan - Winger
Mohammed Rafique - Forward
Atletico de Kolkata
Mohammed Rafi - Forward
Biswajit Saha - Defender
Arnab Mondal - Defender
Denzil Franco - Defender
Cavin Lobo - Midfielder (East Bengal)
Rakesh Masih - Midfielder
Marque Players - Luis Garcia (Spain), Borja Fernandez (Spain), Ofentse Nato (Botswana)
Atletico de Kolkata's Team Manager is Antonio López Habas from Spain.
Delhi Dynamos Delhi Dynamos FC Team Players List (New Delhi in Delhi)
Marque Players - Bruno Cirillo (Iatly), Emanuele Belardi (Iatly)
FC Pune City's Team Manager is Franco Colomba from Italy
Now everyone's focus is on the selection of players to Indian Super League 2014 and which team franchises will win the best players through the selections conducted by auction.
Auction Dates of 2014 Hero ISL - Monday, 21 July 2014 to Wednesday 23 July 2014.
Atletico de Kolkata on Tuesday signed seven Indian players on day one of the two-day inaugural eight-team Hero Indian Super League domestic players draft held here.
Atletico de Kolkata signed up Arnab Mondal, Mohammed Rafi, Mohammed Rafique, Rakesh Masih, Cavin Lobo, Biswajit Saha and Denzil Franco.
The club is looking forward to the day-two of the draft to hand-pick the rest of its domestic players. A total of 42 players were up for grabs and will see 42 more tomorrow to choose from.
Atletico de Kolkata have already roped in its marquee player Luis Garcia, signed on Borja Fernandes, employed Antonio Lopez Habas as its head coach and appointed Jose Ramirez Barreto as the assistant coach of the team. The international players` draft scheduled next month will feature 49 players.
Atletico de Kolkata is the first franchise to be launched among the eight city franchisees of the Indian Super League.
Mr. Utsav Parekh, Co-owner, Atletico de Kolkata, Chairman, SMIFS Capital Markets Ltd said,
"Our team is in the safe-hands of our Head Coach and Assistant Coach. I am sure that these gentlemen ably supported by their experience and keen understanding of the sport and its specific requirements, will make the correct decision. At the end of day one of the draft, we are happy to have selected players aligned to our strategy of creating a great team."
The eight cities and/or states which were selected to host teams are Bangalore, Delhi, Goa, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Guwahati. The bids were to end on 25 March 2014.But will now end at 5pm IST on 27th March 2014. IMG have said that merely spending huge sum of money in bidding is not going to win a club for the bidder, rather the bidding party should have plans to operate international standard grassroots football program in their club based region. IMG have laid out strict guidelines for the bidding parties to follow in order to win a bid for a franchise team.
The reserve price for each city is Rs 12 crore per year for 10 years.
Rs 2 crore must be spent in the first year on developing football at the grassroots level.
On 13th April 2014, winners of bidding process were announced. Eight of the nine cities and their franchise owners were declared in the announcement. Chennai is the city which has been kept away from being included as a franchise in the Indian Super League. The winners and their franchise teams are mentioned below:
Bengaluru – Sun Group
Delhi – DEN Networks
Goa – Dattaraj Salgaocar and Shrinivas V. Dempo
Guwahati – John Abraham & Shillong Lajong F.C.
Kochi – Sachin Tendulkar & PVP Ventures
Kolkata – Sourav Ganguly, Harshavardhan Neotia, Atletico Madrid, Sanjeev Goenka, Utsav Parekh
Mumbai – Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal Parekh
Pune – Salman Khan and Wadhawan Group
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