Indian Soccer League (ISL)

lundi 13 octobre 2014

So, this kicked off yesterday. And, fresh from worrying us all by turning up in Beckenham on transfer deadline day, Andre Moritz is playing in red and blue (well, a red stripe on a blue shirt). Is anyone else keeping an eye on it?



There's a To view the link you have to Register or Login of all the players, but here are some of the more notable ones:



Atletico de Kolkata

(The city hosts India's biggest game, the derby between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, attended by India's largest crowd ever for a sporting fixture in 1997 - 131,000. Owned by Sourav Ganguly.)

Climax Lawrence (35, India)

Borja Fernandez (33, Spain) - formerly of Real Madrid (23 apps), Mallorca, Valladolid, Getafe and Deportivo. Scored a great goal yesterday.

Luis Garcia (36, Spain)

Ofentse Nato (33, Botswana)

Mohammed Rafi (32, India) - I hear he has a fantastic voice.

Josemi (34, Spain)



Chennaiyin

Bojan Djordjic (32, Sweden)

Marco Materazzi (41, Italy)

Bernard Mendy (33, France)

Shilton Paul (26, India) - he's a goalkeeper.

Elano (33, Brazil) - yes, that Elano.

Mikael Silvestre (37, France)

Gennaro Bracigliano (34, France) - former Marseille #2. His To view the link you have to Register or Login was taken before he'd had time to finish brushing his teeth.



Delhi Dynamos

Alessandro Del Piero (39, Italy)

Mads Junker (33, Denmark) - 7 caps, 1 goal.

Marek Cech (38, Czech) - goalkeeper.

Morton Skoubo (33, Denmark) - another Danish striker, not very good whilst on loan at West Brom ages ago.



Goa

(Managed by Zico and owned by Virat Kohli.)

Robert Pires (40, France)

Andre Santos (31, Brazil) - only joined Arsenal in 2011.



FC Pune City

David Trezeguet (37, France) - spent a bit of time at River Plate after finishing his European career, so may be one of the more useful of the European vets.

Konstantinos Katsouranis (35, Greece)

Adrian Mutu (35, Romania)



Kerala Blasters

(Owned by Sachin Tendulkar.)

David James (44, England) - player/manager.

James McAllister (36, Scotland) - formerly of Bristol City, PNE and Yeovil.

Colin Falvey (29, Ireland) - has played in England, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA.

Penn Orji (23, Nigeria)

Michael Chopra (30, England)

Iain Hume (30, Canada)



Mumbai City

(Managed by Peter Reid.)

Nicolas Anelka (35, France)

Manuel Friedrich (35, Germany)

Andre Moritz (28, Brazil)

Fredrik Ljungberg (37, Sweden)



NorthEast United

(Based in Guwahati, Assam, with a squad based upon that of Shillong Lajong in the I-League.)

Seiminlen Doungel (20, India) - almost has a great name.

Joan Capdevila (36, Spain)

Cornell Glen (34, Trinidad & Tobago) - "He began at Trinidadian club FUGTOF in 1999" - before he fugtof to play in all three 2006 World Cup group stage games, and was one of their better players, too. Was playing for LA Galaxy fairly recently.

James Keene (28, England) - former Portsmouth striker, now Elfsborg's all-time European top scorer. According to the ISL site, "Keene had expressed his interest in playing for the Swedish national team, could make the cut for the Scandinavian side."

Koke (31, Spain) - no, not that one. Formerly of Marseille, Rayo Vallecano, and other clubs in Spain, Portugal, Greece, USA, Azerbaijan, Germany and Bolivia.

Alexandros Tzorvas (32, Greece) - Greek international for quite a while, not in the last few squads though.



Atletico de Kolkata beat Mumbai City 3-0 yesterday:












Today is the second game, NorthEast United vs Kerala Blasters. Kicks off at 2.30pm UK time. Delhi play Pune City tomorrow at the same time. If my afternoon tomorrow moves as slowly as this one, I may end up watching it.




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