East Bengal name Allstars

Kolkata giants East Bengal Club yesterday announced their Allstar squad to face FC Bayern Munich Allstars on November 17 at the Saltlake Stadium to raise funds for the Towards Life Foundation, a foundation who looks after street children. Players who represented East Bengal in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s have been included in a real star studded line-up which is impressive for Indian football.

Former international defender Sudhir Karmakar has been given the task to lead the team as its captain with Goutam Sarkar as his vice-captain. The squad will be managed and coached by Surajit Sengupta and Manaranjan Bhattacharya.

The match is being organised by Towards Life Foundation, an NGO looking after street children in Kolkata, in partnership with East Bengal Club and FC Bayern Munich. And the Germans are set to come to Kolkata with a strong squad which includes six World Cup winners. The proceeds from the match will go to the TLF and the East Bengal players have all pledged to donate Rs 1,000 each with an amount of up to Rs 50,000 to be raised by the ex-players.

Here the blog entry for the FC Bayern Munich Allstar squad .


East Bengal Allstars

Goalkeepers
Debasish Mukherjee, Atanu Bhattacharyya, Arpan Dey, Tarun Bose, Bhaskar Ganguly

Defenders
Sudhir Karmakar (Captain), Tarun Dey, Swarup Das, Aloke Mukherjee, Shyamal Banerjee, Krishnendu Roy, Shyamal Ghosh, Balai Mukherjee

Midfielders
Tushar Rakshit, Chinmoy Chatterjee, Maidul Islam, Goutam Sarkar (vice-Captain), Debjit Ghosh, Kabir Bose, Bikash Panji, Mihir Bose, Amit Das, Ranjan Chowdhury, Abhijit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Ghosh, Jamshed Nassiri, Kartik Sett, Sanjoy Majhi, Monojit Das, Dulal Biswas, Basudeb Mondal

Forwards
Sishir Ghosh, Shyam Thapa, Swapan Sengupta, Subhash Bhowmick, Ranjit Mukherjee, Chandan Banerjee, Sukumar Samajpati

Managers
Surajit Sengupta, Manaranjan Bhattacharya