India Probables for Caribbean Tour

Last night the national team players returned to New Delhi after a short break at home ahead of the trip to the Caribbean to play Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad&Tobago. 26 players were supposed to report to the probables camp with 23 players set to fly across to the Caribbean next week for the three match series to take place later this month.

But especially Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan are against releasing the players while their pre-season is on. AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das has met the club officials to explain to them that such a tour was of general interest to Indian football with such expose for Team India rare.

East Bengal have agreed for Raju Gaikwad, Robert Lalthlamuana ad Baljit Singh Saini to be part of the squad while they want Mehtab Hussain and Harmanjot Singh Khabra to stay back. Mohun Bagan have left it to their new coach Steve Darby to decide.

From the 30 player squad for the home-and-away tie against the United Arab Emirates in the 2014 FIFA World Cup - Asian Round 2 qualifiers the following four players have been left out - Sandip Nandy (East Bengal Club), Denzil Franco (Churchill Brothers SC), Rakesh Masih (Mohun Bagan AC) and Shilton D'Silva (Indian Arrows). But if other players aren't released then other players might be called to the camp.


INDIA Probables
Goalkeepers
Subrata Pal (Pune FC), Karanjit Singh (Salgaocar SC), Laxmikant Kattimani (Dempo SC)

Defenders
Sameer Naik (Dempo SC), Valeriano Rebello (Dempo SC), Gouramangi Singh (Churchill Brothers SC), Raju Eknath Gaikwad (East Bengal Club), Mahesh Gawli (Dempo SC), Rowilson Rodrigues (Dempo SC), Debabrata Roy (Dempo SC), Robert Lalthlamuana (East Bengal Club)

Midfielders
Steven Benedic Dias (Churchill Brothers SC), Lalrindika Ralte (Churchill Brothers SC), Peter Carvalho (Dempo SC), Mehtab Hossain (East Bengal Club), Lalkamal Bhowmick (United SC), Harmanjot Khabra (East Bengal Club), Jewel Raja Sheikh (Mohun Bagan AC), Climax Lawrence (Dempo SC), Syed Rahim Nabi (Mohun Bagan AC), Clifford Miranda (Dempo SC)

Forwards
Sunil Chhetri (Mohun Bagan AC), Jeje Lalpekhlua (Pune FC), Sushil Kumar Singh (United Sikkim FC), Baljit Singh Sahni (East Bengal Club), C.S. Sabeeth (Indian Arrows)

Officials
Armando Colaco (Chief Coach), Savio Medeira (Assistant Coach), Marcus Pacheco (Goalkeeping Coach), Mandar Tamhane (Manager)