Salgaocar SC announce squad for 2012/13 season

Goan giants Salgaocar SC have finalised their squad for the 2012/13 season. There is some fluctuation in the squad as some of the teams star players were released due to too high financial demands, while new talented youngsters have replaced them.

Coach Karim Bencharifa speaking about his new squad said, "One must know that it's not an easy task to assemble a good squad for two main reasons. Firstly one must keep within the Club’s budget; secondly the pool of quality players is very limited which mean that there are limited options in the market. So our strategy was to look for players who will fit well into our system and our budget, the main criteria for selection was talent and hunger. Two categories of players fit into this plan; experienced players who do not have many options but want to prove themselves or young players who are looking for a chance to shine."

Amongst those release were three of the four foreigners in Ryuji Sueoka, Chidi Edeh and Maxime Belouet with only Brazilian centre-back Luciano Sabrosa retained. The club has brought in Namibian playmaker Quinton Norman Jacobs from United Sikkim FC and African striker Abdullah Hamza Amaba from HAL.

"Maybe we can't afford to sign stars but we are definitely a club which makes stars. We did it with the likes of Khelemba, Tomba, Jaspal, Sueoka who came to Salgaocar as low profile signings and now they are star signings for other clubs," Karim added.


SALGAOCAR SC - 2012/13 Squad

Goalkeepers
Karanjit Singh, Vinay Singh, Pawan Kumar (Air India)

Defenders
Royston D'Souza (Air India), Collin Abranches (Air India), Nicolau Colaco, Luciano Sabrosa, Augostinho Fernandes, Karan Atwal (United Sikkim FC), Biswajit Saha, Rahul Kumar

Midfielders
Keegan Pereira (Mumbai FC), Bijay Baspore (Air India), Karan Sawhney (Tata Football Academy), Rocus Lamare, Quinton Norman Jacobs (United Sikkim FC), Randeep Singh, Cajetan Fernandes, Anthony Barbosa, Beevan D'Mello, Gilbert Oliveira, Francis Fernandes, , Chhangte Malswamkima (Mumbai FC), Kshetrimayum Malamnganba Meitei (HAL SC), Angelo D'Souza (Sporting Clube de Goa), Brian Mascarenhas (Dempo SC), Presley Mascarenhas, Aliston Fernandes, Roy Rodrigues, Godfrey Silva

Forwards
Abdullah Hamza Amaba (HAL SC), Sandesh Gadkare (Air India), Balwant Singh, Mohammad Dada Nabeel, Milagres Gonsalves, Marcus Mascarenhas, Thounaojam Dinesh Singh, Clifton Dias, Rosario Mendes

Youth Players intergrated into Senior team

Albino Gomes, Allwyn Fernandes, Aslon Oliveira, Jos Joquim Vaz, Melwin Fernandes (all Salgaocar Under-20), N. Tomarjit Singh (NEROCA, Manipur), P. Kishan Singh (SAIL Football Academy)


Players Released
Jaspal Singh Parmar, Ishfaq Ahmed, Chidi Edeh (all East Bengal Club), Irungbam Khelemba Singh, Mehrajuddin Wadoo (both Mohun Bagan AC), Ryuji Sueoka (Dempo SC), W. Tomba Singh (Churchill Brothers SC), Macklas Moraes, Rino Anto, Keenan Almeida, Bobbychan Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Vivek Singh Kaira, Karthik Kisku, Maxime Belouet