Churchill Brothers name 34th Federation Cup squad!

Goan giants Churchill Brothers SC have named their final 20 players squad ahead of 34th Federation Cup in which the Goans have been drawn in Group B along with Air India, Mohun Bagan AC and qualifiers Mohammedan Sporting Club with the matches to be played in Siliguri.

The Red Machines under Subhas Bhowmick have been drawn in a tricky group and knowing that only topping the group would enable them to progress puts added pressure on a newly put together squad of experience and young talent.

Churchill Brothers SC open their campaign against Mohun Bagan AC (September 20), then face qualifiers Mohammedan Sporting Club (September 22) and play their final group game against Air India (September 24).


CHURCHILL BROTHERS SPORTS CLUB

Goalkeepers
Sandip Nandy, Felix D'Souza

Defenders
Denzil Franco, Yumnam Raju Mangang, Bilal Sheikh El Najjarin, Dharmaraj Ravanan, Gurtej Singh Sr, Sanjay Balmuehu

Midfielders
Steven Benedic Dias, Lenny Rodrigues, W. Tomba Singh, Roberto Mendes Silva, Israil Gurung, Amandeep Singh, Bikramjit Singh, Jaison Vales

Forwards
Henry Arnaud Antchouet Rebienot, Akram Moghrabi, T. Bineesh Balan, Thangjam Saran Singh

Officials
Subhas Bhowmick (Technical Director), Mariano Dias (Head Coach), Denzie Ferrao (Manager)

Churchill Brothers appoint Mariano Dias as head coach

Goan giants Churchill Brothers SC have appointed Mariano Dias as their new head coach for the 2012/13 season in place of Brazilian Carlos Roberto Pereira da Silva with Subhas Bhowmick continuing to be the clubs Technical Director.

Mariano last assignment was as assistant coach to former national coach Savio Medeira with Team India before that he was with Salgaocar SC and Mariano is best remembered of having won the 2010 Santosh Trophy as head coach for Goa.

Mariano will have the difficult task to rebuild the Churchill Brothers team with long-time players like Gouramangi Moirangthem Singh and Arindam Bhattacharya besides talented Lalrindika Ralte, Jagpreet Singh and Mundampara P. Sakeer all leaving the club.

The two foreigners in Brazilian Roberto Mendes Silva and Henry Antchouet from Gabon have been retained while Antun Mathew Kovacic and N.D. Opara were released. In their place experienced Libanese international defender Bilal Sheikh El Najjarin has been signed while the club is in talks with Ghanian striker Bismark Idan who last played in Turkey.

Further the club has signed talented youngsters in Pailan Arrows trio of Gurtej Singh Sr, Bikramjit Singh and Ajay Singh; Bilal Khan, Sanjay Balmachu and Manpreet Singh from the Tata Football Academy besides former Brasil Futebol Academia recruit Alesh Sawant from Calangute Association.