Seven footballers from Dehradun will represent the Kolkata based Bhawanipur football club (FC) under-18 side this season. The local footballers were selected after two-day trials in the provisional State capital Dehradun which concluded on Friday.
The Bhawanipur FC is an established club of Kolkata. Established in 1910, Bhawanipur FC came to Uttarakhand for selecting talent for its under 18 team, which will play in the I-league (U-18) this time.
The club’s grassroots head coach Aditya Chaterjee and assistant coach Surujeet Chokarboti conducted two day selection trails at the local Pavilion ground.
After the trails, Aishwary Pundir, Ajeet Yadav, Sonu lal, Akshaya Thapa, Ajendra Singh, Saurav Sharma and Vishal Butola were selected to represent the under-18 team of the Bhawanipur FC in the forthcoming I-league. The seven players were finalised from 160 odd players who attended the trails in Dehradun on August 9 and 10.
According to coach Aditya Chaterjee, the players will join on September 1 and the club will provide accommodation, mess facility and stipend to the selected players. The I-league (Under-18) is likely to start from September end or early October and Bhawanipur FC is keen on giving an impressive performance this season. For this the talent spotters of the club are visiting different parts of the country.