I personally want to fast forward 4-5 years of my life and see how team India stands in 2018 with the youngsters of today would have been developed.<br><br>What i am visualizing is a strong Indian Team with atleast 5-6 players playing abroad.what say guys?<br><br><br>Gurpreet,Myron,Souvik,Arnab,Nabi(maybe)<br>Dika,Vineeth,Alwyn,Lalkamal/Mehtab,<br>Brandon,<br>Jeje/Uttam<br><br>Looks like a good team.<br>
<h3 style="outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(55, 53, 53); text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">HINDUSTAN GROUP DROPS OUT</h3><p class="body" style="outline: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meanwhile, the Hindustan Group of institutions which was keen on bringing an I-League club to Chennai, has backed out.</p><p class="body" style="outline: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The AIFF has said that we should give a bank guarantee of Rs. 100 crores, etc which it did not tell us earlier (in the open house meeting),” said Abraham Varghese, the coach of Hindustan Eagles FC. “Also, the association was not replying to the mails I had sent. I got all the details of what the AIFF wanted from outside India. So, we have dropped our I-League plans and we are planning to enter the Second Division and qualify through that.”</p><p class="body" style="outline: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/aiff-extends-deadline-to-bid-for-ileague-clubs/article4733623.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/aiff-extends-deadline-to-bid-for-ileague-clubs/article4733623.ece</a></p>;
<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bhutia, Chhetri may feature in AIFF's IPL style league</h1><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"> </span></h1><div class="art-body" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><img src="http://sports.ndtv.com/images/stories/bhaichung_bhutia_thank300.jpg"; border="0" align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 2px; margin: 10px;">Former India captain Bhaichung Bhutia, striker Sunil Chettri and star defender Syed Rahim Nabi are set to play in AIFF's proposed franchise-based tournament in January next year.<br><br>AIFF will conduct the tournament in collaboration with IMG-Reliance, who will be the marketing partner for the IPL styled league.<br><br>AIFF sources said close to 10 prominent players have been approached to feature in the league including goalkeeper Subrata Paul.<br><br>"Yes we are in talks with these players. Hopefully we will get to see them playing in the league," an AIFF source said.</p><div><br></div></div>
<span class="arttle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; display: block; line-height: 30px; position: relative;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; font-weight: normal;"><font size="6">Bhutia, Chhetri to play in AIFF's new league tournament</font></h1></span><span name="advenueINTEXT" id="advenueINTEXT" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; float: left;"><div class="storydiv cm_filter stry_div" id="storydiv" style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; float: left; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: arial; width: 650px;"><div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; height: 877px;"><div class="Normal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: georgia;"><tmp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></tmp></div><div class="Normal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: georgia;"><tmp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some of the star Indian footballers, including former skipper Baichung Bhutia, are likely to feature in All India Football Federation's (AIFF) franchise-based tournament planned by its marketing partner IMG-Reliance in the 2013-14 season.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IMG-Reliance have already approached nine players, including Bhutia, and they have shown their interest in playing in the eight-team tournament which will be held from January 14-March 13 next year.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"IMG-Reliance have approached nine star players and they have agreed to play in the tournament. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Baichung-Bhutia-(footballer)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 77, 153); text-decoration: none;">Baichung Bhutia</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sunil-Chhetri"; style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 77, 153); text-decoration: none;">Sunil Chhetri</a>are some of the prominent names, who have shown their interest to play," an <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AIFF"; style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 77, 153); text-decoration: none;">AIFF</a> official said.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Indian defender Syed Rahim Nabi and star goalkeeper Subrata Paul have also been approached.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But AIFF is yet to decide on the players' transfer and club registration rules and may have to ring in some changes in its constitution for the tournament.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"We have asked IMG-Reliance to come up with a detailed plan for the tournament. We may have to bring some changes in our constitution to make way for the tournament. It will be an eight-team tournament and we are trying to give it a pan-India touch," the official said.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The AIFF wants all the eight clubs to be centrally registered but according to current rules clubs can only be registered with state associations.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IMG-Reliance will also have to take players on loan from the I-League clubs for two months and players' transfer rules also would have to be amended. As per the AIFF rules, a player can sign for only one club in a season.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The new league organisers have a plan to sign all the players by June. They may again loan out the players to I-League clubs and call them back during their league. But it may again put the AIFF and the I-League clubs on collision course.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"All amendments will be made in accordance with <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/FIFA"; style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 77, 153); text-decoration: none;">FIFA</a> rules," the official said.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But what may benefit IMG-Reliance is that I-League clubs are struggling to play their players in the current financial scenario.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"The clubs are struggling to play their players and it may just work for the new tournament," the official added.</tmp></div><span id="storyendpath" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div class="flR" style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: right;"></div></div></div></span>
Guys,any news on the teams against whom we are planning to arrange the friendlies in June?<br>
<div><br></div><div>Rumour: <br><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">KUWAIT OR CHINA PR ON 4TH JUNE AND AN AFRICAN COUNTRY ON 11TH JUNE</span></div></div>
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