Share Football Club
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<div>SHARE FOOTBALL CLUB</div><div><br></div>A football club in Kalimpong, a himalayan hilly city of North Bengal.<div><br></div><div>Facebook Page - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharefootballclub"; style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://www.facebook.com/sharefootballclub</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/283919_255297464494910_255297077828282_924280_1409106_n.jpg"></div>;
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</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: large; "><a href="http://www.kolkatafootballs.com/indiafootball_news_2012/may10thpart_2012.html#kalimpong_share">http://www.kolkatafootballs.com/indiafootball_news_2012/may10thpart_2012.html#kalimpong_share</a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">Many of you might have already heard and read about Share Football Club,Kalimpong as on the 7th of May many respected dailies had carried its story about the grand players presentation program held a day ahead and the release of the club's official Magazine along with a Music CD. Probably this was for the first time in our region that a football club had organized a function of such a magnitude.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">I can bet you would have felt proud to be football fan if you had attended the function that day. Share Football Club has set out to achieve the impossible. Their unified dream is to reach the zenith of Indian Football one day. The I-League! No doubt it looks like a daunting prospect but don't you think football is an art of the possible. If Shillong Lajong and United Sikkim FC could do it why can't the new dreamers, Share Football Club follow their footsteps.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">The attempt of this story is to shed some more light into Share Football Club and give you more inputs about this young but ambitious club from Kalimpong.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">A beautiful hill station, Kalimpong is located in the Darjeeling Hills. This small town was once a centre of trade. As It was through this little town the trade between Tibet and India used to take place. Close proximity to an important mountain pass (Jelep la) assisted Kalimpong to develop as a trading junction.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">The beautiful game as Pele said- Football has also been synonymous with this town and over the years Kalimpong has produced many talented players like Jerry Basi, Pem Dorjee, Kharay Basnett and Urgen Lama (Mini) to name a few. It might not be an over statement to say that the football history of Kalimpong is glorious.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">The school football culture of this town is also worth mentioning, where passion runs high and Scottish Universities' Mission Institution always wins the major trophies this missionary school based in Kalimpong has also represented Bengal in considerable editions of the prestigious, Subroto Mukherjee Football Tournament.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">But all of a sudden, due to certain circumstances and may be because of technological advancements and changing life style the beautiful game suffered a lot in Kalimpong or for that matter in the entire hills of Darjeeling. The supply chain of quality players also dried up and this trend has continued.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">Pranab Pariyar, President of Share Football Club said 'I grew up watching some quality players who were born and breed in Kalimpong but for some reasons the supply chain of players seems to have dried up and we at Share Football Club feel that its our responsibility to revive the glory days of football in this town'.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">As as Pranab Pariyar said Share Football Club, Kalimpong wants to revive that glorious past of football in this town and help young players to live their dream of being pro footballers one day. Its a daunting task and their might be many obstacles along the way but the club officials are confident of achieving what they have set as a target.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">With a professional attitude the club has went forward and signed 26 young footballers on the 28th of March this year. The legal contract mentions that the players will have to be at the club for the next three years. This kind of initiative has been taken for the very first time in the Darjeeling hills now United Kurseong Football Club plans to do the same.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">This system will also discourage the Khep tradition where the footballers are hired from different clubs for a tournament or a one off match and the parent club can't do much about this as they don't have any legal papers to prove that the players are contracted with them. This system is also responsible for the diminishing club loyalties amongst the footballers and if clubs like Share Fooball Club and United Kurseong Football Club set an example it will surely help in making football more organized in the administrative stream.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">Share Football Club is run by a group of football loving youths who are from different walks of lives but their love for the beautiful game unites them. Dipen Rai a teacher by profession is the club's General Secretary and says "We have a dream and no matter what kind of hurdles we have on the way we will never back down from our twin goals of reviving the glorious past of football in our region and also reaching the I-League in the near future".</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">Share Football Club has was launched just last year and in a very short span of time the club has made a marked progress. Till date they have participated in two major tournaments of this region namely the Sukna Gold Cup in January where the team reached the Quarter Finals and in the Central Bank silver Jubilee tournament, Share Football Club ended up as runners up. Off the field the club has started an official magazine called Lateybhakundo (means football in nepali) along with a music CD which features the club song Vijay.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">Share Football Club has also roped in Red FM as their Radio partner and in the coming days all the featured songs in the album will be aired on Red FM along with other updates about the Club. Continuing with the proffesional attitude at the club a singtam based software developing company, Izytech has already signed a contract with the club to design the website.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">The team is coached by a former British Army soldier Chandra Kumar Rai who hold a coaching certificate from the prestigious Football Association of England. The coach said on the sidelines of the players presentation program " I had almost given up coaching and around that time Share Football Club officials contacted me and I was very much impressed by their vision and I accepted their offer of being the coach".</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">It might be mentioned here Chandra Kumar Rai had and is still receiving plenty of offers from various Clubs and Academies around the country but he has not accepted those offers as he wants to serve his home town and believes in the ability of players from Kalimpong to do well at the highest level of Indian football.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">The club as already mentioned has plans and a dream to reach the zenith of Indian Football. The I-league, in the next five to six years and are optimistic of achieving that target as the support Share Football Club is getting from the football loving people of this region has been overwhelming thus far and on the basis of this support the club plans to keep on moving forward.</p><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(227, 226, 222); ">Share Football Club is definitely a start of a legacy and if everything goes according to plan they are sure to revive the past glory of football in the hills and also produce some talented young footballers for the country.</p>