2023-09-16 10:32:07
16 September 2023, 04:02 PM IST Photo: PTI
After the worries and dramatic moments, relief for the Indian team. The experienced Sandesh Jhingan will be there to guard India’s defense in the Asian Games football. Jhingan joins the team just three days before the kickoff of India’s first match at the Asian Games. FC who defended until the eleventh hour. Goa finally agreed to release Jingan to the national team. For this, FC Goa’s first ISL match once morest Hyderabad, which was scheduled to take place on September 22, has been postponed. The organizers said that the revised date will be announced later.
Until the other day, FC was not ready to release Jingan because of the start of ISL. Goa said. Accordingly, the All India Football Federation released a team excluding Jingan. However, Jingan’s name was in the list released by the Union Sports Ministry the other day. However, FC Goa explained that they did not receive any official notification regarding this.
Jingan is one of the three senior players in the team. The other two are Bengaluru FC’s Sunil Chhetri and Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. However, Bengaluru FC decided to release Sandhu. Wasn’t ready. Thus, Mohun Bagan’s Liston Collazo was included as a senior player. Hyderabad’s defender Chinglensana Singh and East Bengal’s defender Lalchungnunga were included in the team. East Bengal’s winger Mahesh Singh will also be in the team if there is no problem in the medical examination.
There was no change in Chhetri’s case. In the meantime FC Goa’s decision is unexpectedly made. I. in leaving Jingan. S. All India Football Federation President Kalyan Chaubey thanked FSDL, the organizers of the event. National coach Igor Stimach also said that he was happy with this decision.
As the tenth season of the ISL begins, the clubs will not let go of the players, and the first team announced by the federation was to exclude Jingan and Sandhu and make thirteen changes. Sunil Chhetri was the only senior player retained from the old team. However, in the new list released by the government, there were only six changes in the old team. They kept Jingan.
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