BDFA league resumes tomorrow

More than 3 months after the unforgettable incident, BDFA has come up with a new league schedule for Super and A Division. 

League is re-starting on this Friday, June 1, 2012 with the following A and Super Division match. Per the BDFA's original schedule, these matches were supposed to the be the first match for the respective divisions . However, postponed due to referees absence.

- 1.30 pm, A Div: RBI Vs LRDE
- 3.30 pm, Super Div: BEML Vs CIL



View the full schedule here: 
- A Division 
- Super Division

World 10K Bangalore 2012 Routes

• The World 10k Route – elite Men 7.10 am and elite women 7.55 am
  
    –  Assemble in Kanteerava Stadium and Start from inside Kanteerava Stadium
    –  Go out of the Stadium and T/R on Kasturba Road
    –  Go straight on Kasturba Road towards Queens Statue Jn.
    –  Move straight on M.G. Road towards Anil Kumble Jn.
    –  T/L from Anil Kumble Junction towards BRV Junction and Cubbon Road
    –  T/R on Cubbon Road and move straight towards Dickenson Road Junction
    –  T/L on Dickenson Road
    –  T/R on Ulsoor Road and Straight towards Begum Mahal Junction
    –  Take U-Turn from a pre-determined spot on Ulsoor Road and back towards Dickenson Road
    –  T/L on Dickenson Road towards Cubbon Road
    –  T/R on Cubbon Road
    –  T/L towards Anil Kumble Junction from BRV Junction
    –  T/R on M. G. Road
    –  T/R on the Queens Road towards Minsk Square Jn.
    –  T/L towards GPO from Minsk Square
    –  T/L on Dr. Ambedkar Road till Gopala Gowda Circle
    –  T/L Inside Cubbon Park towards KSLTA
    –  from round-about of KSLTA move towards State Central Library
    –  T/L towards Corporation circle crossing State Central Library and move towards Cubbon Park and Kasturba Road Junction
    –  T/L on Kasturba Road – Go straight towards the Main Gate of Kanteerava Stadium
    –  T/R inside the stadium – Go inside the Athletic Stadium and Finish
  
  
• Open 10k route –10k men and women and corporate challenge – 8 am
  
    –  Assemble in Kanteerava Stadium and Start from inside Kanteerava Stadium
    –  Go out of the Stadium and T/R on Kasturba Road
    –  Go straight on Kasturba Road towards Queens Statue Jn.
    –  Move straight on M.G. Road towards Anil Kumble Jn.
    –  T/L from Anil Kumble Junction towards BRV Junction and Cubbon Road
    –  T/R on Cubbon Road and move straight towards Dickenson Road Junction
    –  T/L on Dickenson Road
    –  T/R on Ulsoor Road & Straight towards Begum Mahal Junction
    –  Take U-Turn from a pre-determined spot on Ulsoor Road and back towards Dickenson Road
    –  T/L on Dickenson Road towards Cubbon Road
    –  T/R on Cubbon Road
    –  T/L towards Anil Kumble Junction from BRV Junction
    –  T/R on M. G. Road 
    –  T/R on the Queens Road towards Minsk Square Jn.
    –  T/L towards GPO from Minsk Square
    –  T/L on Dr. Ambedkar Road till Gopala Gowda Circle
    –  T/L Inside Cubbon Park towards KSLTA
    –  from round-about of KSLTA move towards State Central Library
    –  T/L towards Corporation circle crossing State Central Library and move towards Cubbon Park and Kasturba Road Junction
    –  T/L on Kasturba Road – Go straight towards the Main Gate of Kanteerava Stadium
    –  T/R inside the stadium and Finish outside the Athletic Stadium
  
• Majja run route – 9 am
  
  
     –  Assemble in Kanteerava Stadium and Start from inside Kanteerava Stadium
    –  Go out of the Stadium and T/R on Kasturba Road
    –  Go straight on Kasturba Road towards Queens Statue Jn.
    –  Move straight on M.G. Road towards Anil Kumble Jn.
    –  T/L from Anil Kumble Junction towards BRV Junction and Cubbon Road
    –  Take U-Turn from BRV Junction and move towards Anil Kumble Junction
    –  T/R on M. G. Road
    –  T/R on the Queens Road towards Minsk Square Jn.
    –  T/L towards GPO from Minsk Square
    –  T/L on Dr. Ambedkar Road till Gopala Gowda Circle
    –  T/L Inside Cubbon Park towards KSLTA  –  from round-about of KSLTA move towards State Central Library
    –  T/L towards Corporation circle crossing State Central Library and move towards Cubbon Park and Kasturba Road Junction
    –  T/L on Kasturba Road – Go straight towards the Main Gate of Kanteerava Stadium
    –  T/R inside the stadium and Finish
  
  
  
• Senior citizens run - 7.20 am and wheelchair event route 8.50 am
    –  Assemble in Kanteerava Stadium and Start from inside Kanteerava Stadium
    –  Go out of the Stadium and T/R on Kasturba Road
    –  Go straight on Kasturba Road towards Queens Statue Jn.
    –  T/L on Queens Road towards Minsk Square Jn.
    –  T/L towards GPO from Minsk Square
    –  T/L on Dr. Ambedkar Road till Gopala Gowda Circle
    –  T/L Inside Cubbon Park towards State Central Library
    –  Go straight crossing State Central Library towards Cubbon Park and Kasturba Road Junction
    –  T/L on Kasturba Road – Finish opposite Kanteerava Indoor Stadium
    –  Use the Slope to come inside the Kanteerava Stadium Complex and move towards respective holding areas.
  

TCS World 10K Bangalore: Few stats

Venue: Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bangalore

Date: Sunday, May 27, 2012

Race Timings

• World 10K elite men: 7.10 am
• Senior citizens: 7.20
• World 10K elite women: 7.55 am
• Open 10K: 8 am
• Wheelchair event: 8.50 am
• Majja run: 9 am

Total participants: 21,600

• World 10K participants: 136
  • Men: 89
  • Women: 47
• Open 10K participants: 9030
  • Men: 7627
  • Women: 1403
•  Majja run participants: 11018
  • Men: 7843
  • Women: 3175
• Senior citizen participants: 785
  • 451
  • 334
• Wheelchair event participants:91
  • Men: 65
  • Women: 26

Total prize money: $170,000

Race day 

• Medical Stations: 5 Medical Stations - two base camps in Shree Kanteerava Stadium and three Medical Stations on route Cubbon and Kamraj Road Junction, GPO, and
  Central Library
• Ambulances: 6
• Doctors on Duty: 150 
• Traffic and Law and Order Policemen on Duty: 15OO
• Security Guards: 500
• Volunteers: 1000
• Helicopters: 1
• Live Telecast: Between 7 am to 10.30 am, Star Plus and DD Sports
• Gatorade Sports Drink stations: (on the route) ,- at the 4 km point and 5 km point

Charity Initiatives

•  Care Champions: 29 
• Corporate Cares: 21 Corporates fielding 23 teams
• Corporate Challenge: 44 Corporates fielding 130 teams
• Total NGOs: 81
  

HAL’s approach towards the beautiful game is appalling: Baichung

HAL’s approach towards the beautiful is appalling, can’t do anything for football, and Bangalore should have a new club!

Football icon Baichung Bhutia just reiterated what every football lovers from the Garden City have been saying all these days. Baichung was addressing at the TCS World 10K Bangalore function on last Sunday, May 20, 2012. He was unleashing Nikes Finisher Tee - the T-shirt, made from recycled polyester, which will be awarded to the first 1500 finishers at the World 10K run.

On I-League

More teams are very important but if you have two more teams from Goa
and Kolkata it doesn’t make any sense. We need to have teams from different parts of the country, coz at the end of the day you need to spread the game all over. United Sikkim Football Club’s (USFC) entry into the I-League shows that football has indeed spread to the smaller cities. Currently, the main problem is that most of the teams in I-League are largely from Goa or Kolkata - that desperately needs to change, it is not good for the game.
I will still continue to play for my club, but not too much. I did play in the second division but not for the entire 90 minutes.

On HAL

We need a good professional club from Bangalore. HAL has done well but we need a private limited club like USFC. HAL, being a public sector company can’t do certain things. Football has a huge following in Bangalore. There are also so many big corporates here. I think the AIFF should help out in finding investors. You need a nice club in Bangalore which is going to reach out to football lovers, the masses. We need the I-League in Bangalore, need a new professional club with new investors!

India’s World Cup U-17 bid

I think we can certainly host the Junior World Cup. I personally feel it could be step forward in the right direction. But, also, at the same time we need to develop the game. There is no point in hosting an event of such magnitude if we can’t benefit from it on the long run. We need to make sure we have the right infrastructure in place and not to embarrass ourselves. 

Foreign clubs

Foreign clubs coming to India and hosting camps is a good sign. But, the sad part is most of them are held for a very short duration - one or two weeks at the most. The kids definitely do benefit from the exposure to world class coaching, but it needs to be done on a long-term basis. I would suggest the clubs to open a school and train the kids right throughout the year instead of sending the kids on an exposure trip to Manchester United, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Arsenal, etc. It would help develop talent. 

AIFF plans

For AIFF the first thing is they need to find the right coach. Once they do that they need to give him a longer run. There’s no point in rushing and signing a coach for the sake of it. Bob had a longer period – the results were there. We need that kind of big brand name like Bob and give him a longer time. The results will then come.

inputs: Maxin Mathews

Two ex- city footballers pass away

Former Santosh Trophy footballer
JK Loganathan

JK Loganthan, former state footballer and Narendran, right forward and former super division footballer passed away passed away on May 18 and 15 respectively. 

Loganthan, 88, participated in the Santhosh Trophy from 1947 thru 50. During the 1948 National Olympic camp at Chennai, he participated along with Olympians T Sanmugham, Ahmed Khan and late Bhaseer of. However, Loganthan could not make it to the final Olympic team. 

Loganthan played for HAL for 15 years, also, captained HAL in 1952 Durand Cup at Delhi.  He was the promoter of Veterans Coaching Centre, Austin Town, Nandan Ground. He left 5 sons and 3 daughters.

Narendran, 41, was suffering from brain tumor, and was severely ill for last 4 months. He was the president of Oriental Football Club, Jeevanahalli, Cox Town and played BDFA league from 1986 to 2011. In last season, he turned out for his own, Club Oriental Football Club, a Super Division team now relegated to B Division.

Narendran played for GTRE, a DRDO Team, Central Excise, and Government Press. He used to run his club with great passion and nurtured several boys from his locality to represent state. He left his wife and boy. 

Ambulance finally comes to the football stadium

The Karnataka State Football Association (KSFA) took the delivery of the Ambulance on Tuesday, May 15. 

Kushal Das, General Secretary, All India Football Federation (AIFF), who was in Bangalore to oversee the arrangements for the India U-22 coaching camp (to be held in Bangalore) was present at the time of delivery of the ambulance. Also, present on the occasion was KSFA President, AR Khaleel, and the KSFA and BDFA office bearers. Kushal Das cut the ribbon and took a trial run of the ambulance.

Also read the article on sad demise of Venkatesh D.

Chandrashekar appointed new manager of HAL football team

The Hindustan Aeronautics Sports Club (HASC) Managing Committee has decided to revamp the HAL football team by appointing H Chandrashekar as the Technical Manager of their team. 

Definitely a late wake-up call for the aircraftmen after playing their worst ever football season! 

Chandrasekhar, 55, former HAL footballer is popularly known as Chandru, he has coached HAL in the inaugural season of I-League (formerly NFL). 

Chandru will be responsible for selecting the coach, players, and co-coordinators for the HAL football team. He has been requested to take charge as the Technical Manager with immediate effect for overall development of the football team.

Karnataka Santosh Trophy players travel without train reservation

It is learnt from a reliable source that the Karnataka State Football Association officials failed to reserve adequate train berths for the Karnataka players traveling to Bhubaneshwar. 

The state team boarded Yeshwantpur-Howrah Express on Monday, May 7, evening and travelled 23 hours without proper seat. Also, learned that several players spent most of their journey time near the passageway close to the loo.  

The state team has reached Bhubaneshwar today night and will be playing their Santosh Trophy match on Friday, May 11, against Nagaland.

State football association’s callousness once again! They took almost a month in planning and preparing the team, but could not secure train tickets in advance. We are neither talking about air travel nor air-conditioned train journey, just a basic train reservation, yet the officials failed to do that. 

Remember our players will be representing the Karnataka state and still we are expecting them to perform well after such a shabby treatment!

Karnataka team for Santosh Trophy 2012

B V Pradeep of Karnataka State Police (KSP) team will lead state team in the 66^th Santosh Trophy, an annual football tournament which is contested by the Indian states and few government institutions.

This year’s edition will be held in Orissa. Karnataka is placed in Cluster V along with Nagaland, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. 

Karnataka will open their campaign on May 11 against Nagaland. The top team qualifies for the Quarter Final Group B, which will be played in a round-robin format along with last year’s Semi Finalist Manipur and Goa and the winner from Cluster III.

Team: Nissar (BEML), Nagendra (KSP); Ricky Joy (Postal), B V Pradeep (KSP), Chetan Kumar (Postal), Tiken Singh (8EML), Rakesh (Govt. Press), Edwin (DYSS), Ginsh (MEG), N Naveen Babu (ADE), Pandian (Postal), Rajesh sr. (BEML), Amoes (BEML), Vineet (MEG), Prakash (HAL), Deepan Thapa (MEG), Rajesh jr. (BEML), Lokeshwar Singh (MEG), Sarath Iyengar (Postal), Ngurneilal Hmar (MEG), Gopi (Postal), Stephen (BEML)

Coach: Andrew

Manager: Krishnaji Rao

Pre Quarter Final Round Cluster 5 (Bhubaneswar, Orissa)

• Friday, May 11, 2012: Karnataka 5 (Ngurneilal Hmar-30', Gopi-56', 85', Arun Pondy-57', Prakash-81') Vs Nagaland 0    
• Friday, May 11, 2012: Bihar 0 Vs Uttar Pradesh 1     
• Sunday, May 13, 2012: Uttar Pradesh 2 (Adil Hassan Khan-8', Budhram Yadav-62') Vs Karnataka 1 (Gopi-1')
• Sunday, May 13, 2012: Nagaland 1 Vs Bihar 1
• Tuesday, May 15, 2012: Nagaland 2 Vs Uttar Pradesh 3
• Tuesday, May 15, 2012: Karnataka 5 (B Prakash[p]-39', Lokeshwar Singh-48', Deepan Thapa-49', Amoes-69', Rajesh jr.-77') Vs Bihar 0

>> UP thru to the quarter final stage

Quarter Final Round Group B (Bhubaneswar, Orissa)

• Friday, 18 May, 2012: Manipur Vs Winner Cluster III
• Friday, 18 May, 2012: Goa Vs Winner Cluster V  
• Sunday, May 20, 2012: Winner Cluster III Vs Goa              
• Sunday, May 20, 2012: Winner Cluster V Vs Manipur      
• Tuesday, May 22, 2012: Winner Cluster III Vs Winner Cluster V  
• Tuesday, May 22, 2012: Manipur Vs Goa