Source: Hueiyen News Service
New Delhi, June 12 2009:
The Indian national team will prepare for the upcoming Nehru Cup with camps in Dubai & Barcelona.
The Indian national team will be training in the United Arab Emirates and in Spain ahead of the Nehru Cup to be played at the Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi from August 18 to 30 .
As the turf of the Ambedkar Stadium is being made ready for the Nehru Cup the federation decided to hold the camp elsewhere.
Dubai was chosen to utilise the excellent facilities there.
The camp would be held frm June 25 to July 7 .
Thereafter Team India would leave for Spain to train in Barcelona from July 7 to August 7.While in the Catalan capital the team would utilize the facilities of UEFA Champions League 2008/09 winners FC Barcelona and play five friendly matches during the training cum exposure trip.
It may be noted that four Manipuri footballers are also in the Indian football team.
The Manipuri footballers in the national team are defender Surkumar, midfielders Gouramangi, Th Bungo and P Rennedy.
Other players are goalkeepers Sandip Nandy, Subrato Pal, Subhasis Roy Choudhary, defenders NS Manju, Habibur Rehman Mondal, Debbarta Roy, Mahesh Gawli, Samir Naik and Syed Rahim Nabi, midfielders Steven Dias, Ajayan K Nair, NR Pradeep, Climax Lawrence, Clifford Miranda and Mehrajuddin Wadoo, strikers Abhisek Yadav, Baichung Bhutia (captain), Sunil Chetri, Tarif Ahmed, Manjit Singh and Anthony Pereira.