Indian Senior Men\u2019s National Team Coach Igor Stimac has named central defender Anas Edathodika in his list of 35 probables for the preparatory camp for the Hero Intercontinental Cup. The Blue Tigers will be camping at the Mumbai Football Arena in Mumbai from June 25.<\/p>\n
Anas Edathodika, who had announced his retirement from International Football after the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 confirmed that he had \u201creceived a message from Coach Stimac,\u201d after which he \u201ccontemplated coming out of International retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCoach Stimac has shown his faith in me, and it’s my turn to repay him,\u201d Anas said. \u201cCoach messaged me to join the upcoming camp. Honestly, I was taken aback. Later Venky-bhai (Assistant Coach Venkatesh Shanmugam) shared all details, and I just can’t wait to join the camp,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
“The respect I earned while playing for the National Team is something which has pushed me to challenge myself again,\u201d Anas quipped.<\/p>\n
“At the moment, I\u2019m just focussing on the camp, and not thinking about making the cut to the team at all. Whatever comes my way, I’ll accept it,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI’m equally passionate and focused like I was a year back. I’m ready to push myself more.<\/p>\n
“Every coach has a different philosophy, and see the game differently. We had some great results before, and now all the boys whom I have spoken to, have lauded coach Stimac heavily.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other first-timers in the camp (under Coach Stimac) include defenders Sarthak Golui, and Narender Gehlot, and midfielders Mandar Rao Desai, Ashique Kuruniyan and Nikhil Poojary.<\/p>\n
The Hero Intercontinental Cup will be Stimac\u2019s second assignment since taking over as the Head Coach of the Blue Tigers. India, under Stimac\u2019s coaching, had finished third in the King\u2019s Cup, which included India\u2019s first-ever away win over Thailand, in Thailand.<\/p>\n
The Hero Intercontinental Cup will be held at the EKA Arena in Ahmedabad from July 7-19, 2019. Defending champions India begin their campaign on the opening day against a strong Tajikistan on July 7, with DPR Korea, and Syria being the other two teams in the four-nation competition. Every team will be playing each other once, with the top two advancing to the final.<\/p>\n
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The list of 35 probables stay as follows:<\/p>\n
GOALKEEPERS: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Amrinder Singh, Kamaljit Singh, Vishal Kaith.<\/p>\n
DEFENDERS: Pritam Kotal, Nishu Kumar, Rahul Bheke, Salam Ranjan Singh, Sandesh Jhingan, Adil Khan, Anas Edathodika, Anwar Ali (Jr), Sarthak Golui, Subhasish Bose, Narender Gahlot.<\/p>\n
MIDFIELDERS: Udanta Singh, Jackichand Singh, Brandon Fernandes, Anirudh Thapa, Raynier Fernandes, Pronay Halder, Rowllin Borges, Vinit Rai, Sahal Abdul, Amarjit Singh, Lallianzuala Chhangte, Mandar Rao Desai, Ashique Kuruniyan, Nikhil Poojary, Michael Soosairaj.<\/p>\n
FORWARDS: Balwant Singh, Sunil Chhetri, Jobby Justin, Farukh Choudhary, Manvir Singh.<\/p>\n
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Indian Senior Men\u2019s National Team Coach Igor Stimac has named central defender Anas Edathodika in his list of 35 probables for the preparatory camp for the Hero Intercontinental Cup. The Blue Tigers will be camping at the Mumbai Football Arena in Mumbai from June 25. Anas Edathodika, who had announced his retirement from International Football after the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 confirmed that he had \u201creceived a message from Coach Stimac,\u201d after which he \u201ccontemplated coming out of International retirement.\u201d \u201cCoach Stimac has shown his faith in me, and it’s my turn to repay him,\u201d Anas said. \u201cCoach messaged me to join the upcoming camp. Honestly, I was taken … Continue reading “ANAS MAKES A COMEBACK AS STIMAC NAMES LIST OF 35 PROBABLES FOR HERO INTERCONTINENTAL CUP”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[643,608],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-indian-national-football-team","tag-hero-intercontinental-cup-2019","tag-igor-stimac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}