In 2012 we at Anglian Football went along with the financial minnows Shillong Lajong Football Club (SLFC) , who is now the lowest budget club in the I-League with a good middle-ranking . Lajong is run by Larsing Ming Sawyan , a young entrepreneur in his 30s. This is about the young from the North East believing in themselves and aspiring for the stars ! And in two years , they again hit the big time with the newest power football League being created in the World. John Abraham and Lajong , get the Guwahati franchise of the newly constituted India Super League . This time around the heavy-weights are even bigger than the IPL . But for me the best news is that the North-East was recognised . Chennai was dropped in the first round , as only 8 out of 9 centres were selected . This will bring the North-East talent and states into public media view like never before . Videocon chief Venugopal Dhoot has formed a consortium with businessman Dattaraj Salgaocar and Dempo owner Shrinivas Dempo to bag the rights for Goa. While Delhi will be solely owned by Sameer Manchanda-headed Den Cable Network, Bangalore was bagged by Sun Group, which also owns IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad. Ganguly too has formed a consortium with West Bengals leading industrialists Harsh Neotia of Ambuja Neotia Group, Sanjeev Goenka of RPG Group, stock broker Utsav Parekh and top Spanish club Atletico Madrid to clinch the franchise rights for Kolkata. Tendulkar and PVP Ventures, which owns Indian Badminton League (IBL) inaugural champions Hyderabad Hotshots, have together clinched Kochi while actor-producer John Abraham has tied up with I-League outfit Shillong Lajong for Guwahati. Ranbir and Mumbais leading investment banker Bimal Parekh, who manages celebrities like Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif, have got the Mumbai franchise while Salman Khan bagged Pune along with Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan of the Wadhawan Group.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:57:35 +0000
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