ISL PREVIEW PART 2
THESE ARE THE OTHER FOUR TEAMS IN THE ISL
CHENNAIYIN FOOTBALL CLUB
CHENNAIYIN FOOTBALL CLUB
Chennaiyin Football
Club is latest club in the competition. The franchise
is owned by cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan.It is Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Chennaiyin FC will play their home matches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium which
has a seating capacity of about 40,000. The club picked the ex-PSG star Bernard
Mendy, Cristian
Hidalgo, Gennaro Bracigliano, Bojan
Djordjic, Eduardo Silva Lerma, Bruno Pelissari and Jairo
Suárez as their 7 international players, for INR 2.34 Crore for all 7
players at an average value of INR 33.43 Lakhs per player.
DELHI
DYNAMOS FC
The
Delhi ISL team has the largest star to feature in the tournament, Del PieroThe team will be owned and operated by Delhi-based DEN Networks. The team has entered an alliance with Dutch club Feyenoord. Their home ground is Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium.
Look out for the world’s tallest goalkeeper in The Delhi Dynamos.
KERALA
BLASTERS FC
Kerala Blasters FC is an Indian
Super League football franchise in Kochi, Kerala. The team is owned by former Indian cricket great Sachin
Tendulkar and PVP Ventures. Kerala Blasters will play their home games at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium locally
known as Kaloor International Stadium. The current capacity of the ground is
65,000. David James and Michael Chopra are huge promoters of Indian football
and are fired up for the league.
NORTH EAST
UNITED FC
NEUFC
are the only club in ISL based on region and not a city. John Abraham says, “We
are 8”. The team will be owned and
operated by Bollywood actor John
Abraham and I-League club, Shillong
Lajong. On July 16, it was announced that Spanish
World Cup winner Joan Capdevila had
signed a deal to become Northeast United Football Club’s marquee player for the
Indian Super League. With strong grassroot programmes, this club shall impress
one and all.
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