{"id":17733,"date":"2013-10-04T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2013-10-04T07:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:04:55","slug":"mumbai-fc-confirms-attacker-sandjar-ahmadi-for-2013-14-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=17733","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai FC confirms attacker Sandjar Ahmadi for 2013-14 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>Mumbai<\/strong>: Mumbai FC officially confirms roping in Afghanistan International Sandjar Ahmadi for the 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The attacker, who awaited clearance, is thus set for his debut and begun training in earnest with the rest of the squad. Sandjar will be available for selection when Mumbai FC takes on defending champions Churchill Brothers in Goa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Atul Bagdamia, Vice-President, Mumbai FC, said: \u201cIt is a pleasure to have him (Sandjar) for the season. In the company of Amiri, we hope both produce similar efforts respectively as they did for their country in the SAFF Championship and help Mumbai FC&#8217;s campaign this season. We look forward to him score as many goals and wish him the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sandjar joins countryman defender Haroon Amiri in what is an Afghan-first at any club in the country. He also becomes the third Afghan player to ply his trade in the I-League after Amiri and former Churchill Bros striker Belal Arezou being the other. He is also the fourth player, Mohammed Mashriqi (Bhawanipore SC) being the other, from the South Asian nation to play in India.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Twenty-one-year-old Sandjar was born in Kabul, Afghanistan before his family moved to Hamburg in Germany. He grew up playing football as a youngster and also represented local side SC Vier-und Marschlande in the Oberliga Hamburg for two seasons covering 52 matches.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The attacker who can also play as a winger has been a regular in the Afghanistan National team scoring eight goals in 18 appearances overall since 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sandjar also bagged a couple of goals in the recently concluded SAFF Championships in Kathmandu, Nepal scoring against the hosts in the semi-final and India in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The 5\u201910\u201d player, in fact, was at Mumbai FC\u2019s game against Dempo SC at the Balewadi Sports Complex, Pune even though he couldn\u2019t play. Having trained for a few days with team now, he hopes to hit the ground running and make his mark as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sandjar\u2019s signing completes Mumbai FC\u2019s foreign quota, which includes Orok Essien and Ghanian Yusuf Yakubu.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>Mumbai<\/strong>: Mumbai FC officially confirms roping in Afghanistan International Sandjar Ahmadi for the 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The attacker, who awaited clearance, is thus set for his debut and begun training in earnest with the rest of the squad. Sandjar will be available for selection when Mumbai FC takes on defending champions Churchill Brothers in Goa on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[10925,10924,10849],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-atul-bagdamia","tag-debut-and-begun-training","tag-sandjar-ahmadi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mumbai FC confirms attacker Sandjar Ahmadi for 2013-14 season - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=17733\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mumbai FC confirms attacker Sandjar Ahmadi for 2013-14 season - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mumbai: Mumbai FC officially confirms roping in Afghanistan International Sandjar Ahmadi for the 2013-14 season.The attacker, who awaited clearance, is thus set for his debut and begun training in earnest with the rest of the squad. 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