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MUMBAI: As India gear up for the second match in the Hero International tri-series against St Kitts and Nevis to be played at the Mumbai Football Arena on August 24, Coach Stephen Constantine lavished huge praise on the newly-appointed captain Sandesh Jhingan.<\/p>\n
“The captain has to reflect the character of the team. He has to set the tone of the team. Sandesh is a fighter like me who loves to lead the side from the front,\u201d Constantine said.<\/p>\n
Jhingan, who leads the crop of the new breed of Indian Footballers had made his debut for India against Nepal, which was Constantine\u2019s first match as a Coach in his second stint.<\/p>\n
\u201cSandesh to me a player who should be playing is a bigger league,\u201d Constantine certified.<\/p>\n
The defender par excellence, wasn\u2019t too much willing to be over the moon. \u201cPlaying for your Country is itself a great honour and here I am, leading my Country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Jhingan has played a stellar role in the Indian back-four along with Anas Etathodika, Pritam Kotal, Narayan Das and Gurpreet Sandhu (in goal) in helping India create a new record for Indian Football in winning nine International matches (including the un-official match against Bhutan).<\/p>\n
Constantine further went to say that Sandesh is a one of the ‘leaders for the future.’<\/p>\n
“In coming days, at least we can identify Sandesh as a leader once Sunil hangs his boots,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Chhetri, along with Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Udanta Singh will be joining the National Camp after Bengaluru FC\u2019s AFC Cup stint.<\/p>\n
India have won two of their two matches in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers against Myanmar (away) and Kyrgyz Republic (at home) and will face Macau on September 5 (in Macau).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: As India gear up for the second match in the Hero International tri-series against St Kitts and Nevis to be played at the Mumbai Football Arena on August 24, Coach Stephen Constantine lavished huge praise on the newly-appointed captain Sandesh Jhingan. “The captain has to reflect the character of the team. He has to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[1343,22574,6480,466,14831,11624],"class_list":["post-35357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-football","tag-hero-international-tri-series","tag-indian-sports","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-sandesh-jhingan","tag-stephen-constantine"],"yoast_head":"\n