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NEW DELHI: Indian Senior National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac has released another batch of six players from the ongoing preparatory camp in New Delhi.<\/p>\nNEW DELHI: Indian Senior National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac has released another batch of six players from the ongoing preparatory camp in New Delhi.<\/p>\n
The second batch of the six released players includes Narayan Das, Salam Ranjan Singh, Dhanpal Ganesh, Rowllin Borges, Komal Thatal. In addition, central defender Anwar Ali (Jr) has also been released owing to an injury.<\/p>\n
The Camp which kicked-off with 37 players on May 21, currently has a strength of 25 players. Stimac had earlier released a first batch of 6 players earlier. <\/p>\n
The final list of 23 players for India\u2019s campaign in the King\u2019s Cup will be announced prior to departure to Buriram.<\/p>\n
Stimac, who as a coach had guided Croatia to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 stated that it is \u201calways difficult for the coach to take hard decisions, and release players.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are more than happy with the commitment of the players so far, and have really enjoyed working with them every day,\u201d Stimac said. \u201cThey are passionate, excited, and are making obvious progress on a daily basis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hardest part of the job comes when decisions are to be done about releasing some of them after hard work they put in for the past ten days,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s (May 29) game which we played as part of our evening training session, we decided to release another 6 players. All of them have been handed their individual working programme which is to be followed, and monitored. I wish them good luck, and expect them to be working hard,\u201d the Coach maintained.<\/p>\n
The Blue Tigers will be leaving for Buriram en route Bangkok on June 2 from New Delhi. The King’s Cup is a FIFA-sanctioned International \u2018A\u2019 tournament being organised by the Football Association of Thailand since 1968. India’s previous participation in the King’s Cup were in 1977, and 1981.<\/p>\n
India play their first match against Curacao on June 5, with hosts Thailand taking on Vietnam in the other match on the same day. The winners of both the matches qualify for the final, while the two others teams would be playing the play-off for the 3rd spot on June 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Indian Senior National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac has released another batch of six players from the ongoing preparatory camp in New Delhi.<\/p>\n
The second batch of the six released players includes Narayan Das, Salam Ranjan Singh, Dhanpal Ganesh, Rowllin Borges, Komal Thatal. In addition, central defender Anwar Ali (Jr) has also been released owing to an injury.<\/p>\n
The Camp which kicked-off with 37 players on May 21, currently has a strength of 25 players. Stimac had earlier released a first batch of 6 players earlier. <\/p>\n
The final list of 23 players for India\u2019s campaign in the King\u2019s Cup will be announced prior to departure to Buriram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football"],"yoast_head":"\n