Techno Aryan F.C.

Techno Aryan FC

Full name	Techno Aryan Football Club
Nickname(s)	Aryan, Aryans Club
Founded	1884
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium
Ground Capacity	120,000
Owner	Techno India Group
Chairman	Satyam Roy Chowdhury M.D. = Samar Kumar Paul
Manager	Raghu Nandy
League	I-League 2nd Division
Website	Club home page

Techno Aryan Football Club was founded in 1884 in name of Aryan Sports Club. It started playing football some years later, making it one of Asia’s oldest football clubs.

History

Before the advent of East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting, it was Aryan and Mohun Bagan who enjoyed an elite status among Indian football clubs. While Aryan didn’t enjoy the same degree of success as Green and Maroons, they did perform well in patches. One of Aryan’s greatest moments came in 1940. That year, they won IFA Shield, one of India’s premier tournaments. They became only the 3rd Indian run club to win the prestigious title. Moreover, they crushed Mohun Bagan 4-1 in the final. Sir Dukhiram Majumdar was father figure of the club during those days. It was he who started Aryan’s famous policy of bringing up unknown yet talented footballers.

Aryan enjoyed another spell of success in mid-1950s, reaching the final of Shield in 1955 and 1956 with an ageing Sahu Mewalal in their ranks. As the years progressed they gradually lost their status as a top club, instead Aryan became the breeding ground of some of the most famous players in Kolkata maidan. Players like Pradip Kumar Banerjee, Prasun Banerjee, Goutam Sarkar and Sudhir Karmakar started out in Aryan, before moving on to the bigger clubs. Other than another IFA Shield win in 1983 (title shared with East Bengal), Aryan didn’t achieve a lot of success in modern era.^[1]

Sponsors

The Club is being sponsored by the Techno India Group for last three years.^[2][3]

Current Squad

Squad for I-League second Division 2011.^[4][5] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Cheeradip Chatterjee 2 DF Souvik Guha 3 DF Mohan Sarkar 4 DF Sukalpa Mondal 6 MF Gopal Debnath 7 MF Sirajul Mistri 8 MF Manik Barman 10 FW Baba Tunde 12 MF Surajit Roy 13 GK Shibram Dey 14 MF Phul Chand Hembram 15 DF Raju Koley DF Santu Das DF Luis Ebami MF michael kumar

No. Position Player 16 DF Avik Guha 17 DF Avinabo Bagiello 18 MF Sayantan Das Roy 19 MF Shubo Kumar 20 MF Arbaz Ahmad 21 DF Shyam Mondal 22 MF Bulu Jigdung 23 FW satya 25 MF Snehasish Dutta DF Subhankar Nag 27 DF Paban Das 29 FW Godson 31 GK Jhantu Mondal GK Rana Chakrabarty DF Sourav Chakravarty

External links

• Official Website|http://technoaryanclub.com/aryan/index.php
• http://kolkatafootball.com/indiafootball_news_2011/march19thpart_2011.html#aryan_club
• http://www.thehardtackle.com/index.php/aryan-club-rising-from-the-ashes/

References