Name of the owners and eight
franchisees of the inaugural Indian Super League (ISL) have been announced by
the All Indian Football Federation (AIFF).
According to the confirmation from IMG
Reliance and Star India, the promoters of the ISL, the franchises
are based in Delhi, Bangalore, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune.
Name of the stakeholders has also been
unveiled. Former Indian cricket captains Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly,
and Bollywood stars John Abraham, Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor are among the
luckiest bidders.
Sachin Tendulkar along with the
business group PVP ventures has bagged the franchise for Kochi while Sourav
Ganguly has made a consortium in association with Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjeev
Goenka, Utsav Parekh and Spanish La Liga soccer club Atletico Madrid to become
the owner of Kolkata team.
Indian film stars Salman Khan, Ranbir
Kapoor and John Abraham have bought Pune, Mumbai and Guwahati respectively. Bangalore
and Delhi are solely owned by Sun Group and Den Network.
It is said that each of the eight teams
will have a top player. Former Manchester United star Dwight Yorke, former
Arsenal and French star Thierry Henry, former Argentina striker Hernan Crespo
and former Swedish star Fredrik Ljungberg are the probable ageing talents being
targeted for the league.
The base price for each team was kept
at Rs 12 crore and Kolkata became the highest bidding team after being sold at
Rs 18 crore. The inaugural season is scheduled to be held between September and
November this year.
0 comments:
Post a Comment