Date:30/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/30/stories/2008093061152100.htm

Sport - Football

Indian U-16 squad for AFC championship

New Delhi: A 23-member Indian football squad will leave for Tashkent on Wednesday to take part in the final round of the AFC Under-16 football championship, starting October 4. India, which has been clubbed in Group B, faces South Korea on October 4, Syria two days later and Indonesia on October 8.

The squad: Goalkeepers: Abhishek Das, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Jayanta Paul. Defenders: Ajit Dhurva Bhoir, Vikas Guila, Asish Chhetri, Deepak Devrani, Sumit Rawat, Tonmoy Ghosh, R. Vishal Kumar.

Midfielders: Akshay Mall, Harpreet Bedi, Bikramjit Singh, Shilton D’Silva, O Lalrindika, Sunny, Tirthankar Sarkar, Ongnam Milan Singh. Forwards: Manandeep, Abhishek Das, Malsawmfela, Prem Kumar, Vivek Kumar. Chief coach: Colin Toal. — PTI