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AIFF clears 231 inter-State club transfers

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KOLKATA, JUNE 9. The All-India Football Federation (AIFF) has cleared 231 names in the first three lists of the "first window'' of the inter-State club football transfers.

Mahindra United, Mumbai, JCT Mills, Phagwara, Mohun Bagan, Kolkata made big moves, while Churchill Brothers and Vasco roped in maximum number of players among the Goa clubs.

Many Goa clubs, which devote most of their money and resources preparing for the NFL, will apparently wait for the "second window'' of transfer at the end of the year.

The transfer list: NFL clubs: Churchill Brothers: Subhas Singha Roy (from City AC, Bengal), Subhasish Roy Chowdhury (East Bengal), Thokchom Bungo Singh (Mohammedan Sporting), Somatai Shaiza (Mohun Bagan), Sharhat Raza (Mohammedan AC); Dempo SC: Ishfaq Ahmad (ITI SC), Satish Kumar Bharti (Mohammedan Sporting); East Bengal: Habibur Rahaman Mondal (TFA), Climax Lawrence, Rajat Ghosh Dastidar (both Salgaocar), Selwyn Fernandes (Vasco), Akshay Das (Sporting Clube de Goa); Fransa FC: Penpa Tshering Bhutia (Sikkim United), Sampath Kumar Kuttymani, Malshangva Genuis Zenith (both ITI SC, Bangalore), T. Roopesh (Indian Bank), Parminder Singh (JCT), Arijit Mondal (George Telegraph, Bengal), V. Santhosh (FC Kochin); Sporting Clube: C. K. Jitesh (ITI SC), Jaswant Singh Parmar (JCT), E. Mahendra Mani (Indian Bank), T. V. Biju Kumar; JCT Mills: Bimanyu Bimal Birua, Sumit Thapa, Subhas Mondal (all TFA), Sukhwinder Singh (Vasco SC), Rahul (Sanjay Public School, Chandigarh), Hardeep Gill, Harpreet Singh (both Mohun Bagan), Surjit Singh (Mohammedan Sporting); Mahindra United: Debabrata Roy, Chaitan Mukhi (both TFA), Jatin Singh Bisht (Salgaocar), K. Muhammed Nisam (SBT), Mahesh Gawli, Kaliya Kulothungan, Sandip Nandy (all East Bengal), Khalid Siddiqi, Dipendu Biswas (both Mohammedan Sporting); Mohun Bagan: Mehraj-ud-din Wadoo (Sporting Clube), Jerry Zirsanga (TFA), Tomba Singh (Salgaocar SC), Nongmaithem Rajesh Meetei, Noel Anthony Wilson (both Churchill Brothers), Eduardo Coelho Lacerda (HAL, Bangalore); Salgaocar SC: Pawan Kumar (JCT), A. Jyothi Kumar (Chennai Customs FC), Marcos Pereira (Mohun Bagan), Arjun Pandit (Shastri Club, Delhi); Tollygunge Agragami: Tashi Rapden Bhutia, Leezang Lepcha (both Boys Club, Sikkim), Manjit Singh (Punjab Police); Vasco SC: Aseem K. Koralyaden, Rajesh Kumar Pandey (both Indian Bank), Virender Singh (Punjab Police), Satish Minz (Mohammedan Sporting), Arun Ghosh (Mohammedan AC, Kolkata), T.G. Purushothaman (SBT), K. Anees (MES Mampad College, Kerala).

Other clubs: Indian Bank: Noah Rozario (Fransa FC), V.K. Harish (Mahindra Utd), Gregory Clarke (Vasco SC), Andrew Louis (Sporting Clube); TFA: S. Naveen Kumar (Southern Blues, Karnataka), S. Murlidharren (BEL, Karnataka), K. Deepak (Southern Blues); Mohammedan Sporting: Amjad Hussain (Indian Bank), Mohamed Bin Hassan (Indian Bank), Goutam Ghosh (HAL SC), Nirmal Khatri (Williamson Magor FA, Assam); Hindustan FC, Delhi: Ranvijay Singh (FCI, Bengal), Amit Sharma (Bhratri Sangha, Bengal), Irfan Zaman Khan (Bhratri Sangha), Bijjender Kumar (Bhratri Sangha); ICF, Chennai: A. Vimal Raj (ITI SC), R.P. Ashok Kumar (ITI SC); Punjab Police: Tajinder Kumar (ITI SC); BMFC, Mumbai: Mohammad Ismail (Karnataka State Police), Sagar Thapa, Pun Yuvraj Ramsingh Bhai (both Young Challenger, Gujarat), Jimmy Kazip, Serto Rocky Kom (both FC Kochin); Central Railway: George Dennis Xavier (Sporting Clube), N. K. Dileep (ITI SC); HAL: Rajesh Thomas, L. Akbar Singh (both FC Kochin); Mohammedan AC: Thupden Tshering Bhutia (Sikkim Police), Ekamual Mullick (Tarun Sangha, Delhi), Haobijam Newton Singh (Williamson Magor FA), Tharngachan (AGORC, Karnataka).