Bengaluru: Bengaluru Football Club, on Sunday, announced their 32-man squad for the upcoming 2021-22 Indian Super League season. The team, led by German-Italian Head Coach Marco Pezzaiuoli, are set to face NorthEast United in their first fixture of the campaign on Saturday, November 20th.
We took help from our little friends at the Sri Guru Harkrishan School to announce our squad for the 2021-22 Indian Super League season.#WeAreBFC #ComeTogether #ChildrensDayhttps://t.co/HNB7FHs3QS
— Bengaluru FC (@bengalurufc) November 14, 2021
On the occasion of Children’s Day, the club had students from Sri Guru Harkrishan School in Bengaluru draw the players for the announcement of the squad, which was made via a post on Bengaluru FC’s Social Media handles.
The little heroes who gave us a helping hand for the 2021-22 Indian Super League squad announcement. ❤ #ChildrensDay #WeAreBFC pic.twitter.com/RMPoVGH2Kr
— Bengaluru FC (@bengalurufc) November 14, 2021
“I” m happy with our squad for the season. It’s a good group that has a nice mix of youngsters and foreigners, and a good base of Indian internationals. There are a lot of different personalities in this squad, who will bring important things to the team. Our aim is to make the players we have better, as the season progresses and to also finish in a much better position than we did last season,” said Blues Head Coach, Marco Pezzaiuoli.
Club captain Sunil Chhetri will lead the side into a League campaign for a ninth consecutive season, with a squad that comprises as many as three players who played in the club’s Reserve squad last season – Akashdeep Singh, Damaitphang Lyngdoh and Sivasakthi Narayanan.
“It’s important to remember that our efforts will need time. We’ve trained with the complete squad together for the first time only after the first week of November. The idea is to get everyone up to speed as fast as possible. All the parts will have to come together to form the big picture and the effort is on to make it happen soon,” Pezzaiuoli added.
The Blues’ foreign contingent for the season include Brazilians Cleiton Silva, Bruno Ramires and Alan Costa, Congolese striker Prince Ibara, Iranian midfielder Iman Basafa and Gabonese centre-back Yrondu Musavu-King.
The 2021-22 campaign is Bengaluru’s fifth in the Indian Super League, with the Blues having made the final in their first two seasons, winning in 2018-19, and the semifinal the following year, in 2019-20.
Bengaluru FC ISL Squad 2021-22
Goalkeepers: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Lara Sharma, Sharon Padattil
THE SQUAD! On #ChildrensDay, we took help from the little ones at Sri Guru Harkrishan School to draw the Blues that will represent Namma Ooru in the 2021-22 Indian Super League. Part One, the Goalkeepers. #WeAreBFC #ComeTogether pic.twitter.com/OHZblmthl7
— Bengaluru FC (@bengalurufc) November 14, 2021
Defenders: Pratik Chaudhari, Wungngayam Muirang, Ajith Kumar, Parag Shrivas, Alan Costa, Sarthak Golui, Yrondu Musavu-King
Full marks to the little one who stuck a star above his drawing of Pratik Chaudhari. ⭐
Bengaluru, these are your defenders for the 2021-22 Indian Super League, announced with a little help from the lovely children at Sri Guru Harkrishan School.#WeAreBFC #ChildrensDayl pic.twitter.com/aG7qeeFmmD
— Bengaluru FC (@bengalurufc) November 14, 2021
Midfielders: Suresh Wangjam, Ajay Chhetri, Ashique Kuruniyan, Namgyal Bhutia, Naorem Roshan Singh, Biswa Darjee, Damaitphang Lyngdoh, Akashdeep Singh, Rohit Kumar, Jayesh Rane, Danish Farooq, Bruno Ramires, Iman Basafa
Thirteen midfielders in the Blues' squad for the 2021-22 Indian Super League. Let's go! ⚡
The art for this was made by the lovely children at Sri Guru Harkrishan School in Ulsoor.#WeAreBFC #ComeTogether #ChildrensDay pic.twitter.com/9fAyFFTstf
— Bengaluru FC (@bengalurufc) November 14, 2021
Forwards: Sunil Chhetri, Edmund Lalrindika, Udanta Singh, Cleiton Silva, Leon Augustine, Sivasakthi Narayanan, Prince Ibara, Harmanpreet Singh, Bidyashagar Singh.
The Blues have nine attackers in their squad for the 2021-22 @indiansuperleague season.
Pick your favourite drawing, made by the little ones from Shri Guru Harkrishan School in Ulsoor, on #ChildrensDay.#WeAreBFC #ComeTogether pic.twitter.com/1zeL4OfKAx
— Bengaluru FC (@bengalurufc) November 14, 2021