Mumbai City
FC kick off the Hero Indian Super League on Tuesday with a trip to Atlético de Kolkata. It will be both sides first game
in the newly established league which has been set up to deliver
high quality football to hundreds of millions of fans, or so the
league claims.
There are a
total of 8 teams in the league:
Mumbai City
FC
Delhi
Dynamos FC
FC Goa
NorthEast
United
FC Pune City
Chennaiyin
FC
Atlético de Kolkata
Kerala Blasters FC
All of the teams have a
marquee player, the likes of which are Arsenal legends Robert Pires (FC Goa) and Freddie Ljungberg (Mumbai City). Other marquee players include:
Joan Capdevila (NorthEast United FC), Alessandro Del
Piero (Delhi Dynamos FC), David Trezeguet (FC Pune City), Mikael Silvestre
(Chennaiyin FC), David James (Kerala Blasters FC) and Luis Garcia (Atlético de Kolkata).
The teams will all play each other in a tournament style,
each playing one another twice before being put into a knockout phase. Here
there are 4 finalists. Semi Finalist 1 will play Semi Finalist 4 over 2 legs
with Semi Finalists 2 and 3 doing the same. The winner of these two games will
play each other in the final which will undoubtedly be the biggest game of the
year for the league and it’s here where the overall league champions will be
crowned.
All 8 teams will be battling it out to win the first ever Indian Super League and their name on the trophy and who can blame them? The first club to get their hands on the silverware is sure to go down in ISL history.
ThatCoultasGuy, 2014.
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