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BMFC’s new project: A sports city

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Sudeep Pakrashi

Posted: Jun 17, 2008 at 0148 hrs IST

Kolkata, June 16 After a 10-year-long journey in Mumbai football, the Bengal Mumbai Football Club (BMFC) has undertaken a whole new initiative.

Apart from focusing on the sport, the club now wants to concentrate on the business front. Keeping the new goal in mind, the BMFC’s top brass is looking to launch a whole new ‘sports city’ somewhere in the outskirts of Mumbai. The club’s administration wants to set up this sports city alongside the Pune Express highway.

Considering the plans for this huge project, the BMFC club, having already acquired acres of land for the long-term programme, wants to construct a stadium and set up a state-of-the-art sports multiplex in the same compound. And in a bid to fulfill this dream, the club’s chairman Krishnendu Sen is trying hard to rope in substantial investments from abroad. As part of the initiative, the chairman had already made a long trip to England last April.

Although Sen refused to divulge too many details about the discussions he has had with foreign institutions during his England trip, the BMFC chairman Sen indicated that talks had also taken place with world renowned clubs Manchester United and West Ham. He said: “The initiative has begun. It’s not so easy to make the programme materialise in quick time. Having said that, considering the discussions we have had with some foreign financial institutions and clubs like Manchester United and West Ham, I must say that our dream will definitely take shape, and the programme will be the first of its kind in India.”

The BMFC club, meanwhile, has also formed a sports foundation that will come forward and hand over substantial amounts of grant to the wives of star sports personalities of yesteryears who have departed, like Krishanu Dey, Brazilian striker Junior, Test cricketer Raman Lamba and Nigerian striker Charles.

Sen told this daily that the club has decided to organise two exhibition matches in Mumbai and in Kolkata involving film stars from Bollywood and Tollywood this July, and the funds raised from the two exhibition matches will be handed over to the widows. “We are also thinking of presenting a sum of money to the wife of late Sudip Chatterjee next time,” the BMFC chairman said.

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