March 31: Defender Subir Sinha of Air-India will lead Maharashtra in the 54th Senior National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy to be held at Guwahati from April 6 to 27. The team leaves for Guwahati tomorrow (April 1) and will play Sikkim in their opening match on April 6.The team
Goalkeepers: Yusuf Ansari, Partha Das (both Air-India) and K B Faisal (Bank of India).
Defenders: Sandip Kharat, Ajay Acharya, Subir Sinha (captain), Henry Picardo (all 4 of Air-India), S Majumdar (Mahindras), Evaristo Cardozo (Bank of India), Nasir Hussain (vice-capt, Central Bank) and Imtiyaz Qureshi (Solapur).
Midfielders: Satish Minz, Andrew Lewis (both of Mahindras), Taposh Ghosh, K Paite (both of Air-India), Caitano Fernandes (Central Bank) and Raju Mate (Sangli).
Forwards: Ratan Singh (RCF), Herbert Philip (Mahindras), Anthony Fernandes (Air-India), Xavier Swamy (Ahmednagar), Amar Pardeshi, Vijay Kumar (both of Poona) and Girish Majumdar (Jalgaon).
Coach:Bimal Ghosh (Air-India). Assistant coach: Santan D'Souza (Air-India).Manager: Abdul Rauf (Amravati) and Co-manager: Kishan Thakur (Poona).
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