{"id":27926,"date":"2017-06-12T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27926"},"modified":"2017-06-12T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:31:01","slug":"i-league-football-club-for-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/i-league-football-club-for-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"New I-League Football Club For Trivandrum Gets Nod!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governing body for soccer in India has given the green signal to form a new I-League club in Kerala based in Trivandrum. The new I-Leauge team will be owned by Singapore-based MySports Management.<\/p>\n<p>MySports\u2019 CEO Jiri Cerny told ET that the sports management company has received a go-ahead from the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) to launch a new team in Trivandrum ahead of the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All-India Football Federation (AIFF) has given the go-ahead to launch a new team in Trivandrum ahead of the 2018 season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em>We have approval from the Federation and a five-year strategic plan in place,<\/em>\u201d Cerny said, adding that MySports already has European companies supporting the team. \u201c<em>We will be spending close to `20 crore per season, which is six times more than this year I-League winner Aizawl FC, but at the same time, 30% less than what a normal ISL team spends<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MySports will rope in foreign coaches and western management style to popularise football. \u201c<em>We are coming to develop football in India. We also have plans to start a football academy where we will train young talented kids between 9-16 years,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the I-Leauge team will have to depend on international players as well as players from other regions, but going forward, the club will train players in the state itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governing body for soccer in India has given the green signal to form a new I-League club in Kerala based in Trivandrum. The new I-Leauge team will be owned by Singapore-based MySports Management. MySports\u2019 CEO Jiri Cerny told ET that the sports management company has received a go-ahead from the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27928,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27926\/revisions\/27928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}