{"id":450781,"date":"2011-06-30T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/blackburn-rovers-request-for-match-against-east-bengal-in-july-as-part-of-pre-season-tour\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:02:00","slug":"blackburn-rovers-request-for-match-against-east-bengal-in-july-as-part-of-pre-season-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/blackburn-rovers-request-for-match-against-east-bengal-in-july-as-part-of-pre-season-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers request for match against East Bengal in July as part of pre-season tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Rahul Bali<\/h3>\n<h4>30 Jun 2011 09:02:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"77.2692307692\">\n<div readability=\"17.0776255708\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BPL, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/122000\/122078_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>BPL, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"44.3231197772\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/108\/blackburn-rovers\">Blackburn Rovers<\/a> are hoping to face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/india\/790\/east-bengal\">East Bengal<\/a> as part of their pre-season tour this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kean&#8217;s side, who are owned by Indian company Venky&#8217;s, have made a formal request to UB Group, which sponsors East Bengal under the banner of Kingfisher, to play a friendly against the Kolkata giants.<\/p>\n<p>Anuradha Desai, Venky\u2019s chairperson, had mentioned that they are keen on bringing their team to the country as part of their pre-season tour.<\/p>\n<p>Amit Sen, director of East Bengal, told <strong>Goal.com<\/strong>: \u201cThere has been a formal request been made to the UB Group\u2019s sports head, Fraser Castellino. The match is likely to be scheduled somewhere around July 22 as Blackburn are expected to be in Pune for some promotional work for Venky\u2019s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, a number of East Bengal&#8217;s first-team stars will be unavailable due to international duty and the club&#8217;s foreign players are not expected to be back until mid-August along with their coach Trevor Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Sen said: \u201cThe problem is we do not have our foreign players and have about five players in the national camp which means nine of our first team players are out. We made this known to Mr.Fraser, who is a sensible man and shall then take a call on this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to speak about how big an honour it would be for the I-League runners-up to be facing a Premier League side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is certainly an honour for us to be invited but for the moment it doesn\u2019t look feasible. The match has been scheduled way too early for us and it is looking a little dicey,\u201d Sen added.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a European club would want to play in India, with Oliver Kahn featuring for Bayern Munich against Mohun Bagan two seasons ago.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina are also expected to play an international friendly match at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata in September against Venezuela.<br \/><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/30\/2554162\/blackburn-rovers-request-for-match-against-east-bengal-in\" title=\"Blackburn Rovers request for match against East Bengal in July as part of pre-season tour\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackburn Rovers request for match against East Bengal in July as part of pre-season tour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Rahul Bali 30 Jun 2011 09:02:00 BPL, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Blackburn Rovers are hoping to face East Bengal as part of their pre-season tour this summer. Steve Kean&#8217;s side, who are owned by Indian company Venky&#8217;s, have made a formal request to UB Group, which sponsors East Bengal under the banner of Kingfisher, to play a friendly against the Kolkata giants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blackburn Rovers request for match against East Bengal in July as part of pre-season tour - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/blackburn-rovers-request-for-match-against-east-bengal-in-july-as-part-of-pre-season-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blackburn Rovers request for match against East Bengal in July as part of pre-season tour - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Rahul Bali 30 Jun 2011 09:02:00 BPL, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Blackburn Rovers are hoping to face East Bengal as part of their pre-season tour this summer. 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