Shukla Dutta Takes Helm as India U19 Ladies’s Soccer Crew Head Coach

Former India participant Shukla Dutta was on Saturday appointed the nation’s U19 ladies’s soccer group coach forward of the SAFF Championships in February subsequent yr.

Dutta, a former India U17 ladies’s group coach, will probably be assisted by ex-India worldwide Sradhanjali Samantaray, and goalkeeping coach Lourembam Ronibala Chanu in an all-women assist workers group.

The India group will start its preparations for the SAFF Championships early subsequent month in Goa.

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“The Beneath-19 SAFF for ladies is a crucial match for us. This match is a stepping stone for proficient gamers to maneuver to the following stage, which is the seniors,” stated All India Soccer Federation appearing secretary-general M Satyanarayan in an announcement.

“It’s nice to seek out that we’ve an all-women technical workers for the U19 ladies’s group,” Satyanarayan added.

The competitors began in 2018 and India has participated 4 instances, bagging the title in 2022, whereas ending runners-up to Bangladesh within the 2021 version.

India had completed third this yr.

The digital assembly to pick the assist workers was chaired by former India captain IM Vijayan and attended by Satyanarayan, Manoranjan Bhattacharya (deputy chairman, technical committee), Syed Sabir Pasha (technical director), amongst others.

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