The actor and football enthusiast Abraham has, however, admitted that the next game would be one of the toughest considering the way they played to beat Mumbai FC at the inaugural match.
"Kolkata is a tough side but we are a young team... We will give our heart. We'll put up a fight like no one has ever seen," Abraham told reporters during his one hour-long visit here yesterday.
"They are a bunch of warriors out there," he said, optimistic that his team would give Atletico de Kolkata a tough fight in the latter's home turf.
As for the composition of the NE United FC, Abraham said NE United FC was the only team in the ISL where domestic players had been drawn exclusively from the region.
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He also said the passion for football across the region was unmatched pointing out that his team co-owner and Shillong Lajong's MD Larsing M Sawyan was a football player himself.
Speaking on the involvement of Bollywood superstars and cricket players as team owners, Abraham said, "This is important to draw eyeballs initially."
However, he said, football was a sport of purist and domestic heroes should be crowd pullers.
"As a team owner, my job is to build these domestic heroes," he said negating views that the ISL would turn out to be a show of vanity.