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Lajong sending players to international training program

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Press Trust of India Shillong

Eugeneson Lyngdoh, Lalramluaha and Lalthuammawia Ralte will be a part of the training program with a Danish first division club, FCV Vikings, Lajong's secretary Larsing M Sawyang said.

The exposure trip was a part of the deal made by the club with Anglian Holdings Sports and Marketing, a Dubai based, NRI-owned Multi National Corporation earlier this year.

The trip will also serve as an exercise to gauge the standards of the Indian League players as the three footballers seek to gain valuable international experience from this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Sawyan said.

In the last two years, Shillong Lajong FC had sent 23 of its junior players to the world's best clubs like Manchester United, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich for exposure.

 

The Denmark trip, however, is the first when the club is sending its top I-league players.

"We hope to conduct many such exposure trips in the future which shall include promising players, junior coaching staff as well as managers and executives of SLFC," the club official said.

The club's upcoming and popular young midfielder said, "We have heard so much about European players and to actually get to play alongside them will take me to a new level. I hope it will also equip me with better skills and knowledge to improve as a footballer".

The team is also preparing for its 2012-13 I-League session later this month.

  

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First Published: Jul 13 2012 | 8:05 PM IST

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