{"id":2818,"date":"2016-08-09T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/indian-national-squad-lands-in-bhutan\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:54:32","slug":"indian-national-squad-lands-in-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/indian-national-squad-lands-in-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIAN NATIONAL SQUAD LANDS IN BHUTAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<br \/><b><i>AIFF Media Team<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A squad of 20 Players landed in Thimphu from New Delhi for India\u2019s forthcoming Friendly practice match against Bhutan. The match, an unofficial one is slated to be played on August 13.<\/p>\n<p>The squad proceeded to Thimphu after a 13-day long pre-season training Camp where National Coach Stephen Constantine looked at many first-timers in an effort to \u201cexpand the pool of Players\u201d for the National Team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-a8hzpj8LRkA\/V6n6TcoosmI\/AAAAAAABOhU\/jSNc0iE43oI3IdlHn7L_42cxmFgs9IPoQCLcB\/s1600\/Need%2Bto%2Bacclimatize%2Bfast%252C%2Bsays%2BConstantine..JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"386\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Needtoacclimatizefast2CsaysConstantine..jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSpeaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-aiff.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.the-aiff.com<\/a> prior to departure, Constantine mentioned that the squad needs to \u201cacclimatise fast to the colder temperatures and high altitude\u201d in Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the weather in Bhutan will be a concern. Obviously the temperatures will be quite different from what we have at present in India,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a lot more colder than what we had in Delhi. But that\u2019s something which we will have to adjust to. Dealing with different climatic conditions is part of International Football and at the end of the day it all boils down to how you play,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously the match will be played at a much higher altitude but we will train for four days to acclimatise,\u201d he felt.<\/p>\n<p>Bhutan are presently preparing for their 2019 Asian Cup UAE Qualifiers and the match will serve as a preparation for their first-leg match against Bangladesh on September 6.<\/p>\n<p>The squad is as follows:<br \/>GOALKEEPERS: Subrata Paul, T.P Rehenesh, Laxmikant Kattimani.<br \/>DEFENDERS: Sandesh Jhingan, Fluganco Cardozo, Chinglesana Konsham Singh, Aiborlang Khongjee, Koushik Sarkar.<br \/>MIDFIELDERS: Isaac Chhakchhuak, Rowlin Borges, Dhanpal Ganesh, David Lalrinmuana, Vinit Rai, Germanpreet Singh, Pronoy Halder, Lallianzuala Chhangte, Jackichand Singh.<br \/>FORWARDS: Halicharan Narzary, Jeje Lalpekhlua, Sumeet Passi.<br \/>COACH: Stephen Constantine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIFF Media Team A squad of 20 Players landed in Thimphu from New Delhi for India\u2019s forthcoming Friendly practice match against Bhutan. The match, an unofficial one is slated to be played on August 13. The squad proceeded to Thimphu after a 13-day long pre-season training Camp where National Coach Stephen Constantine looked at many first-timers in an effort to \u201cexpand the pool of Players\u201d for the National Team. Speaking to www.the-aiff.com prior to departure, Constantine mentioned that the squad needs to \u201cacclimatise fast to the colder temperatures and high altitude\u201d in Bhutan. \u201cI don\u2019t think the weather in Bhutan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,169,8,166],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-aiff","tag-football","tag-news-events","tag-sports","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21922,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/21922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}