{"id":2852,"date":"2016-08-04T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/india-to-play-bhutan-in-practice-matc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:58:44","slug":"india-to-play-bhutan-in-practice-matc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/india-to-play-bhutan-in-practice-matc\/","title":{"rendered":"India to play Bhutan in a practice match on August 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Indian National Team will play Bhutan in an unofficial away practice match onAugust 13, 2016. The 23-member squad is presently sweating it out in a pre-season Camp in Delhi.<\/p>\n

Speaking to www.the-aiff.com National Coach Stephen Constantine mentioned that it was \u201cimportant to get a game at such a short notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWe are a bit disappointed that the tour to USA didn\u2019t happen. In such a situation it was very important for us to get a game but we managed to get one at such a short notice,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a squad of 23 Players who have not trained for the last two to three months. A lot of them are youngsters and it just gives us a chance to give these boys a bit more of International experience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of guys who have been knocking at the door to get in and with Bengaluru FC and East Bengal having not released their Players, it provided the opportunity for some other people to get some exposure,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have said all along that we are trying to build a bigger pool of Players. There is a fierce competition for places and I think this game is important in the development of young Players,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, some Players and staff were hit by a bout of food poisoning on Wednesday (August 3, 2016). The squad has been practicing in the Capital since July 26.<\/p>\n

Bhutan are presently preparing for their Qualifiers for the Asian Cup Qualifiers. \u201cThe Players in Bhutan are presently playing in their League. They will have a lot of games under their belt,\u201d Constantine mentioned.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AIFF Media The Indian National Team will play Bhutan in an unofficial away practice match onAugust 13, 2016. The 23-member squad is presently sweating it out in a pre-season Camp in Delhi. Speaking to www.the-aiff.com National Coach Stephen Constantine mentioned that it was \u201cimportant to get a game at such a short notice.\u201d \u201cWe are a bit disappointed that the tour to USA didn\u2019t happen. In such a situation it was very important for us to get a game but we managed to get one at such a short notice,\u201d he stated. \u201cWe have a squad of 23 Players who <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,169,166],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-aiff","tag-football","tag-sports","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","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=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71919,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/71919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}