Denson Devdas from Kannur will be playing for Bengal this Santosh trophy
West Bengal announced their Santosh Trophy squad earlier today. Kannur native Denson Devadas playing for Chirag United along with Dhanarajan has been included in the squad. Being a midfielder Denson himself had admitted earlier that it would be tough for him to find a place in the Strong Kerala squad with the likes of Pradeep and Sushanth Mathew.
This is the second player from Kannur in the present Santosh Trophy squad representing another State with Tamilnadu's scoring machine Riju being the first.
Bengal Squad:
Goalkeepers: Subhashish Roy Chowdhury (Mahindra United), Abhra Mondal (East Bengal Club)
Defenders: Habibur Rehman Mondal (Mohun Bagan AC, Captain), Anupam Sarkar (East Bengal Club), Arnab Mondal (Chirag United SC), Sheikh Azim (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Rajib Ghosh (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Biswajit Saha (George Telegraph SC), Safar Sardar (George Telegraph SC)
Midfielders: Lal Kamal Bhowmick (Mohun Bagan AC), Karthik Kisku (Mohun Bagan AC), Surojit Roy (Air India), Snehashis Chakraborty (Chirag United SC), Gouranga Biswas (Chirag United SC), Denson Devadas (Chirag United SC), Gautam Thakur (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Subho Kumar (George Telegraph SC)
Forwards: Pachau Lalam Puia (Mohun Bagan AC), Surojit Bose (Mahindra United), Tarif Ahmed (ONGC, Mumbai)
Officials: Raghu Nandy (Coach, George Telegraph SC), Arpan Dey (Goalkeeping Coach), Prasun Banerjee (Manager)
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Thursday 28 May 2009, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.