India announces its 25 member squad for the upcoming matches

Today, India announced its 25 member squad for the upcoming international friendlies. They take on Bahrain and Belarus.

India’ football coach Igor Stimac had announced a 38 man squad who were training in Pune since March 10. Today, 25 off them have been selected.

Out of those, 25 have been selected . They will fly to Bahrain where they take on the home team and then Belarus.

The Blue Tigers will face the hosts, Bahrain on the 23rd of March. 3 days later they take on the Belarus football team.

Both matches are set to kick of at 9:30 pm IST.

The two friendlies act as a part of the preparation for AFC Asia Cup qualifiers, 2023. The qualifiers begin from June, this year.

The qualifier matches for India will be held in Kolkata, beginning June 8.

They are in the group of Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. They are placed in Group D.

This is the 25 man list:
Goalkeepers – Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Amrinder Singh, Prabhshukhan Gill

Defenders – Pritam Kotal, Seriton Fernandes, Rahul Bheke,

Hormipam  Ruivah, Sandesh Jhingan, Chinglensana Singh, Akash Mishra, Roshan Singh, Subhasish Bose, Anwar Ali.

Midfielders – Anirudh Thapa, Pronay Halder, Jeakson Singh, Brandon Fernandes, VP Suhair, Yasir Mohammad, Aniket Jadav, Bipin Singh, Danish Farooq.

Forwards –  Manvir Singh, Liston Colaco, Rahim Ali.