Spain tops ISL foreign players’ pool list

August 18, 2014 06:01 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 07:07 pm IST - New Delhi

Players during a press conference ahead of Indian Super League in Mumbai. File photo

Players during a press conference ahead of Indian Super League in Mumbai. File photo

Nine players from Spain figure in the 49-strong international players’ central pool for the Hero Indian Super League (HISL). The draft will be held on August 21, 2014. A total of 56 foreigners will feature in the city-based tournament, seven other internationals were contracted directly by the franchise teams.

The average age listed is 28 years, with 186 appearances per player on an average. Other nationalities include France (eight), Czech Republic (eight), Brazil (five), Portugal (five), Colombia (five), South Korea (two), Argentina, Canada, Serbia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, England, Greece and Cameroon (one each).

The seven foreigners signed directly by four clubs are Delhi Dynamos FC (Mads Junker and Morten Skoubo), FC Pune City (Emanuele Belardi and Bruno Cirillo), North-East United FC (Isaac Chansa and Cornell Glen), Atletico de Kolkata (Borja Fernandez). The HISL is promoted by IMG-R and Star India.

The international players’ pool break-up is:

Goalkeepers--- André Matos Dias Pereira (Portugal); Apoula Edima Edel Bete (Cameroon); Gennaro Bracigliano (France); Jan Šeda (Czech Republic); Marek Čech (Czech).

Defenders--- Andrés Felipe González Ramírez (Colombia), Erwin Spitzner (Brazil), Henrique Dinis Oliveira Dias (Por), Ilias Pollalis (Greece), Massamba Lô Sambou (Senegal), Raphael Romey (Fra), Sylvain Monsoreau (Fra), Tomáš Josl (Czech), Grégory Arnolin (Fra), Bernard Mendy (Fra), Pavel Čmovš (Czech), Youness Bengelloun (Fra), Johann Letzelter (Fra), Cédric Hengbart (Fra), Jairo Andrés Suarez Carvajal (Col) José Miguel González Rey (Spain).

Midfielders--- Park Kwang-Il (South Korea), Bojan Djordjic (Sweden), Bruno Augusto Pelissari de Lima (Bra), Cristian Hidalgo González (Spn), Edgar Carvalho Figueira Marcelino (Por), Francisco Javier Fernández Luque (Spn), Gustavo Marmentini dos Santos (Bra), Víctor Herrero Forcada (Spn), Jan Štohanzl (Czech), Omar Andres Rodriguez Martinez (Col), Saïdou Mady Panandetiguiri (Burkina Faso), Bruno Herrero Arias (Spn), Bruno Filipe Tavares Pinheiro (Por), Guilherme Felipe de Castro (Bra), Pavel Eliáš (Czech), Jakub Podaný (Czech), Jofre Mateu González (Spn), Do Dong-Hyun (S Kor).

Strikers--- Arnal Llibert Conde Carbó (Spn), Diego Fernando Nadaya (Arg), Eduardo Silva Lerma (Spn), Iván Bolado Palacios (Spn), Michael Chopra (England), Luis Alfredo Yánes Padilla (Col), Miguel Bruno Pereira Herlein (Por), Miroslav Slepička (Czech), Pedro Adriano Veloso Gusmão (Bra) and Iain Hume (Canada

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