Internet Desk: Just when the Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan started to put pressure on The AIFF and IMG-R, I-League franchise Bengaluru FC have accepted the bid to play the Hero Indian Super League for the forthcoming season. In an interaction with www.xtratime.in , Bengaluru FC Chief Technical Officer Mandar Tamhane said, “Yes, we have picked up the bid. We will submit the bid shortly. Let’s see what happens.”
The Bengaluru FC CTO also said, “It’s not an overnight process. We need to prepare the documentation in the next 8-10 days. But as I mentioned, we have picked up the bid from the IMG-R.”
A day earlier, Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), organisers of the Indian Super League (ISL), stated that teams keen on being part of the league can pick up the tender document from May 12th onward.
The bidding companies need to meet the criterion mentioned in the ITB document and submit by 25th May. The ISL is a franchise-based competition which came into existence in 2013 and since then has gone on to capture the imagination of the country as it became the third most attended football league in the world.