Blue Tigers join hands in India's fight against Covid-19
NEW DELHI: With Covid19
Corona virus creating havoc, several members of the Blue Tigers have come
forward to lend a helping hand by contributing for the social cause.
“As an Indian it's my
responsibility to lend a hand to the cause in whatever possible manner I
can," defender Pritam Kotal, who contributed INR 50,000/- to the West
Bengal Chief Minister's fund stated.
But there are others who are
trying to help in a different manner -- midfielder Pronoy Halder for example.
Halder who wore the captain's armband against Bahrain in the AFC Asian Cup UAE
2019 has taken up the responsibility of providing food to some underprivileged
kids who earn their bread on daily basis.
"There are a lot of
underprivileged kids at the Barrackpore Mangal Pandey Football Coaching Camp
who earn on a daily basis. The situation is a bit difficult now. So I am
helping procure food, or food items for them to come out of the crisis,"
Halder mentioned.
“I know that there are also
many who stay around the Barrackpore Railway Station and they are struggling
for food. So me along with some of my friends are distributing basic food items
to the station-dwellers, and others who stay outside."
In addition, the midfielder
has also donated INR 20,000/- to the CM relief fund.
Pritam Kotal, Pronay Halder,
Prabir Das, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Players for Humanity
Fellow club mate, Prabir
Das, who was summoned by the National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac for the
preparatory camp before the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China
2023 joint qualifiers round 2 match against Qatar on March 26, 2020 has also
joined hands.
"We understand that we
need to stand together to fight against this. We have tried to make small
contributions to the fund initiated by our Chief Minister. Hope we see the
light at the end of the tunnel soon," Das, who has contributed INR
50,000/- expressed.
Arindam Bhattacharjee, the
seasoned goalkeeper, whose standout performance in the Hero Indian Super League
2019-20 helped ATK win the coveted trophy recently has also donated INR
25,000/- to the fund.
Meanwhile, 'Players for
Humanity' - the philanthropic organisation formed by the former players like
Mehtab Hossain, Rahim Nabi, Denson Devadas, Sandip Nandy, Debabrata Roy and
others along with current players like Pritam Kotal, Pronay Halder, Arindam Bhattacharjee,
Prabir Das, Souvik Chakraborty, Debjit Majumder and many more have also
initiated talks to stand together and help during this challenging phase.