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Undoubtedly,
Sikkim has been producing talents in the field of football and the
word Sikkim and Football are synonymous to each other, to the people
of our country by virtue of players like the Late Pem Dorjee Bhutia
who captained the Indian national
football team in the pre-Olympic tournament held in 1982 at
Malaysia. He was among the first few player from the Sikkim to have
got chance to play in club football at Calcutta when he played for
Mohammedan Sporting Club in the 80s followed by Bhaichung
Bhutia whose contribution to Indian football is indescribable.
However, in the past, few ones who are fortunate enough to have good
backings are capable of getting chance to play with the top clubs
like Mohan Bagan, East Bengal, ONGC, Air India etc. of our country.
Sikkim has been blessed with many such talented players who are
deprived of timely exposure and proper training that would fetch
them opportunities to play in the mainstream league of India.
This
prevailing fact is apparently driving away the interest of the youth
from this game in the state where football has been celebrated in
every nook and corner. It also has been observed that people’s
interest towards football is declining at an alarming rate in our
state.
Realizing the need to revive an interest in the football game and
inflict awareness to the youth of our state we the Denzong Boyz
Football Club (DBFC) a wing of Denzong Welfare Association, has been
formed in the year 2008 with a clear and simple motive to promote
our local talents by training them and giving exposures in the field
of Football and produce many more Bhaichung’s for our Country.
The
word Denzong means the valley of Rice in one of the Sikkimese
language and Sikkim is also called Denzong by the Bhutia tribe of
Sikkim
We
the Denzong Boyz Football club consists of a bunch of football
lovers who are professionally Engineers, Doctors, Social workers,
sports trainers, school teachers etc. We make our club active by
self contributions and sponsorships we get from small companies here
and there.
Our
goal is to make our club play India’s top league i.e. ONGC I league
and groom local talents to represent our country in the years to
come, for which we highly solicit sponsors, endorsements from
generous institutions without which our dream might not be
fulfilled.
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