India’s first franchise-based professional football team Atlético de Kolkata, birth of which was announced exactly a month ago to participate in the Indian Super League, on Monday declared Antonio Lopez Habas as its coach. Spanish footballer Luis Garcia, has been chosen as the team’s 'star player'. The club also unveiled its team jersey together with the official logo. The club is the first international franchise of the Spanish club Atlético de Madrid. Atlético de Kolkata is run by the corporate entity Kolkata Games & Sports Pvt Ltd. Apart from Atlético, former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, Chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group Harsh Neotia, Chairman RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Sanjiv Goenka and Chairman of SMIFS Capital Markets Utshav Parekh are the promoters of the new entity. At an event here in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the club also launched its official Facebook fan page and other social media platforms.The Team Jersey was Also Unvieled. The West Bengal Government would support Atlético de Kolkata in developing the right infrastructure of international standards, the Chief Minister has promised. ( Content Courtesy : HinduBusinessLine/ Pics Courtesy : PTI )
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The Atlético de Kolkata logo symbolizes power, magnificence and fierceness of the Royal Bengal Tiger. The Tiger meets The Phoenix, a mythical creature that denotes perpetuity. The tiger's stripes in the logo, indicates that this is a team that has earned its stripes -- thanks to the pedigree and legacy inherited, first from Kolkata's long-standing association with football, and second, from the expertise brought in by Atlético de Madrid. The five stars that form a circle in tandem with the Tiger's wing-span represent the five owners of Atlético de Kolkata, namely Sanjiv Goenka, Sourav Ganguly, Harshavardhan Neotia, Utsav Parekh and Atlético de Madrid. While the use of a shield is keeping with classic football club identities, we've made ours streamlined; almost bullet-shaped, to remind our fans that we're future-thinking, forward-moving and relevant to today's game. In terms of colours, we've kept to a palette that honours our home jersey with its red and white stripes. Red's energy, danger, strength, power, determination is tempered with a touch of blue- which brings in stability, trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence and faith. The yellow-gold, reserved for the winged-tiger and the five stars, reinforces the sense of royalty, majesty and illustriousness that is part and parcel of Atlético de Kolkata's identity.
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