Mumbai: Since fulfilling his dream of continuing to manage a football club, the first time he revealed in the English essay he wrote in Standard 5, Joshua Lewis had to bear the fairness of the fairness as Director of the Kenkre Football Club.
That is why, a few months ago, when Kenkre FC was very lost in the top position in the qualification of the I-League hero to Rajasthan United after a goalless draw between the two on the last day of the Bengaluru, Lewis took a setback, Lewis took a setback, Lewis took a setback , The latest in a number of efforts failed to cover the doors what was the top of Indian football, in his steps.
And later conveying the early Christmas gift 10 days ago when the Indian Football Federation League (AIFF) committee submitted Kenkre Place in the upcoming I-League edition at the expense of City Chennai, which was prohibited to compete after failing to fulfill most of the AIFF Club compulsory license regulations.
“City Chennai is actually a former champion but things don’t work for them.
Time is like that when everything can be very challenging.
Basically it’s surprising,” said Lewis 39 years to Ti.
Anyone who is familiar with 21 years of Kenkre climbing the Indian football stairs will not have difficulty appreciating what represents this opportunity for them, and indeed, this city given that the 2016-17 season was the last I-League campaign to showcase Mumbai club when Mumbai FC is now It’s dead.
This, however, was Lewis’s club, when he was only 18 years old, together to establish together with his former coach at Don Bosco High School, Matunga, Adib Kenkre, with the main purpose of ensuring young talented players did not give up football and could continue playing as a group.
To maintain the initiative, the player himself will contribute RS 100 which, Lewis said, will go to the post-training snack or by train for any player who cannot afford it.
Demands, of course, began to grow so Kenkre developed through the Mumbai District Football Association League division.
“When we moved to the Elite division, we realized that we needed better players to support ourselves, and we had to give them money because at that time there was Mahindra, Mumbai FC, Air India, Ongc, all the big weapons,” Lewis said .
After witnessing the revival and death of the club like Mahindra United and Mumbai FC, Lewis knew every milestone in Kenkre’s journey carrying with the share of his own trap.
As a team trained by one of the products of Handrebr barrakan them in Akhil Kothari rises preparations for their I-League Maiden campaign, which will start in bio bubbles in Kolkata starting December 26, Lewis was assigned to the challenge of raising funds for Rs 1.5 crore According to him, it will be needed to pass this season.
“The resources we produce at this time are not enough to support the Ileague team but we are on the market that looks out for sponsors,” he said, adding: “The trip in front will not be easy.
It will take advantage of many things.
Finance will be a problem.
The standard set will be much higher.
The most important thing is to continue, and to keep the fire fighting at each point until we have sufficient support in terms of good sponsors, greater corporate support etc.
But I am sure that people – Mumbai and Maharashtra people will not disappoint us.
“For the boy who dreamed of managing his own club when he was only 11, if there was one art Lewis had mastered throughout his travel inspiring with Kenkre FC, it was going to walk!
Lewis finally saw his dream come to produce results with Kenkre on I-League
