Robi Hansda is not yet sure when Mohammedan Sporting will start preparations for the Super Cup. Like the team’s other footballers, he is also not sure when his dues will be cleared. Still, the 26-year-old striker who surpassed the legendary Mohammed Habib, scoring 12 goals in the Santosh Trophy last season, is not sitting idle.
He has been continuing his hard work for hours under the observation of his first coach at Mosharu village, Muthraj Seren. “I have been doing everything: running, practicing shooting, heading, and doing fitness training, and it goes on for hours every day. He was my first coach when I started playing football in my village. Today also, his guidance is helping me a lot to maintain the training,” Robi said on Tuesday while attending the ‘Bar Pujo’ festival at Calcutta Customs.
He also revealed his realization adding, “Playing in the ISL has taught me to improve physical strength and ball-technique also, especially against the foreign defenders.”
He also expressed thankfulness to Biswajit Bhattacharya and Sanjoy Sen on the occasion. “I learned a lot of basics of the game from Biswajit sir. Later, under the tutelage of Sanjoy Sen in the Bengal team my learning process became more intense. Sanjoy sir is methodical, disciplined and also very encouraging.”
The striker could play in the ISL wearing Black-and-White shirts for only 153 minutes in total. But Kolkata’s football fraternity still remembers the only goal he struck and his one crucial assist that helped his team earn a goal.
Even, Robi does not regret refusing the offer he got from Kolkata’s other ISL team before joining Mohammedan Sporting. He retorted, “Not at all, I wanted to play in the ISL. It might be little, still I have earned some recognition and overall learned how to improve and earn the competence to perform in the League.”
Robi Hansda has taken another significant step following the professional footballers. He has signed a two-year contract with a professional agent after joining Mohammedan Sporting. A city-based football management company that looks after Robi’s football affairs especially, the transfer matters.
The striker whose contract with Mohammedan Sporting is set to expire next month, now awaits for Super Cup and dreams of representing India in the future.
