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About LEICESTER CITY FC
Leicester City Football Club: is one of the oldest community based clubs in UK. In the year 2003 a Gary Linekar led consortium bought over the club's administration and now it is in stable hands while Manager Micky Adams creates miracles on the field. Micky gave the Fox supporters the call - KEEP THE FAITH that has been very popular and has kept the club going great guns. After all faith and handwork are the only things that makes miracles happen for East Bengal as well. Just click on the Fox's logo on our site and find out more about them from their site.

Gary Linekar is undoubtedly Leicester's favourite footballing son. His predatory instincts and his natural modesty marked him as something out of the ordinary while his goals helped City. Gary was leading scorer for Leicester for four successive years and won seven England caps before becoming City's first £1 m export when moving to Everton in 1985. Became leading marksman in the 1986 World Cup finals and continued to strike international goals with amazing regularity to finish his career tantalizingly one goal short of Bobby Charlton's England record. Gary now enjoys a successful career with the media, and put his name to the Linekar Consortium which took over the club in February 2003. Gary is now one of 40 shareholders in Leicester City Football Club Plc.

Filbert Fox is the very cuddly and very famous LCFC mascot. Infact all players and their supporters are called The Foxes. Mr. Filbert Fox never misses a first team game and is involved in school activities and charities. He is an ambassador of Leicester City FC and its community activities. Walker Stadium: The club has moved just a few 100 meters from its historic home Filbert Street to the site of a former power station on the banks of the River Soar - there stands a stunning and futuristic collaboration of steel and glass that dominates the skyline of Leicester - The Walker Stadium. The City now fill their 32500 seater bowl shaped stadium every matchday. In addition the stadium has inbuilt facilities like conference and banqueting suits, offices, turnstiles, kiosks, the City Megastore, the ticket office, bars and restaurants that allows the stadium to address City's revenue requirements. LCFC Walkers Academy: Leicester City's youth development programme has long been producing great footballing talents. Peter Shilton, Gary Linekar and more recently Matthew Piper and Jordan Stewart are all products of the Fox's youth set-up. Boys from age 8 to 19 receive specialist coaching from the academy. Youth Academy Director Jon Rudkin who was recently (March 2004) over in Kolkata to help the India U 17 side oversees the development of young potential.

PRESS RELEASE: INDIA
KINGFISHER EAST BENGAL & LEICESTER CITY FC 4th of February 2004: Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club and Leicester City Football Club are pleased to announce a three-year agreement that will see the Kingfisher East Bengal Club receive advice and technical support from the FA Premier League side in a number of areas including: Youth player development Coaching techniques and best practice Sports science; injury prevention and treatment Exhibition matches, tours and tournaments Franchising, sponsorship and merchandising rights Development of commercial revenue streams The objectives of the agreement are to : Foster friendship between the two Footballs Clubs, their supporters, and the cities of Leicester and Kolkata Work together to exploit mutually benifical commercial Opportunities Exchange knowledge in commercial and football matters Welcoming the agreement, unique in the history of Indian Football Kingfisher East Bengal Honorary Secretary Kalyan Majumdar stated that: "East Bengal Club has always played a pioneering role in the football history of India. During the last couple of years it has broken many barriers and explored successfully new horizons for the cause of Indian football that resulted in the coveted victory in the ASEAN LG CUP Championship. In keeping with the same tradition East Bengal Club, is now venturing into a new era of international cooperation for the growth and development of football in this part of the globe. For the first time an Indian Club - East Bengal, champions of India, oo will have close cooperation with Leicester City, an English FA Premier League Football Club, in areas such as youth player development, development of coaching techniques and commercial revenue streams, franchising and sponsorship etc. We are extremely happy and are thrilled to be associated with Leicester City and confident that with this Indian football will enter into a new epoch of unlimited possibilities. We look forward to the all out support, help and guidance of all concerned, including that of the ever-vigilant media." Honorary Football Secretary, Santosh Bhattacharjee, felt that the partnership between Kingfisher East Bengal and Leicester City could be a watershed for football in India: "It is a proud moment for Indian football - the association between East Bengal Club and Leicester City will herald a new era in the development of football in this nation and I am sure that the sport will now leap forward at a speed hitherto unknown." Amit Sen, director of Kingfisher East Bengal, echoed these sentiments saying:" This unique association will certainly help in accelerating the process of professionalism that Kingfisher East Bengal is striving to reach in the overall interests of soccer in India." Paul Mace, Director and Chief Operating Officer of Leicester City explained why the English giants had decided to invest their experience and expertise in Indian football: "Leicester city has always had a strong community focus. As a substantial proportion of the local population of Leicester is Indian we know that football in India is very important to them. With this in mind we welcomed the approach from FMMI to establish a partnership with an Indian club. We are proud to have this agreement with Kingfisher East Bengal Club, the champions of the National League and a football club with a great tradition. We very much look forward to working with them, with Kingfisher and FMMI , to help the club and football in Kolkata to develop and prosper. We also trust that through football the people of Kolkata and Leicester will enjoy a closer relationship." FMMInternational is the sole and exclusive agent responsible for managing and marketing all aspects of the agreement between Kingfisher East Bengal and Leicester City. FMMI CEO Nigel Empson: "We have been working on this project for some considerable time. Leicester City have been thoroughly professional in researching the opportunity and their decision to partner with Kingfisher East Bengal brings two great clubs together. Kingfisher East Bengal are a club of undoubted potential in Asian teams having a tremendous pedigree in relation to Indian football and having recently won the LG Asean Cup. Being able to draw on the expertise and experience of a club the size of Leicester City, with the capabilities that that club has, will be of enormous benefit and provide a platform to accelerate the pace of progress, it is beyond question that this is a historic moment in the history of Indian football."

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