'I am confident that our side can do well in the upcoming I-League. We have Savio Medeira who is one of the top coaches in India incharge, a team which has an excellent blend of youth and experience, and a President who leaves no stone unturned in making the best facilities available to the team.'

'If you look around in the dressing room, you will see the passion to wear the green and white and the hunger to win. Its this that I am banking on to see the team finish in the top half of the I-League.'

When questioned as to critics and media labelling the team as "relegation battlers"? 'Its good to be going in as underdogs, the pressure wouldn't be as much on us as on our opponents. And anyways, you don't win matches on paper, you win them on the field' he quipped.