KOLKATA: In August last year, the committee entrusted with the responsibility of building the Mohammedan Sporting team for the upcoming I-League, unexpectedly found itself in the middle of a paradigm shift.
The team was busy playing simultaneously in the Durand Cup and Calcutta Football Club at the time and coach Mehrajuddin Wadoo - who took charge of the black-and-white dugout barely six months ago, replacing more high-profile Kibu Vicuna - looked set for a longer rope. However, the club's Gurugram-based investor Bunkerhill made it clear that the team's Mission I-League must be led by a foreign coach. This paved the way for the return of Andrey Chernyshov, a season after the Russian was fired from the post in December 2022.
