All you need to know about the Indian Football Team set for FIFA qualifiers.

India Football Team all set for World Cup Qualifiers. Team India will resume their World Cup qualifiers against Qatar on June 3. Along with head coach Igor Stimac, 28 players, visited Doha on Wednesday

All players and staffs are tested negative for Coronavirus. All the players and staffs were in isolation in New Delhi under the bio-bubble at the team hotel from May 15th onwards. All the players had to carry their RTPCR tests conducted in the last 48hours.

Expectedly, star forward Sunil Chhetri, who missed India's last couple of friendlies in March due to a Coronavirus infection, is back in the team. 

FC Goa midfielder Glan Martins has been named in the Indian squad for the very first time while players like Subhasish Bose and Pronay Halder return to Stimac's team. ATK Mohun Bagan's Prabir Das and FC Goa's Seriton Fernandes miss out after testing positive for coronavirus. 

Players like Ashutosh Mehta, Rahul KP and Asish Rai miss out due to injuries. Stimac believes that it is not the “ideal situation” ahead of the June Qualifiers, but the Blue Tigers will be putting in “intense” sessions before their matches get underway.

“It’s not an ideal situation as we move ahead to the Qualifiers in June. Due to the pandemic, our national camp which was slated to begin in Kolkata at the beginning of May had to get cancelled. The pandemic also robbed us of a friendly match in Dubai,” the head coach stated.

India’s fixtures:
June 3: India vs Qatar (IST 10.30 PM).
June 7: Bangladesh vs India (IST 7.30 PM).
June 15: India vs Afghanistan (IST 7.30 PM).

India will be playing the qualifiers match with a 28-members squad and here is the list of the players' name:

GOALKEEPERS: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Amrinder Singh, Dheeraj Singh.

DEFENDERS: Pritam Kotal, Rahul Bheke, Narender Gehlot, Chinglensana Singh, Sandesh Jhingan, Adil Khan, Akash Mishra, Subhashish Bose.

MIDFIELDERS: Udanta Singh, Brandon Fernandes, Liston Colaco, Rowllin Borges, Glan Martins, Anirudh Thapa, Pronoy Halder, Suresh Singh, Lalengmawia Ralte, Abdul Sahal, Yasir Mohammad, Lallianzuala Chhangte, Bipin Singh, Ashique Kuruniyan.

FORWARDS: Ishan Pandita, Sunil Chhetri, Manvir Singh.