USFC to take on Australian A-League team and Lajong in NE Lajong Super Series

GANGTOK, 12 Aug: United Sikkim Football Club will complete a promising three-cornered contest being jointly organised by Shillong Lajong FC and JPR Events, in association with All Manipur Football Association, Assam Football Association and Meghalaya Football Association. “The North East Lajong Super Series”, to be played from 24 August to 01 September will feature, for the first time in the history of Indian football, a top Australian A-League club, Wellington Phoenix. The tournament will be played at venues in Shillong, Imphal and Guwahati. The third team in the series – Lajong FC.
Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional club from New Zealand which plays in Australia’s premier professional football competition, the A-League. In the 2011-12 season, it finished in the top four of the League table, and the team will be lea by the Kiwi 2010 FIFA World Cup and club coach Ricki Herbert.
The team also boasts of four World Cup players, who represented New Zealand in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where they did not lose a single game. These include-Tony Lochhead,Benjamin Sigmund,Leo Bertos,and Jeremy Brockie.
The tournament will be played in a round robin format where in all the three teams will go head to head and the top two teams will play in the final which is slated to be held in Shillong on 01 September.
The tourney begins with USFC taking on Wellington Phoenix on 24 August in Guwahati.