After ICL, Mithun associates with soccer !

Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty`s Indian Cricket League (ICL) team Royal Bengal Tigers on Wednesday inked a five-year sponsorship agreement with Kolkata`s first division soccer club Howrah Union. As per the deal, to be effective from 2009-10 football season, the Royal Bengal Tigers would help the Howrah Union for infrastructure building, player recruitment and training facilities. "The alliance between my team and Howrah Union Club is one of its kind initiative, which aims to take Bengal`s local sports talent, across sporting disciplines, on the path of creating national sports icons from Bengal," Mithun said. "I could have adopted some leading club, but I did not do it as I wanted to build a team from scratch and carry it to a glorious height," he said. A separate company called the Royal Bengal Sports Pvt. Ltd. has also... [read full story]