Sabooj Maroon Swapna
SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO (also spelt as 'SABOOJ MAROON SWAPNA') ( formerly known as "Green and Maroon" ) is a fan club of Mohun Bagan AC (Kolkata). In English it means Green Maroon Dream ( The jersey colour of Mohun Bagan is green and maroon).The aim of this organisation is to fullfill the dream of the members regarding the wellbeing of the great football club, the NATIONAL CLUB of India MOHUN BAGAN.
History
MOHUN BAGAN is the the most popular and famous club of Kolkata as well as in India. Right from the beginning there is a large fan base of this club. In 2007 some MOHUN BAGAN lovers built a community related to MOHUN BAGAN in Orkut and shared their views regarding the wellbeing of MOHUN BAGAN.Then they decided to convert this online community into a real life organisation and created an organisation named Green and Maroon which is now known as SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO.
Office
The address of the registered office of SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO is -
274, Diamond Harbour Road,
Behala, Kolkata,
West Bengal,
India.
Pin-700034
Member
At present there are more than 150 members of SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO and the popularity of this organisation is increasing day by day.The current president and vice president are Mr. Partha Roy and Mr. Arindam Banerjee respectively and the current secretary is Mr. Sanmit Sarkar.
Activities
This organisation has not been created only to cheer up MOHUN BAGAN football team in matches but also to do something which will be beneficial for the club and also to the members and supporters of this club.A number of activities by this organisation.They have welcomed the chief coach of the MOHUN BAGAN football team Mr. Carlos Alberto Pahira on 7th July,2007 and presented a lobstar made of sweet,a bouquet of flower and a football ground shape cake.On the same day they also honoured Mr. Satyajit Chatterjee,the ex-footballer and presently the assistant coach of the football team.They also gifted rose to every footballer and wished best of luck for the season.
They have also organised a programme on 15th August to renovate the marble plaques situated in the north Kolkata region related to the great history of MOHUN BAGAN.On that day the total north Kolkata region was flooded with green and maroon colour.Mr. Pranab Ganguly and Mr. Shyamal Banerjee,the two ex footballers of MOHUN BAGAN club and Mr. Gitanath Ganguly,the renowned lawyer of Kolkata High Court and also the executive committee members of MOHUN BAGAN and Mr.Debkumar Chatterjee who is also a member of MOHUN BAGAN executive committee were present as guests of that programme.They were taken to the places on a well decorated pheaton and all the members of SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO were there infront of the rally wearing the jersy,holding the scarfs of the organisation.On that day they also celebrated the independance day and also paid honour to the 1911 IFA Shield winning team and 1947 IFA Shield winninfg team.
They have also celebrated the birthday of the present MOHUN BAGAN footballers.They have already celebrated the birthday of promising midfielder Suman Dutta,national team defender Sanjeev Maria,another national team defender Deepak Mondal and last but not the least the popular brasilian striker "sabuj tota" Jose Ramirez Barreto.
They have also honoured the exfootballer and olympian Mr.Krishna Chandra Paul popularly known as Kesto Paul-the goal machine of MOHUN BAGAN during The 50's on 2nd October,2007.They have also given a honourary membership of their organisation to Mr. Kesto Paul.
This organisation also presented some new clothes as puja gifts to the grounds men of the club on 6th October,2007.Puja gifts were also provided to the canteen staffs.
SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO also have showed some activities for the members of this organisation.During Federation cup "sms alert"s were provided to all the members of this organisation after every 30 minutes of the match.They also arranged a "giant screen" presenttation of the derby match at Ludhiana against arch rival East Bengal in the Federation Cup semi final in the club premises for all the members and supporters of MOHUN BAGAN club.
SABUJ MAROON SWAPNO is the only fan club in India which has members out side India.Mr. Norman Hindson who is a psychiatrist in profession and came to India as the representative of The Famous English Premier League club Liverpool F.C. has taken the membership of this organisation.
This organisation has taken the responsibility of the nursery football team ofMOHUN BAGAN.They are trying to do something best for this team as much as they can,and their aim is to make this team the champion in the coming league.They are trying to attend every practice session of this team and to cheer up the kid stars.