Bengaluru FC announced on Monday that Sarthak Golui, a promising Indian defender, has signed a two-year contract with the club. After Yrondu Musavu-King, Alan Costa, and Rohit Kumar, the 23-year-old becomes the Blues fourth summer signing and will join the squad ahead of the next AFC Cup quarterfinal stage match against Eagles FC.<\/p>\n
Golui, a Kolkata-born, came up through the ranks of the AIFF Elite Academy and has played for clubs in the I-League and Indian Super League.<\/p>\n
Before his arrival to Bengaluru, Golui had 49 caps in the ISL with FC Pune City, Mumbai City FC, and SC East Bengal. Sarthak Golui had a strong debut season in the Hero ISL with FC Pune City in 2017-18, scoring a goal and three assists in 15 games during the Stallions\u2019 journey to the semi-finals. Despite Pune\u2019s struggles in the 2018-19 season, the defender put in a good performance, scoring two assists in 12 games. Sarthak, a speedy defender with good crossing skills, was one of Mumbai City FC\u2019s finest defenders in the 2019-20 season, registering 113 clearances and 46 tackles while also scoring once. During the Hero ISL 2020-21 January transfer window, he joined SC East Bengal.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be part of a club that has been so successful brings with it a huge responsibility, and I hope I can fulfil all the expectations the club and its fans have from me,\u201d Sarthak said after signing his contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis move will also give me a chance to learn from experienced players like Sunil bhai and Gurpreet bhai, and I am looking forward to meeting all my teammates soon.\u201d he further said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe is a versatile player who can fill in at both right-back and centre-back positions,\u201d coach Marco Przzaiuoli said of the club\u2019s latest addition.<\/p>\n Golui made his senior national team debut against Sri Lanka at the 2018 SAFF Championship in Bangladesh, having previously represented India at the U-16 and U-19 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Golui has 49 caps in the ISL, having played for FC Pune City, Mumbai City FC, and SC East Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":33059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1046,654,389,127],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bengaluru-fc","tag-isl","tag-sports","tag-sunil-chhetri"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}