MUMBAI, April 15: Air-India, fifth in the Second Philips National Football League and Western India Football Association Super Division League champions, have lost three important players.International defender Jeevan Moras, influential mid-fielder Khenthang Paite and striker P J Jose, have left the side that finished the first leg of NFL undefeated.While Moras and Paite have joined Calcutta's Mohun Bagan, Jose has gone back to his former club Mahindras.Air-India are likely to rope in six new players. They have so far signed on Ratan Singh from Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF), who was formerly with Salgaocar, Goa.Mahindras, now relegated to the second division of National League along with Goa's Churchill Brothers, have lost six players to the newly formed Bengal Mumbai Football Club (BMFC). Defenders Rahmetullah Khan, Sanjay Dayal, Nigerean Oneyka Okafor, mid-fielder Abhay Kumar, forward Herbert Philip and goalkeeper Gumpe Rime are to join Mumbai's first professional club.Mahindras,who have procured the services of former international player and referee P Hakkim from Hyderabad as coach, are also understood to have signed on defender Naushad Moosa, strikers Shamshi Reza and Manjit Singh (all from East Bengal) along with medio Shanta Kumar and goalkeeper Salim Ansari (both from Dempo SC).
