Virat Kohli and different RCB stars performed a soccer match, which occurs to be a workforce custom.© Instagram
Virat Kohli’s love for soccer is well-known. The India and Royal Challengers Bangalore captain has been seen on quite a few events swapping his cricket bat for soccer boots. A few days again, RCB had shared a picture of Kohli playing football with his teammates, captioning it, “We heard Messi was looking for some new teammates”. Whereas Kohli could be gentle years away from Lionel Messi’s extraordinary footballing abilities, he is no muck with the ball at his toes. On Tuesday, the RCB Twitter deal with posted a video of the workforce’s stars taking part in a “modified soccer” match, which noticed Kohli being pitted towards AB de Villiers.
“Kicking off the IPL season with a soccer match has been a practice at RCB for a few years. It was all smiles within the camp when AB’s Cool Cats took on Virat’s Sizzling Canines,” RCB captioned the video.
Within the video, RCB’s Energy and Conditioning coach Shanker Basu reveals that taking part in soccer on the inaugural day when the total squad comes out collectively is an RCB custom.
Basu mentioned that the sport was a “modified soccer” match the place there isn’t any goalkeeper. Nevertheless, the RCB coach made his dislike for cricketers taking part in soccer amply clear.
“Let me placed on document, I hate soccer for cricketers. It is extremely injurious, I can solely see threat and do not see any reward,” mentioned Basu.
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Kicking off the IPL season with a soccer match has been a practice at RCB for a few years. It was all smiles within the camp when AB’s Cool Cats took on Virat’s Sizzling Canines.#PlayBold #IPL2020 #WeAreChallengers #Football pic.twitter.com/W8F8vmVocw
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) September 8, 2020
RCB can be seeking to break their IPL trophy jinx this 12 months. They’ve completed runners-up twice however have by no means been capable of get their arms on the trophy. Kohli and his teammates will raring to go and put the document straight.
The Bangalore franchise get their IPL 2020 marketing campaign underway on September 21 with a tough fixture towards SunRisers Hyderabad on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium.
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