The 36-year-old, Florent is the former midfielder of the big club Chelsea and his experience will definitely come into play. This forced the owners of the Delhi Dynamos to retain the French-based footballer as the marquee player for ISL 2016. It was simply because of Florent Malouda, that Delhi qualified fro the semi. The big names have impressed everyone with his brilliant tactics in the last edition for ISL. The footballer critics rate Jeje quite high when it comes to the playing in ISL. Jeje plays for Chennaiyin FC and he was the reason behind the success of this team in last year. The success of this Mizoram born striker is same in ISL, with being the second highest goalscorer in the history of ISL. He is one of the star players of Indian football team with his contribution in every single match. Although, the 25-year-old, Jeje Lalpekhlua has made his name with his hard work and determination and is one of the best Asian footballers.
It’s often not seen when one includes Indian Footballer’s name in the list of best footballers in any tournament. The international career of Apoula was not promising while playing for Armenia between 20. The rise of Apoula is been terrific and there is no doubt that, he will be in top ten footballers in 2016 edition of ISL. In 2015, Cameroonian born-Armenian based footballer won the golden gloves for the champions team, Chennaiyin FC. Apoula began his ISL career with the Atletico de Kolkata in 2014, which won the inaugural edition of ISL. The 30-year-old, Apoula Edel is not about the best goalkeeper in the ISL championship in all season.
Chhangte arguably had the best chance of the night when he beat Akash Mishra on the run, cut in and shot hard, only to be tipped off by Kaith.Top 10 Best ISL Footballers Apoula Edel (FC Pune City) Mirlan Murzaev and Lallianzuala Chhangte proved hard to contain.
Kyrgyz playmaker Mirlan Murzaev almost gave Chennaiyin a glimmer of hope late in the first half, but his header went off-target from a darting cross by Reagan Singh.Ĭhennaiyin carried over the momentum post the break. Ogbeche missed more than handy chances but substitute Nikhil Poojary's work-rate near the box only gained him new admirers. Hyderabad were in fact wasteful in the opportunities the brittle Chennaiyin defence gave them. The Himachal Pradesh-born was tested a few times but he emerged unscathed. That did not deter their resolve to stamp their impression as former ATK Mohun Bagan man Edu Garcia's shot was cleared away in a hurry but Bartholomew Ogbeche could not follow through.Ĭhennaiyin had goalkeeper Vishal Kaith to thank for keeping the former champions in the game. Hyderabad, whose average age of the Indian players in the lineup was just 24, was dealt a major blow early on with Halicharan Narzary limping off in under 10 minutes. Vlagyimir Koman (66th minute) scored from the spot to give Chennaiyin a crucial lead, eventually sealing all three points as Hyderabad were left to rue their wastefulness in front of goal, especially in the first half. Chennaiyin FC pulled off a hard-fought 1-0 win over Hyderabad FC in their opening match of the Indian Super League on Tuesday.