MUMBAI: Actor John Abraham, who owns Indian Super League club NorthEast United, has expressed interest in learning from Turkey’s clubs and players.
Players from the Assam-based club are currently in southern Turkey for pre-season training and Abraham met Antalya governor Munir Karaloglu. Abraham’s side, which came in fifth in the ISL’s last season, could forge better ties with Turkish football, he said.
“The league is very new… We are trying to do better. Hopefully Antalya is lucky for us and we do better this year,” he told Karaloglu on Monday.
“You have a very good team. Also, football reaches out to 260 million people [in India],” the Turkish American news publication quotes him as saying.
Abraham, who spent two months filming in Antalya last year, added, “I’m very happy to be back. I’m hoping to be the face of Antalya in India… I would like to promote sport and culture from India and come here and develop it out here.”
NorthEast United are due to play a friendly match with Super Lig side Alanyaspor on Thursday. The team arrived in Antalya last month and have been spotted playing football on the city’s beaches.
