BHUBANESWAR 17-Sep-2015
Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Lancers bought German midfielder Moritz Fuerste for a record price of USD 105,000 in the 2015 auction of Hockey India League, which took place at Hotel Lalit in New Delhi today. With this bid Moritz Fuerste becomes the highest player in Hockey India League. The purchase surpassed last year’s bid of USD 103000 made by Dabang Mumbai for star player Tom Boon.
Chief Mentor for Kalinga Lancers, Dilip Tirkey said: “Since the last 2 editions, Kalinga Lancers has not been performing well and this is why we came with the plan to buy the best possible players so that we can improve our performance in the upcoming editions. We had a prior planning before picking up the players and we chose them according to our pre-set team combination that we had in our mind.
