guwahati a new feather will be added to india captain baichung bhutias crown when the club he coowns united sikkim fc begin their sojourn in the second division ileague with a match against langsing sports club of shillong on thursday bhutias name itself generates a lot of interest and his donning a new hat has created ripples in the footballing circles in a freewheeling chat with the toi after a practice session on wednesday bhutia spoke about his club in particular and indian football in general you will begin a new innings as a football entrepreneur how do you feel and how different is it from you going out as a player im excited and looking forward to it eagerly as this will be realization of a longcherished dream weve been able to put together a decent team and had good onemonth training and thus i am hoping for the best the frustrating part is that im unlikely to play in this match due to injury but ill surely play once fit however i can say the feeling is different from the one as a player as the responsibility on my shoulders now is much more as a player i have to go out and play for a win but now ive to put in everything for the team from the teambuilding to the finances and every other requirement while most players tend to go for coaching why did you always have this dream of owning a club it is nice to have ones own club as then im in a position to give the best to my players and that is most important coaching is just training a side as a coach or as a player you can only demand good facilities but now i can actually give them that i made sure the team flies down here from kolkata even though the aiff provides only the train fare and have provided them with the best accommodation that was possible on our behalf this motivates the players to go out and give the best we dont make money out of clubs in india so i am lucky to have coowners who have supported me well ive the ambition of taking this club far and making it a model club in the country but having said that i also want to take up coaching and even now i get involved sometimes however i dont want to restrict myself to only that indian football is brimming with players from the northeast but we have not seen any club from the region dominating the game in the country the problem with the clubs here is that they are not able to hold on to the good players as there are very few tournaments held here and thus they dont get to play many matches no player would like that and its also futile for the clubs to pay them well when they are not playing so much the need of the