Kolkata, India June 4: City football giant East Bengal on Wednesday named defender Suley Musah of Ghana as the skipper for the coming season and announced a grand felicitation programme for the players on June 12 to honour their winning performance in the seventh National Football League.

Musah, who has been serving the East Bengal defence for about five years, would have medio Dipankar Roy as his deputy, football secretary Santosh Bhattacharjee said here. The club, he said, has also planned to organise a grand felicitation on June 12 for the NFL winners who have achieved a historic feat of winning all the five tournaments they took part last year.

The red and yellow brigade had also culled a record 49 points and scored maximum number of 44 goals in the national league.

Football star of yesteryears Amed Khan, who played for the club during the 1950s, would be invited at the felicitation programme, he said.