U Mumba Focus On Building Strength: Pro Kabaddi League Season 5
With the introduction of four new teams - Gujarat Fortune Giants, Haryana Steelers, UP Yoddhas and Tamil Thalaivas, The fifth season of pro kabaddi league promises to be bigger and better than ever. In this season total 138 matches are going to be played over a period of 3 months.
With the increasing fan following, the league scaling new heights with each passing season. While its going to be a tough job for the organiser to keep audiences engaged over a period of 90 days, it will also be an difficult task for players to maintain their fitness level for the entire tournament of pro kabaddi league.
To cope up with the pressure of high intensity games and travelling, U Mumba is the team who is trying to take fitness of its player on prior basis. The team for now are just concentrating on building necessary strength to get prepared for such a long tournament and are currently training for the same in Dehradun near to Indian military camp.
“For the past 20 days, we’ve been in Dehradun, doing just strength-building training. We haven’t stepped on the mat. Fitness is one area that we’re focusing on right now,” captain Anup Kumar said.
With the debut of four new teams, a lot of interchanging in existing teams has taken place. Although that has made a lot of opportunity for the youngsters in this season of pro kabaddi league.
“Mostly all teams have changes. We’ve lots of youngsters coming in, and some experienced players going out. It’ll be exciting to see how the teams and players react to this change. It’s going to take us some time to figure out strategies against opposition.”
“The only area of concern could be defence. But having said that, we’ve a team that can surprise any opposition. So we’re not worried about that,” Anup concluded when asked about the defense stratergy of the team.
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