“All the top Bayern stars will be there at the Salt Lake Stadium on May 27”

Oliver Kahn is all set to hang up his boot from the professional career against Bagan; over 120000 spectators will be there witnessing the event at salt lake stadium. The Kolkata based stadium namely salt lake stadium is the second largest soccer stadium in the world with Rungrado May Day Stadium in North Korea on first.. Home for three major soccer giants in India namely Mohun Bagan, Mohammedan Sporting and East Bengal, the stadium hosts some of the fierce local derbies between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal.

East Bengal represents Bengalis hailing from Eastern part of Bengal, but they also have several supporters hailing from Western part of Bengal. Mohun Bagan represents Ghotis generally belonging to people of Western part of Bengal and they also have some supporters hailing from Eastern part of Bengal. Mohammedan SC supporters of which are mainly from the Muslin section of the population.

With Kahn paving way for Rensing, the promising young goalkeeper who is impressive with his match performance and is all set to replace the aging Kahn. The likely keeper for Munich Rensing; injured Kahn with a ferocious hit while warming up thus making Kahn out with a blackened eye and coming up with a performance in that match, Bayern won 2-0 against Arminia Bielefeld .

Bayern featuring the likes of Mark van Bommel, Martin Demichelis, Lucio, Ze Roberto, Daniel van Buyten and Andreas Ottl alongside captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn will be a delight for Indian soccer fans as Mohun Bagan will take on the German giants. Munich were there in 2006 with there youthful second team under Gerd Muller and went ahead winning the IFA challenge shield; defeating Ever-Ready in the final with a score line of 5-1.

One interesting fact about Mohun Bagan and east Bengal rivalry is that; the local fish market price always rose when there is a clash between the two side as fans from both sides are fond of fish and sea food. With the progress of time both teams now have fans belonging to various communities and regions of India.

The rivalry is rated 7.4 on a scale of ten on localderbies .