Cardiff City’s Rohan Luthra to join Slough Town on loan | Nilesh Chauhan replaces Anwar Uddin as Fans for Diversity chief | Football News

England youth goalkeeper Rohan Luthra is about for a mortgage transfer to Slough City, Sky Sports activities Information can reveal.

Luthra will signal for Slough City on mortgage for the remainder of the season, topic to clearance.

The stopper is highly-rated by the Bluebirds and is anticipated to coach each at Slough City and at Cardiff throughout the course of the season.

Sky Sports News exclusively revealed back in June 2021 that Luthra was leaving Crystal Palace after a decade on the south London membership, earlier than breaking the news the goalkeeper was on his way to Cardiff the place he would change into the primary British South Asian to signal for the group since Michael Chopra greater than a decade earlier.

The emergence of 6ft 5in Punjabi goalkeeper Luthra supplied one of many few vivid spots for Bluebirds followers final season, with Cardiff sneaking into twenty first place after enduring an underwhelming marketing campaign.

Luthra got here off the bench within the latter phases of Cardiff’s loss away at Preston in March, becoming the first goalkeeper to come out of Britain’s South Asian community to play in the Sky Bet Championship.

Chopra: A brilliant moment

Former Newcastle and Sunderland striker Chopra, who scored 63 objectives in 159 appearances for Cardiff, stated Luthra is now an inspiration for the following technology of footballers from South Asian backgrounds.

“It was an excellent second for the South Asian group when Rohan got here on for Cardiff,” Chopra informed Sky Sports activities Information.

“Typically you solely get one likelihood in life and that’s very true within the soccer world. Typically you solely get one likelihood to make your mark, and if you cannot, folks usually look elsewhere, particularly with the amount of cash that is concerned in soccer now.

“I used to be very completely satisfied to see him get the chance, and now everybody desires to see him kick on and construct on that.

“It is nice what he’s doing. It is nice that individuals can really look as much as him now, particularly different South Asian heritage goalkeepers. He is proved that it may be accomplished and that South Asians can do it in the event that they get the chance.”

A multi-talented sportsman, Luthra earned a double-scholarship to attend Croydon’s well-known Whitgift College, whose former pupils embrace England batsman Jason Roy and rugby union gamers Elliot Daly, Danny Cipriani and Marland Yarde.

Luthra, 21, grew to become an English County Colleges champion with Whitgift and spent two years taking part in in the identical group as Chelsea and England winger Callum Hudson-Odoi.

The pair gained back-to-back nationwide Unbiased Colleges Soccer Affiliation Cups collectively, with Luthra retaining a clear sheet and Hudson-Odoi scoring a hat-trick in a 3-0 win within the 2014 closing.

Chauhan replaces Uddin as Followers for Range chief

Anti-discrimination in soccer campaigner Nilesh Chauhan has changed Anwar Uddin MBE as chief of the Followers for Range marketing campaign after the story was broken exclusively by Sky Sports News.

Sky Sports News revealed earlier this year that Uddin, who is the mastermind behind Fans for Diversity, was leaving his role with the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) to try and supercharge the Football Association’s efforts to make football for all.

Chauhan has labored intently with the Followers for Range marketing campaign – which is a jointly-funded initiative led by the Soccer Supporters’ Affiliation and Kick It Out selling range and inclusion in soccer – for a number of years.

Chauhan, who’s co-founder of award-winning supporters’ group Villans Collectively, spoke to Sky Sports News in June after former England youth captain and ex-Aston Villa defender Easah Suliman made a triumphant debut for Pakistan.

He informed Sky Sports activities Information: “Easah was any person extraordinarily popular with everyone at Aston Villa – an excellent position mannequin and ambassador for the membership and somebody who was all the time very beneficiant along with his time.

“It is nice to see him nonetheless progressing and getting alternatives. After captaining England juniors and successful a trophy, to now go on and play for Pakistan is the stuff that desires are manufactured from actually.

“However Easah has by no means stopped. He has earned the prospect to play on the worldwide stage and seeing that’s so invaluable for any South Asian teen with aspirations and seeking to get into the sport.”

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