England youth goalkeeper Rohan Luthra is ready 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 through the course of the season.
Sky Sports activities Information solely revealed again in June 2021 that Luthra was leaving Crystal Palace after a decade on the south London membership, earlier than breaking the information the goalkeeper was on his technique to Cardiff the place he would develop into the primary British South Asian to signal for the crew since Michael Chopra greater than a decade earlier.
The emergence of 6ft 5in Punjabi goalkeeper Luthra offered one of many few shiny 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, changing into the primary goalkeeper to return out of Britain’s South Asian group to play within the Sky Guess Championship.
Chopra: A superb second
Former Newcastle and Sunderland striker Chopra, who scored 63 targets 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 probability in life and that’s very true within the soccer world. Typically you solely get one probability 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 blissful 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 performed 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 Faculty, whose former pupils embrace England batsman Jason Roy and rugby union gamers Elliot Daly, Danny Cipriani and Marland Yarde.
Rohan Luthra on worldwide obligation with England juniors at St George’s Park
Luthra, 21, grew to become an English County Faculties champion with Whitgift and spent two years taking part in in the identical crew as Chelsea and England winger Callum Hudson-Odoi.
Luthra was joined by his household as he put pen to paper on his transfer to Cardiff Metropolis
The pair received back-to-back nationwide Impartial Faculties Soccer Affiliation Cups collectively, with Luthra preserving 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 Variety chief
Anti-discrimination in soccer campaigner Nilesh Chauhan has changed Anwar Uddin MBE as chief of the Followers for Variety marketing campaign after the story was damaged solely by Sky Sports activities Information.
The primary British-Bangladeshi to play professionally, Anwar Uddin, talks South Asian illustration in soccer with Watford’s Hamza Choudhury. Nujum Sports activities ambassador Choudhury is the one British-Bangladeshi ever to play within the Premier League.
Sky Sports activities Information revealed earlier this 12 months that Uddin, who’s the mastermind behind Followers for Variety, was leaving his function with the Soccer Supporters’ Affiliation (FSA) to try to supercharge the Soccer Affiliation’s efforts to make soccer for all.
Chauhan has labored intently with the Followers for Variety marketing campaign – which is a jointly-funded initiative led by the Soccer Supporters’ Affiliation and Kick It Out selling variety 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 activities Information 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 anyone extraordinarily popular with all people at Aston Villa – an excellent function mannequin and ambassador for the membership and somebody who was at all times very beneficiant together with his time.
“It is nice to see him nonetheless progressing and getting alternatives. After captaining England juniors and profitable a trophy, to now go on and play for Pakistan is the stuff that desires are product of actually.
“However Easah has by no means stopped. He has earned the possibility to play on the worldwide stage and seeing that’s so useful for any South Asian teenager with aspirations and trying to get into the sport.”
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