FOOTBALL
NAME | ACHIEVEMENTS |
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SAILEN MANNA | Represented India in 48 & 52 Olympics, Gold Medalist 1951 Asian Games. Captain of India in all those tournaments. AIFF awarded him as the best indian football player of the last millanium. |
CHUNI GOSWAMI | Best Striker of Asia awarded in 1962, Arjuna Award in 1963, Padmashree in 1983, Mohunbagan Ratna in 2005, Chosen as a Sheriff of Kolkata and leaded as a Captain of Ranji Tropy from Bengal |
P. K. BANERJEE | Won Gold Medal in 1962 in Asian Games, Arjuna Award in 1961, Padmashree in 1990, Indian Footballer of 20th Century-Awarded by FIFA. Mr. Banerjee is the only footballer of Asia who has been Awarded the Fair Play Award by the Olympic Committee |
AHMED KHAN | Represented India in 48 & 52 Olympics, Gold Medalist 1951 Asian Games |
PRODYUT BARMAN | Winners of Gold Medal 1962 Asian Games |
SANAT SETH | Represented India in 54 Asian Games |
ARUN GHOSH | Represented India in 60 Olympics, Winners of Gold Medal 1962 Asian Games |
PRASANTA SINHA | Winners of Gold Medal 1962 Asian Games |
PALTU ROY | Represented India in 52 Olympics |
SABBIR ALI | First Indian Footballer who was awarded the Dhyan Chand Award, the highest award in Indian sports for lifetime achievement, given by Government of India in 2011 |
GOSTHO PAL | Padma Shri 1962 (First footballer to receive the honour). He is regarded as the best Indiandefender of all time Mohun Bagan ACawarded him the Mohun Bagan Ratna posthumously on 2004. |
SHANTI MALLICK |
First female footballer to get the prestigious Arjuna Award, back in 1983, She captained the Indian team between 1981 and 1983. Mullick was the first women's footballer to score a hat-trick for India in a 5–0 victory over Singapore in the 1981 AFC Women's Championship |