With AIFF declaring a week-long mourning period for Pele, here is a report of when he visited Calcutta in 1977 to play against Mohun Bagan.
Posts tagged as “indian football history”
Former India goalkeeper and captain Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, has on Republic Day, 2022, been conferred with the Padma Shri award.
Is that Spiderman? No, it is Victor Manjila; K.G. Raghunandanan profiles former Indian international goalkeeper Victor Manjila.
Nicknamed "Bullet Train" by the Japanese, Inder Singh an inside right forward who was not only a brilliant goal scorer, but also a scorer of barely believable goals.
In this post, I'm going to use the cold, hard world of facts to put the Indian National Team's footballing history under the scanner and will try and gauge the level of Indian football over the years.
India’s first bonafide star striker was treated with apathy throughout his career and in retirement - he died the same way, forgotten and discarded by a history he helped write
Africa's contribution to our footballing history has been immense. While Ranti Martins, Yusif Yakubu and Odafa Okolie scored more goals, the greatest player to grace us from the continent was probably Chima Okorie.