Amar Bahadur Gurung
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Date of birth | 18 April 1942 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dehra Dun, British India | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 10 March 2016[1] (aged 73) | |||||||||||||||
Place of death | Gurgaon, India | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1960-1967 | Gorkha Brigade | |||||||||||||||
1967-1980 | Mafatlal SC | |||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
India | ||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Amar Bahadur Gurung was a former Indian association football player who was part of the squad that secured the bronze medal at the 1970 Asian Games hosted at Bangkok.[2][1][3] He scored the winning goal against Japan which secured the medal.[4][5]
Honours[]
International[]
India
- Asian Games: 1970 Bronze Medal
References[]
- ^ a b "Former football international Amar Bahadur dead". The Times of India. 10 March 2016.
- ^ Basu, Jaydeep (3 February 2020). "Indian football's finest: 50 years on, remembering the stars of 1970 Asian Games bronze-winning team". Scroll.in.
- ^ "The Indian Senior Team at the 1970 Bangkok Asian Games". Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Marar, Nandakumar (12 March 2016). "Amar Bahadur was a 'Saab' on the left wing". The Hindu.
- ^ Gusain, Raju (12 March 2016). "Farewell, Amar Bahadur: the man who brought India the 1970 Asiad football bronze". Catchnews.
Categories:
- 1942 births
- 2016 deaths
- Sportspeople from Dehradun
- Footballers from Uttarakhand
- Indian Gorkhas
- Indian footballers
- Asian Games bronze medalists for India
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
- Footballers at the 1970 Asian Games
- Asian Games competitors for India
- Gurung people