Prasanta Sinha
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Date of birth | 1938 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bengal, British India | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 September 2015 (aged 77) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | |||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Left-half | |||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||
Eastern Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1964–1971 | East Bengal | |||||||||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
India | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Prasanta Sinha was an Indian association football player. He was part of the team that finished as runners-up at the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. He won a gold medal at the 1962 Asian Games football final by defeating South Korea 2-1.[1] In club football, he played for East Bengal FC, where he won Calcutta Football League once and IFA Shield three times. He played as a defender through out his entire career. He died at the age of 75 in 2015.[2]
Honours[]
International[]
India
- Asian Games: 1962
- AFC Asian Cup: 1964 runners-up
References[]
- ^ "Prasanta dies in hospital". Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Former Indian football player dies away". Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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- 2015 deaths
- Indian footballers
- India international footballers
- 1964 AFC Asian Cup players
- SC East Bengal players
- Footballers from Kolkata
- Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
- Footballers at the 1962 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for India
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Asian Games competitors for India
- Indian football biography stubs