Shabbir Ali
 Shabbir Ali in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 26 January 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Hyderabad, India | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1972 | Hyderabad Arsenal Club | ||
| 1972 | Tata Sports Hyderabad | ||
| 1972–1973 | East Bengal | ||
| 1973–1984 | Mohammedan | ||
| 1984–1985 | Victoria Sporting Dhaka | ||
| National team | |||
| 1974–1984 | India | 72 | (23) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1985–1992 | Mohammedan | ||
| 1992–1993 | |||
| 1993–1995 | Peerless SC | ||
| 1997–2000 | Salgaocar | ||
| 2000–2001 | Mahindra United | ||
| 2004 | Churchill Brothers | ||
| 2005 | Salgaocar | ||
| 2007–2010 | Mohammedan | ||
| 2011–present | Southern Samity | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Shabbir Ali, (born 26 January 1956) is an Indian football manager and former player.[1] He was awarded the Dhyan Chand Award, the highest award in Indian sports for lifetime achievement, given by Government of India in 2011.[2][3] He is the first footballer to be named for the Dhyan Chand Award.[4]
Career[]
As a footballer, Shabbir Ali was rated as the best player in India during the 1970s and 1980s. Arguably the finest striker of his time, Shabbir was a prolific goal scorer both at the national and international level. He rose to fame at a very early age when he captained India to win the Asian Youth championships in Bangkok jointly with Iran in 1974, a performance which even earned praise from the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.[1]
After playing with Tata Sports Club in Bombay for a few years, Shabbir Ali was lured away by the top Calcutta club, East Bengal in the late seventies. Later he joined Mohammedan Sporting and took the club to a great height before retiring from the same club in the mid-1980s.
During his captaincy, in 1983–84, the club won 9 trophies including back to back wins in Indian Federation Cup. Later in his playing days, he went to Bangladesh to play for Dhaka Victoria Sporting, where he stayed for a season only.[5]
Shabbir Ali scored 23 goals in international matches and remains one of India's all-time top scorers, ahead of Chuni Goswami, PK Banerjee, Inder Singh and Baichung Bhutia among others. In the 1976 Merdeka international football tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Shabbir Ali scored a hat-trick against Indonesia in the first 35 minutes. Only five footballers in India have scored an international hat-trick; of those, Shabbir Ali's is the fastest.[1]
International career[]
For 13 years between 1972 and 1984, Shabbir Ali was an automatic choice with the national team of India, be it Asian Youth, Asian Games, pre-Olympics, Asian Cup, Merdeka Cup tournament, Nehru Gold Cup, King's Cup or any other goodwill tour. He also captained India in Asian Youth, pre-Olympics, Nehru Cup, Merdeka and King's Cup tournaments.[1]
He played 72 international matches for India and scored 23 goals from 1972 to 1984.[6]
Coaching career[]
After retiring as a footballer in 1985, Shabbir Ali became a coach. He earned a first class diploma from the Sports Authority of India. He successfully passed the German football association B License coach and also their four-week coaching course, which is equivalent to A License.[1]
As a coach, Shabbir Ali proved to be a great success within a short period of time. Appointed the Technical Director of the India, Shabbir Ali steered the team to the gold medal in the 1995 South Asian Games in Chennai. It was a superb achievement considering the fact that India failed to win in the three previous South Asian Games at Colombo, Islamabad and Dhaka. He remained the Technical Director till the pre-World Cup tournament in Qatar next year.[1]
In the 1991–92 seasons, he made Mohammedan Sporting the Champion Club of India having won four tournaments and finished runners-up in two others. Next season, he took up the challenge of coaching a relatively smaller club when he accepted the assignment with Peerless SC. It took him only one season to promote the club to the Calcutta Super Division.[7]
Between 1997 and 1999, Shabbir Ali coached top Goan outfit Salgaocar and established himself as India's best coach. Barring a few like PK Banerjee and Syed Nayeemuddin, no other coach in India could win so many titles in such a short span as Shabbir Ali did.[1]
It started in 1998 when Salgaocar won the Goa Professional League under him and went on to win the Indian Super Cup defeating the National League champions, Mohun Bagan. Next Salgaocar won the National League title, the only time a Goan team could win it till date. Shabbir Ali then took the team to Bombay and won the Rovers Cup. Thereafter, the team flew into Delhi to bag the Durand Cup beating both Mohun Bagan and East Bengal and then tamed Mohun Bagan again in the Super Cup contest. No other teams in India have been given such a great run in Indian football in recent years.[1]
Football academy[]
In February 2021, Ali launched a football academy in Hyderabad named Shabbir Ali Football Academy, that became operational from 1 March.[8] The academy is also affiliated with Telengana Football Association.
Awards[]
He has been awarded Dhyan Chand Award and rewarded as India's best football coach, towards his service to coach Goan outfit Salgaocar Club between 1997 and 1999.[1][9]
See also[]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Shabbir Ali". Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ^ "National sports awards announced". The Hindu. 19 August 2011. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ Gagan Narang confirmed for Khel Ratna award Archived 8 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine NDTV, Press Trust of India on 18 August 2011.
- ^ "Shabbir Ali Wins Dhyan Chand Award". www.outlookindia.com/. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ Player Biography : Shabbir Ali – Only footballer to win Dhyan Chand award indianfooty.net. Retrieved 6 September 2021
- ^ Football Is My Language - Shabbir Ali Indianfootball.de. Retrieved 10 September 2021
- ^ "Indian Football "HALL OF FAME"". indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ Former India football captain Shabbir Ali launches academy sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 6 September 2021
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Indian footballers
- Footballers from Telangana
- India international footballers
- 1984 AFC Asian Cup players
- Indian football managers
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award
- Footballers from Hyderabad, India
- Footballers at the 1982 Asian Games
- Association football forwards
- Asian Games competitors for India
- SC East Bengal players
- Mohammedan SC (Kolkata) managers