Chuni Goswami
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Subimal Goswami, a former Indian international footballer and first-class cricketer, was born on January 15, 1938, most commonly known by his name Chuni Goswami.
He was born in Kishoreganj District of undivided Bengal (now Bangladesh).
He appeared in 50 international games for India as a striker.
He was a first-class cricketer for Bengal during the Ranji Trophy.
Personal life
Goswami, a born in Kishoreganj, Bengal Presidency, went to Calcutta and settled there in his youth. Manik Goswami, his elder brother, was also a footballer who played for George Telegraph. Goswami was married to Basanti and gave birth to Sudipto, their son.
Football career
Despite numerous offers from other clubs, including one from Tottenham Hotspur, Chuni Goswami has the distinction of playing for a single club, Mohun Bagan, throughout his career.
Goswami joined the Mohun Bagan junior team in 1946 at the age of 8 years old. He was a member of the junior squad from 1954 to 2005 and then moved to the Mohun Bagan senior team. Goswami, a club legend, was mentored by Balaidas Chatterjee, and he continued to represent Mohun Bagan on several foreign tours. He continued playing for the club until his retirement in 1968. Goswami and Jarnail Singh were two of the team's highest-paid players in the 1960s; both of them captained the team respectively. In five seasons from 1960 to 1964, Goswami captained Mohun Bagan. During his time with the club, he won the Calcutta Football League six times, IFA Shield, and Durand Cup four times.
Chuni Goswami made his international debut for India in 1956 when the team defeated the Chinese Olympic team 1–0. He continued to compete in 50 international tournaments, including in Olympics, Asian Games, Asia Cup, and Merdeka Cup. In the 1964 Asian Games Gold Medal in Tel Aviv and in the Merdeka Cup, he captained India to the Asian Games Gold Medal and a Silver. Goswami is one of the "Indian football's holy trinity" and is best known for its strong links with P. K. Banerjee and Tulsidas Balaram.
Career statistics
Chuni Goswami played in 30 FIFA "A" international matches, scoring 9 times for the National team.
Cricket career
During the 1962–63 season, Chuni Goswami made his first class debut for Bengal in the Ranji Trophy. He was a Right Handed Batsman and a Right Arm Medium Pacer. Goswami was purely focused on playing cricket for West Bengal after separating from football. He appeared in two Ranji Trophy finals, losing to Mumbai each time. He scored 96 and 84 in the 1968–69 final; however, Mumbai defeated Mumbai on the first innings lead. Later, he coached the Bengal cricket team to a 1972 Ranji Trophy final in which they lost to Mumbai for whom Gavaskar and Shivalkar starred. Chuni Goswami took 8 wickets in the match against the touring West Indies team in December 1966, when his team triumphed the tourists by an innings. He played 46 first-class matches, scoring 1,592 runs with one century and seven fifties, and took 47 wickets in his cricket career, which spanned 1971-1973.
Managerial career
Goswami became a team official of Mohun Bagan and joined Karuna Bhattacharya's team in May 1972, where they defeated Dhaka Mohammedan in the first match, but lost to the Shadhin Bangla football team in their last match. He was the director of Tata Football Academy in 1986 and 1991-92, and he also supervised India's national football team.