Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury | ||
| Date of birth | 31 May 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Cox's Bazar, East Bengal, Pakistan (present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968 | Azad SC | ||
| 1969–1975 | WAPDA SC | ||
| 1976 | PWD SC | ||
| International career | |||
| 1973 | Bangladesh | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury (Bengali: সুনীল কৃষ্ণ দে চৌধুরী; born 31 May 1948) is a former Bangladeshi footballer who played as a striker. He was a member of the first Bangladesh national team in 1973.
Club career
[edit | edit source]Sunil began his football career in the Chittagong First Division League in 1965, playing for Towns Club, Customs, and Port Trust in Chittagong. He then joined Azad Sporting Club in the Dhaka First Division League in 1968. Subsequently, Sunil took up a job at the Water and Power Development Authority in East Pakistan, where he spent the remainder of his career playing for both Dhaka and Chittagong-based WAPDA Sports Club.[1] At the peak of his career, he rejected an offer to join Mohammedan SC as he was an employee of the parent corporation, WAPDA.[2]
International career
[edit | edit source]In 1973, Sunil was selected by coach Sheikh Shaheb Ali for the first Bangladesh national football team.[3][4] He traveled with the team to participate in Malaysia's 1973 Merdeka Tournament, during which he assisted Bangladesh's first international goal, scored by Enayetur Rahman Khan, during the country's inaugural game against Thailand.[5]
I feel proud to be the first goal scorer of the nation. Sunil (Sunil Krishna de Chowdhury) of Cox's Bazar contributed a lot to my goal.
— Enayetur Rahman Khan on scoring Bangladesh national football team's first ever goal.[6]
Post-playing career
[edit | edit source]Following his retirement from playing, Sunil coached WAPDA to three Chittagong First Division League titles.[2] In 2006, Sunil retired from all football activities as the senior assistant director of WAPDA. In 2015, served as the general secretary of the National Sportsmen's Welfare Association in the Chittagong division.[1]
Honours
[edit | edit source]Individual
- National Sports Award: 2008[7]
References
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- Living people
- 1948 births
- Bangladeshi men's footballers
- Bangladesh men's international footballers
- Bangladeshi Hindus
- People from Cox's Bazar District
- Footballers from Chittagong Division
- Men's association football forwards
- Bangladeshi football managers
- Recipients of the Bangladesh National Sports Award
- 20th-century Bangladeshi sportsmen
- 20th-century Pakistani sportsmen