The Indian football team, on a high after a big draw against Asian champions Qatar in Doha, will take on Bangladesh in their 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup qualifier match at the Saltlake Stadium in Kolkata on October 15. India, without the services of injured centre-back Sandesh …
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XtraTime carried out an with interview with India goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu ahead of their 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Bangladesh in Kolkata.
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Two walls outside the dressing rooms at the Saltlake Stadium in Kolkata are enough to give one a sense of the rich history that has been witnessed inside the ramparts of the cauldron that in 1997 witnessed a record attendance of over 130,000 spectators in the 1997 Federation Cup semifinal …
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