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As Bangla Time reports, the late Swapan Bal was a knowledgeable person, an influential person at East Bengal Club, who will not only be missed by the red and gold, but the whole football fraternity of the Kolkata Maidan.

Swapan Bal died aged 71 in the early hours of Friday after a long fight against cancer. For most of his adolescent and adult life, Swapan Bal lived and breathed East Bengal. He was a footballer of some standing playing as goalkeeper for East Bengal’s development teams in what was …