The 2020 Durga Puja has been of a subdued manner with the streets no more playing hosts to throngs of crowds in the City of Joy. However, while the people of West Bengal celebrate the festivities from the safe confines of their homes, the football governing body of the state …
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As XtraTime reports from Kolkata, the IFA (West Bengal) promoted itself and football legends Chuni Goswami and P.K. Banerjee in Kolkata during Durga Puja.
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As XtraTime reports from Kolkata, yesterday the 84th birthday of the late P.K. Banerjee was celebrated by the family and former footballers. It wasn’t easy to celebrate due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but the Banerjee family did with restrictions and they came forward to support different people and organisations.
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Sadly two of the biggest legends of Indian football, P.K. Banerjee and Chuni Goswami, died just 41 days apart in the last few weeks. I go back two decades to my early days in Indian football to the month of July in the year 2000, when I first met both …
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XtraTime shows the special East Bengal Club video condolence meeting of the late Indian football greats P.K. Banerjee and late Chuni Goswami.
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Former Indian international striker Shyam Thapa expressed his grief on the passing away of legendary footballer and coach P.K. Banerjee. Thapa in an exclusive NNIS chat said he is what he is today because of his famous coach, who breathed his last at a city hospital on last Friday. Watch …
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During his playing days Harjinder Singh was often described as the being the ‘most-crafty’ among all his contemporaries. And as the Indian football family mourns the loss of former National Team Captain, Coach and Technical Director the Padma Shri PK Banerjee, Harjinder said that Banerjee has “left leaving behind an …
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As XtraTime reports from Kolkata, tributes have poured in as the sports fraternity mourns the death of legendary footballer P.K. Banerjee.
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Current Indian Football Team assistant coach and Indian Arrows head coach Shanmugam Venkatesh hailed the late Pradip Kumar Banerjee as the “first icon of Indian Football”. Former India captain and ex-head coach P.K. Banerjee, who has represented the country 36 times with 19 goals to his name, passed away in …
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With the death of P.K. Banerjee, Indian football lost one of its greatest supporters, cheerleaders and innovators. The 1962 Asian Games gold-medallist also represented the country in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics where India made the semifinals and later captained the country at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he …
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