Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury

Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury
Personal information
Full name	Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury
Date of birth	31 May 1948 (age 76)
Place of birth	Cox's Bazar, East Bengal, Pakistan (present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1968	Azad Sporting Club
1969–1980	WAPDA Sports Club
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

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 Dhaka League's Azad Sporting Club 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

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

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

Individual

National Sports Award: 2008^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "'ওই গর্ব আজীবন থাকবে'". Prothomalo (in Bengali). November 29, 2016. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "উজ্জ্বল মুখ". KalerKantho (in Bengali). December 3, 2015. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.
^ ১৯৭৩ সালে যাদের হাত ধরে বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ফুটবল দলের পথ চলা শুরু হয়েছিলো. Kiron's Sport Desk (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
^ "উজ্জ্বল মুখ". KalerKantho (in Bengali). November 26, 2015. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.
^ Zubaear, Arafat. "ফুটবলের ৫০ বছর : প্রথম দলের ১৭ জনের কে কোথায়?". dhakapost.com (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
^ "আন্তর্জাতিক ফুটবলে বাংলাদেশের প্রথম গোল". Prothomalo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
^ "PM calls upon pvt sector to stand by govt". The Daily Star. February 24, 2012. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.

Bibliography

Dulal, Mahmud (2020). খেলার মাঠে মুক্তিযুদ্ধ (transl. Liberation war in the playground) (in Bengali). Bishhoshahitto Bhobon. ISBN 978-984-8218-31-0.
Alam, Masud (2017). ফুটবলের গল্প ফুটবলারদের গল্প (transl. The story of football the story of footballers) (in Bengali). Bishhoshahitto Bhobon. ISBN 9789849134688.

[auto-1] "'ওই গর্ব আজীবন থাকবে'". Prothomalo (in Bengali). November 29, 2016. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.

[auto1-2] "উজ্জ্বল মুখ". KalerKantho (in Bengali). December 3, 2015. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.

[3] ১৯৭৩ সালে যাদের হাত ধরে বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ফুটবল দলের পথ চলা শুরু হয়েছিলো. Kiron's Sport Desk (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.

[4] "উজ্জ্বল মুখ". KalerKantho (in Bengali). November 26, 2015. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.

[5] Zubaear, Arafat. "ফুটবলের ৫০ বছর : প্রথম দলের ১৭ জনের কে কোথায়?". dhakapost.com (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.

[6] "আন্তর্জাতিক ফুটবলে বাংলাদেশের প্রথম গোল". Prothomalo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.

[7] "PM calls upon pvt sector to stand by govt". The Daily Star. February 24, 2012. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023.

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