Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 18 April 1942 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dehra Dun, British India | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 10 March 2016 (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Gurgaon, India | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1960–1967 | Gorkha Brigade | ||||||||||||||||
1967–1980 | Mafatlal SC | ||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
India | 22 | (2) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Amar Bahadur Gurung was a former Indian association football player who was part of the squad that secured the bronze medal at the 1970 Asian Games hosted at Bangkok. He scored the winning goal against Japan which secured the medal.
Honours
India
- Asian Games Bronze Medal: 1970
- Merdeka Tournament third place: 1970
- Pesta Sukan Cup: 1971
Gorkha Brigade
- Durand Cup: 1966, 1969
References
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- Media Team, AIFF (15 August 2022). "Indian Football Down the Years: Looking back at the glorious moments". www.the-aiff.com. New Delhi: All India Football Federation. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- "The Indian Senior Team at the 1970 Merdeka Cup". indiafootball.de. IndiaFootball. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
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- "Amar Bahadur passes away". The Hindu. 11 March 2016.
- 1942 births
- 2016 deaths
- Sportspeople from Dehradun
- Footballers from Uttarakhand
- Indian Gorkhas
- Indian men's footballers
- Asian Games bronze medalists for India
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
- Footballers at the 1970 Asian Games
- Gurung people
- Men's association football forwards
- Mumbai Football League players