Anthony Patrick (1927 – 22 April 2010) was an Indian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played for the India national team and represented

Hyderabad City Police FC Hyderabad City Police Football Club (popularly known by the nickname City Afghans) was an Indian institutional football club, being the most famous and powerful team in Hyderabad, affiliated to the Hyderabad Football Association (HFA). The club w ...

in domestic tournaments.

Playing career

He was selected to play for the national team at the

1954 Asian Games The 1954 Asian Games (), officially known as the Second Asian Games – Manila 1954, were a multi-sport event held in Manila, Philippines, from May 1 to 9, 1954. A total of 970 athletes from 19 Asian National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in ...

at Manila and also at the 1953 and 1954 editions of the Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament. In 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament, he scored a goal against Burma national football team at

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. He also won five

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titles while playing for the Rahim managed Hyderabad City Police consecutively from 1950 to 1954. He also represented Hyderabad in

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Honours

Hyderabad City Police *

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: 1950–51, 1954, 1957–58, 1961; runner-up: 1952, 1956–57 *

: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957 *

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: 1959 * Sait Nagjee Trophy: 1958 India * Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament:

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Hyderabad *

: 1956–57, 1957–58

References

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