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Ram Bahadur Chettri (15 February 1937 – 4 December 2000) 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 ...
. He competed in the men's tournament at the
1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...
. He appeared with
Calcutta Football League The Calcutta Football League (CFL) is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of West Bengal, organised by Indian Football Association (WB), under state football leagues in India. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league is off ...
club East Bengal and captained the team in 1960–61.


Honours

East Bengal *
IFA Shield The IFA Shield is an annual football competition organized by the Indian Football Association. The IFA is the governing body of football in the state of West Bengal, came into existence in 1893. Named after the association, the IFA Shield t ...
: 1958 India *
Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until th ...
Gold medal:
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wo ...
*
AFC Asian Cup The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
runners-up:
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
Individual * East Bengal Best Midfielder of the Millennium


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Legends of Indian Football: Ram Bahadur Chhetri
at The Hard Tackle 1937 births 2000 deaths Footballers from Uttarakhand Sportspeople from Dehradun Indian Gorkhas Indian footballers India international footballers 1964 AFC Asian Cup players Olympic footballers of India Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics East Bengal Club players Association football midfielders Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games Footballers at the 1962 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games medalists in football Calcutta Football League players {{India-footy-bio-stub