Raman Vijayan (born 4 June 1973) is a football coach, former

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n football player, founder of Noble Football Academy And RamanVijayan Soccer School. Who currently assistant coach of

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club

Chennaiyin FC Chennaiyin Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The club competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top flight of Indian football. The club was founded in August 2014 during the inaugural sea ...

. Raman is one of two Indian footballers, the other being Baichung Bhutia, to be the top scorer in the old

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after he scored 10 goals during the 1997–98 season.

Club career

Raman started his footballing career with

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before the National Football League began in 1996. After the 1997-98 season, Raman became the top scorer in the NFL that season after he scored 10 goals. Later in his career, he went on to play for CPT in the

Calcutta Football League The Calcutta Football League (CFL) is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of West Bengal, organised by the Indian Football Association (WB) as part of the state leagues. It is the oldest football league in Asia. The CFL ...

International

Raman has represented the

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during his playing career.

Coaching career

For the

2012 I-League 2nd Division The 2012 I-League 2nd Division was the fifth season of the then second tier of Football in India, using promotion and relegation with the I-League. Stadiums The 2012 I-League 2nd Division was played in 4 stadiums. Three of the stadiums were us ...

Raman was hired to coach

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side KGF Academy. After coaching South United, Vijayan went back to Tamil Nadu to coach Chennai FC. In July 2015, it was announced that Vijayan would become the assistant coach at

side Delhi Dynamos. He would also be the technical director of the team's grassroots program.

Honours

India *

SAFF Championship The SAFF Championship (erstwhile SAARC Gold Cup and SAFF Gold Cup), is the primary association football competition contested by the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the South Asian Football Fede ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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Bronze medal:

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Bengal *

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: 1996–97, 1998–99 East Bengal * Federation Cup:

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Individual *

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Golden Boot: 1997–98

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vijayan, Raman 1977 births Living people Indian men's footballers India men's international footballers Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games Footballers from Tamil Nadu Men's association football forwards Asian Games footballers for India FC Kochin players South Asian Games medalists in football South Asian Games bronze medalists for India South United FC managers I-League 2 managers