On Saturday, 72-years-old former Indian footballer and coach Subhash Bhowmick passed away at 3:30 am IST after his health started deteriorating.
Suffering from diabetes and kidney disease since a long time, Bhowmick had been treatment at a private hospital in Ekbalpur, South Kolkata for the past two weeks.
Bhowmick was popularly known as ‘Bhombol da’ in Kolkata. After a successful career as footballer, he started his second innings as coach.
On 30 July, 1970 in the Merdeka Cup, Bhombhol da made his India debut against Farmosa. He represented India in 24 international matches and scored 9 goals in the process – including a hat-trick against Philippines in the Merdeka Cup in 1971 – a match which India won 5-1.
He was a part of the Indian team that won a bronze medal in 1970 Asian Games.
Subhash won a total of 26 trophies in his club career – 18 in Mohun Bagan itself. Subhash scored a total of 82 goals for Mohun Bagan in six years including four hat-tricks. He also scored 83 goals in five years for East Bengal. As a coach, he helped East Bengal claim the ASEAN Club Cup.
His best two years in terms of number of goals were 1970 (27 goals) and 1986 (19 goals). Bhowmik earned the name of ‘bulldozer’ in Kolkata maidans because of his goal-scoring capacity.
As a coach and a former attacking midfielder, he never believed in the modern ‘false nine’ style of playing football. He instead encouraged the classical attacking style and coached several players who later played for the country.
We at the Su-Niti News bow down to the Legendary Footballer and condole his demise.
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