Football: AFC Youth Champion team of 1874 honored by AIFF President

India’s national junior team, which became AFC Youth Champion 50 years ago in 1974, was honored by All India Football Federation President Kalyan Choubey on Tuesday. Seven members of the joint champion team of 1974, captain Shabbir Ali, CC Jacob, Dilip Palit, Shishir Guha Dastidar, Ranjit Das and SP Kumar were given mementos. This memento was accepted by a family member of the winning team’s coach Arun Ghosh due to his hospitalization. In the final of the tournament played in Bangkok, India played a 2-2 draw against Iran in extra time. Choubey said that the 1970s were the golden time of Indian football. Ever since India became independent, we have not paid attention to football. Now we have no target other than the Olympics and Asian Games.