Shyam Thapa chosen for Mohun Bagan Ratna : Footballing legend Shyam Thapa to be awarded the Mohun Bagan Ratna

Shyam Thapa

Sports Exclusive, 8 July 2022: Former India males’s nationwide staff star and former technical director of the All India Soccer Federation (AIFF), Shyam Thapa has been chosen as the most recent recipient for the Mohun Bagan Ratna award – the membership’s highest honour, which he would obtain on its basis day ceremony on July 29.
Thapa is likely one of the best footballers to come back from India, with the striker making his title for East Bengal within the mid-Sixties and early 70s earlier than arch-rivals Mohun Bagan roped him in 1977 for a then Indian switch document sum of Rs 50,000.
The 74-year-old performed a key position within the Mariners’ success in 1977, main them to the IFA Defend, Rovers Cup and Durand Cup titles, and can be recognized for scoring a purpose towards the Pele-studded New York Cosmos in Mohun Bagan’s 2-2 attract an exhibition match in 1977.
“I’m honored. I’ve no hesitation in admitting that I waited for the ‘Mohun Bagan Ratna’. I’m very completely satisfied,” Thapa mentioned. 

Such was the respect that Thapa had achieved in Indian footballing circles that Nepal known as him to revamp their soccer system within the twenty first century and he was there within the first decade of the twenty first century.
The Mohun Bagan working committee additionally picked proficient teen Kiyan Nassiri because the ‘Greatest Ahead’, whereas Liston Colaco was adjudged the Greatest Footballer. Former goalkeeper Balai Dey might be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement.

PTI: Thapa was the chairman of the All India Football Federation’s technical committee before it was disbanded and CoA took over. 

The ceremony was held virtually last two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

THE AWARDEES ARE: 

Best Athlete: Bapi Sekh; 

Best Forward: Kiyan Nassiri; 

Best Sports Journalist: Ashok Dasgupta; 

Best Sports Official: VC Praveen (Gokulam Kerala FC); 

Best Cricketer: Prinann Dutta; 

Best Footballer: Liston Colaco; 

Lifetime Achievement: Balai Dey; 

Mohun Bagan Ratna: Shyam Thapa.