Final Up to date: February 16, 2023, 16:05 IST
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Asian Video games gold-medal-winning breathed his final round 2 pm on Thursday after a chronic sickness. He was hospitalised on December 26 final yr and was being handled for a urinary an infection and stomach distension
India’s Asian Video games gold-medal-winning footballer and Olympian Tulsidas Balaram died right here on Thursday after a chronic sickness, sources near his household stated.
Balaram was 87 and a widower residing in a flat on the banks of Hooghly river in Uttarpara.
The 1962 Asiad champion was hospitalised on December 26 final yr and was being handled for urinary an infection and stomach distension.
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”His situation didn’t enhance and he breathed his final round 2pm at the moment,” a supply near the household instructed PTI.
”We’re grateful to the state authorities and the sports activities minister Aroop Biswas for taking excellent care of him throughout his final days,” he added.
Balaram belonged to the golden technology of Indian soccer within the Nineteen Fifties and 60s when he paired with legends comparable to Chuni Goswami and PK Banerjee, they usually got here to be generally known as ‘the holy trinity’.
An Arjuna awardee, Balaram’s exploits on the 1960 Rome Olympics are nicely documented.
Positioned within the ’group of dying’ with Hungary, France and Peru, India misplaced the opener to Hungary 1-2 however Balaram lined himself in glory by scoring a 79th-minute purpose.
India got here near upsetting France a couple of days later with Balaram once more exhibiting his class.
Balaram, who largely performed as a centre-forward or as a left-winger, known as it a day in 1963 owing to poor well being.
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