{"id":9377,"date":"2012-08-22T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2012-08-22T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T07:55:07","slug":"aiff-celebrates-its-platinum-jubilee-honors-former-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9377","title":{"rendered":"AIFF honor former players on Platinum Jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/chuni-goswami.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AIFF celebrates its Platinum Jubilee, honors former players\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: All India Football Federation celebrated its Platinum Jubilee Function in the Capital on Wednesday evening (August 21). It was a grand gathering at the Taj Palace graced by the living members of the 1951 and the 1962 Asian Games Gold Medal winning squad.<\/p>\n<p>Chuni Goswami, the Captain of the 1962 squad along with PK Banerjee, Prodyut Burman, Prasanta Sinha, Franco, Ethiraj, Afzal and Arumanayagam were present on the occasion. AIFF President Praful Patel presented a silver plaque and a shawl to each one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The evening also marked the unveiling of the Platinum Jubilee Souvenir and Technical Director Rob Baan\u2019s Masterplan.<\/p>\n<p>Patel said: \u201cIt\u2019s a personal honour to be a part of AIFF\u2019s Platinum Jubilee Year. I always maintain that managing football is this job is far more challenging than managing the ministry. We have to work that extra bit to achieve our goal. We have completed 75years, now we should set goals for the next 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pledge all of you to work as a football family. We need to emulate and exceed the feats of the yester-years. I request our Dutch Coaches to help us achieve our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the yesteryear Greats who were felicitated, Goswami added: \u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed by the reception. I thank AIFF for this. The 1962 Asian Games will forever be etched in memory as Golden days of Indian Football. But it\u2019s time to move ahead and not rest on laurels. Indian football is going ahead as we boast of a capable Coaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PK Banerjee complemented Goswami. \u201cThe AIFF has always supported its players. I stay grateful to them to honour us at such a platform,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>As the evening wore on, Technical Director Rob Baan unveiled his Masterplan, \u2018Lakshya.\u2019 While unveiling the much-awaited doctrine that holds the future of Indian football, the 69-year old Dutch said: \u201cThis is not my Masterplan. After coming to India I met so many people, visited State Associations and attended so many Seminars and Camps. We interacted and the suggestions have been taken into account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe kids need to brought into football. They should be given proper space to play and be educated. The Coaches and the Referees also need to be educated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe curriculum of football should be updated. Take Barcelona for example. They often play without a striker. The dynamics of football curriculum has changed and we need to stay updated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/chuni-goswami.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AIFF celebrates its Platinum Jubilee, honors former players\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: All India Football Federation celebrated its Platinum Jubilee Function in the Capital on Wednesday evening (August 21). It was a grand gathering at the Taj Palace graced by the living members of the 1951 and the 1962 Asian Games Gold Medal winning squad.<\/p>\n<p>Chuni Goswami, the Captain of the 1962 squad along with PK Banerjee, Prodyut Burman, Prasanta Sinha, Franco, Ethiraj, Afzal and Arumanayagam were present on the occasion. AIFF President Praful Patel presented a silver plaque and a shawl to each one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[973,5395],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football-football","tag-all-india-football-federation","tag-chuni-goswami"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AIFF honor former players on Platinum Jubilee - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9377\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AIFF honor former players on Platinum Jubilee - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: All India Football Federation celebrated its Platinum Jubilee Function in the Capital on Wednesday evening (August 21). 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