Thulukhanam Shanmugham (19 June 1920 – 13 December 2012) was an Indian footballer who represented his country in the 1952 Olympic Games.[1][2]
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Thulukhanam Shanmugham | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 June 1920 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Austin Town, Bangalore, India | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 December 2012 (aged 92) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | left-half | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| Maharaja Socials | |||||||||||||||||
| Bangalore Student FC | |||||||||||||||||
| Sullivan Police SC | |||||||||||||||||
| 1944–1954 | Mysore | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| India | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1978 | Karnataka | ||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1996 | Salgaocar FC | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career
editBorn in Austin Town, Bangalore,[3] Shanmugham played for Mysore State for most of his career, spurning offers to play for teams from Kolkata.[3] He was a gold medalist at the first Asian Games in 1951.[3]
Coaching career
editShanmugham was part of the first batch of coaches that came out of the National Institute of Sports, Patiala, in 1961. He was also one of the earliest to attend the 93-day FIFA coaching under Dettmar Cramer in Tokyo in 1969. [4] He was the coach of four Santosh Trophy winning sides and won two Federation Cup victories as manager of Salgaocar.[3] He was also a national selector.[4]
Career outside football
editShanmugham was a police officer by profession and served the Mysore city police for 35 years, working as a security officer to two state governors.[3]
Honours
editPlayer
editIndia
- Asian Games Gold medal: 1951
Mysore
- Santosh Trophy: 1946–47, 1952–53
Manager
editSalgaocar
- Federation Cup: 1988–89, 1989–90
Mysore
- Santosh Trophy: 1967–68, 1968–69
Goa
- Santosh Trophy: 1982–83, 1983–84
References
edit- ^ Prashanth, GN (13 June 2010). "Enduring passion". Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "T. Shanmugham". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Sukumar, Dev S (27 June 2010). "A great footballer remembers the barefoot generation". Daily News and Analysis. India. Archived from the original on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ a b Rayan, Joseph, Shanmugham : It couldn't be worse, Sportstar, 21 April 1984, p.13
External links
edit- Thulukhanam Shanmugham at WorldFootball.net
- Thulukhanam Shanmugham at Olympedia
- sports-reference- Thulukhanam Shunmugham.
At both sites says that a player was born in 1924 - T. Shanmugham's obituary
- T. Shanmugham at WorldFootball.net
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