1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament Explained

Tourney Name:	Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament
Year:	1953
Country:	Burma
Dates:	23 October – 2 November 1953
Num Teams:	4
Confederations:	1
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Count:	2
Matches:	6
Goals:	22
Prevseason:	1952
Nextseason:	1954
Top Scorer:	Samuel (4 goals)

The 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament was the second edition of the Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament held in Rangoon, Burma. India won the cup for a second time by winning all thee matches.^[1] It was India's first outright win in an international football tournament played abroad.^[2] The team received the rolling Colombo Cup and a Special Burma Cup for permanent retention.^[3]

Overview

The India team arrived in Rangoon on 22 October 1953 and the Pakistan side, a week before. The Indian Express described the Aung San Stadium, where all matches were to be played, as having "concrete and semi permanent stands all around the ground" with a capacity of 30,000. The rules of the tournament had not made wearing boots mandatory.^[4] Four of India's players — Sailen Manna, Ahmed Khan, Pansanttom Venkatesh and M. Thangaraj (in the second half) — played bare-footed against Pakistan in the tournament's first game, on 23 October.^[5]

Squads

colspan	Ceylon	colspan	India^[6]	colspan	Pakistan
T. H. Soono (captain) M. Sheriff O. L. M. H. Deen A. C. M. Junaid A. C. M. Khan Karunapala Fernando T. Bongso L. Cornelies Andrew Fernando T. J. Azeez M. T. A. Ossen Peter Ranasinghe Basheer Ahmed K. A. Premadasa A. R. Jailabdeen M. I. M. Laheer K. S. Richard K. Poddiappuhamy	Sailen Manna (captain) Sanjeeva Uchil Kenchappa Varadaraj K. S. Mani Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din G. Muthuraj Shankar Anthony Patrick Chandan Singh Rawat A. R. Gokul Kumar Amal Dutta Pansanttom Venkatesh Neville D'Souza M. Thangaraj Ahmed Khan Mohammad Abdus Sattar M. Jayaram V. J. Pereira	Muhammad Sharif (captain) Moideen Kutty Jamil Akhtar Sumbal Khan Abdul Majid Ahmad Ali Taj Mohammad Jr. Rashidullah Khan Jr. Akbar Jan Rashidullah Khan Fazal Rehman Talib Ali Riasat Ali Abdul Haq Mohammad Amin Lt. Mazhar Siddique Mohammad Abdul Malik Tarapada Roy

Matches

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Statistics

Goalscorers

Notes and References

1. Web site: Asian Quadrangular Tournament (Colombo Cup) 1952–1955: 1953 (Rangoon, Burma). RSSSF. 1999. Neil. Morrison. 27 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220927000411/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brindies-quad.html.
2. News: Indian Team Celebrate . 13 May 2022 . The Indian Express . 4 November 1953 . 6 . 13 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220513065004/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=usw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1939,2393048 . live .
3. News: India Presented With Trophies . 13 May 2022 . The Indian Express . 4 November 1953 . 6 . 13 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220513065005/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=usw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2927,2392456 . live .
4. News: Indian Soccer Team in Rangoon . 13 May 2022 . The Indian Express . 23 October 1953 . 6 . 13 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220513065004/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rsw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6634,1617147 . live .
5. News: India's Win . 13 May 2022 . The Indian Express . 25 October 1953 . 9 . 13 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220513054108/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sMw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C1770595 . live .
6. News: Indian Soccer Team To Rangoon . 13 May 2022 . The Indian Express . 21 October 1953 . 6 . 13 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220513065005/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rMw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4476,1496116 . live .