Puran Bahadur Thapa Explained
| Puran Bahadur Thapa |
| Birth Date: | 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Upper Mawprem, Shillong, British India (now in Meghalaya) |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Clubs1: | 8th Gorkha Rifles |
| Clubs2: | Gorkha Brigade |
| Clubs3: | Services |
| Nationalteam1: | India |
| Nationalcaps1: | ? |
| Nationalgoals1: | 4 |
Puran Bahadur Thapa (born 1928) is an Indian footballer who played for the India national team and the Services football team. He scored a hat-trick for the national team in a 3–1 win against Pakistan in the 1954 Colombo Cup at the Eden Gardens. It was the second hat-trick by an Indian footballer post-independence in international football after Sheoo Mewalal.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Career
Thapa was an officer in the Indian Army[5] and represented the Gorkha Brigade and Services in the Santosh Trophy and domestic tournaments.[6]
International goals
Scores and results list India's goal tally first.
Honours
India
Notes and References
- Web site: 2020-04-22 . 10 players who have scored a hat-trick while playing for Indian national team Goal.com India . 2023-07-20 . www.goal.com . en-IN . Sheoo Mewalal scored the first hat-trick post-independence in a 4-0 win against Burma in the Colombo Quadrangular tournament..
- News: Meet India’s first hat-trick scorer from Meghalaya . The Northeast Today . 16 June 2018 .
- News: Who was the first Indian to score an international hat-trick in football . The Bridge . Chatterjee . Sayan . 10 December 2020 .
- News: 3 May 2020 . International hat-tricks scored by Indian footballers . Sportstar . Two years after Mewalal, Puran Bahadur Thapa bagged a hat-trick to steer India to a 3-1 triumph against Pakistan in the Calcutta Quadrangular tournament held at the Eden Gardens..
- Web site: No Country for Strikers: The Forgotten Goal Poachers of Indian Football. newsclick.in. Jaydeep. Basu. 26 February 2020. 29 June 2023.
- News: Puran Bahadur Thapa: India's first hat-trick man . Sportskeeda . Kapadia . Novy . 24 April 1983 .
- Web site: Asian Quadrangular Tournament 1954 (Calcutta, India). . Neil. Morrison. 1999. 17 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220927000411/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brindies-quad.html. 27 September 2022.
