Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1928 | ||
Place of birth | Upper Mawprem, Shillong, [1] British India (now in Meghalaya) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
8th Gorkha Rifles | |||
Gorkha Brigade | |||
Services | |||
International career | |||
India | ? | (4) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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. [2] [1] [3] [4] [5]
Thapa was an officer in the Indian Army [6] and represented the Gorkha Brigade and Services in the Santosh Trophy and domestic tournaments. [1]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition |
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1. | 23 December 1954 | Calcutta FC Ground, Calcutta, India | Burma | 2–1 | 1954 Colombo Cup |
2. | 26 December 1954 | Calcutta FC Ground, Calcutta, India | Pakistan | 3–1 | 1954 Colombo Cup |
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India
Sheoo Mewalal scored the first hat-trick post-independence in a 4-0 win against Burma in the Colombo Quadrangular tournament.
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.