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A rare photo from 1977, when Pele came to Kolkata with his club New York Cosmos to play a friendly game against Mohun Bagan in front of 80,000 people at Eden Gardens! ❤️

The match ended in a 2-2 draw that day!

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Since his debut in 2005, Sunil Chetri has scored 84 International goals against 45 different National Teams.

And out of the 6 FIFA confederations, he has scored:

i. 76 Goals⚽️ vs AFC nations.
ii. 2⚽️ vs CONCACAF Nations
iii. 5⚽️ vs CAF Nations
iv. 1⚽️ vs OFC Nations

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India's best performance in the AFC U-17 AsianCup was in the 2002 & 2018 Editions. Both times we made it to the quarterfinal stage and lost out to SouthKorea.

Since 1985, the Indian colts have managed to qualify 9 times in the U17 AsianCup, out of a total of 20 Editions.
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