Subimal ‘Chuni’ Goswami, one of India’s sporting giants who captained the 1962 Asian Games gold-winning football team, died on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest.
The versatile sports veteran was 82 and is survived by his wife Basanti and son Sudipto. “He suffered a cardiac arrest and died at the nursing home at around 5pm,” Sudipto said. Goswami was battling underlying ailments, like sugar, and prostrate and nerve problems.
Born in undivided Bengal’s Kishoreganj district, which is now in Bangladesh, the striker played 50 international matches, 36 of them official, between 1956 and 1964, including the 1960 Olympics in Rome.