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The All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) on Friday acquired a former participant as its first president in its 85-year historical past with Kalyan Chaubey beating the legendary Bhaichung Bhutia within the election for the highest publish. The 45-year-old Chaubey, a former goalkeeper with Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, received 33-1, a outcome that was anticipated as former captain Bhutia didn’t have many supporters within the 34-member voters’ checklist made up of state affiliation representatives.
The ‘Sikkimese Sniper’, additionally 45, couldn’t even get his state affiliation consultant as proposer or seconder for submitting his nomination papers.
Chaubey, a BJP politician who misplaced the final parliamentary election for the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal, by no means performed for the India senior crew although he was within the squad on few events.
He, nonetheless, performed for India in age-group worldwide tournaments. He was additionally a former goalkeeper at each Mohun Bagan and East Bengal.
In reality, Bhutia and Chaubey had been one-time teammates at East Bengal.
Karnataka Soccer Affiliation president N A Haris, a sitting Congress MLA, received the election for the lone publish of vp, beating Manvendra Singh of Rajasthan FA.
Arunachal Pradesh’s Kipa Ajay beat Gopalakrishna Kosaraju of Andhra Pradesh for the treasurer’s publish.
Kosaraju and Manvendra proposed and seconded Bhutia.
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All of the 14 candidates who had filed nominations for as many govt committee members’ posts had been elected unopposed.
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