Manzur Hasan Mintu

Manzur Hasan Mintu was a Bangladeshi footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He worked for radio and television as a sports commentator for 40 years since 1973. He was awarded National Sports Award for football and badminton by the Government of Bangladesh in 1978.

Early life

Mintu was born on 7 April 1940, in Bakshi Bazar neighbourhood of Dhaka, Bengal, British India. He was a student of Dhaka College from 1956.

Mintu began playing in the Third Division of Dhaka with Kamal Sporting Club in 1951, where he was trained by local coach Bazlur Rahman. He started playing in the Second Division in 1953 and remained at the club until 1955.
In 1956, at the age of 16, Mintu made his debut in the First Division with Fire Service AC. In 1958, he joined Dhaka Wanderers Club and captained the team to a runners-up finish in 1959 and a league title in 1960. Notably, he represented the Wanderers in the 1957 IFA Shield in Calcutta and the 1961 President's Gold Cup in Karachi. He also represented Dhaka University in the 1961 Aga Khan Gold Cup. He represented East Pakistan in the National Football Championship from 1957 to 1959 and later played for Dhaka Division from 1961 to 1963.

In 1959, Mintu represented East Pakistan Sports Federation XI in two exhibition matches against the Pakistan national team. The first game held on 18 April, ended in a 0–7 defeat, while the second match on 14 May, saw EPSF XI suffer a 1–2 defeat.
Mintu played for the Pakistan national football team in the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo. Notably, the team included six Bengali players, including captain, Nabi Chowdhury.

Mintu graduated from the University of Dhaka with a major in political science in 1961 and began working as an income tax commissioner in 1964. After the retirement, he served as the treasurer of the National Sports Council, and began his career as a sports commentator from 1973. Mintu also played cricket, badminton, and hockey at the domestic level. He served as the joint-secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation from 1972 to 1975. He was also the general secretary of Dhaka Wanderers Club in 1986–88 and 1991–92, and the president in 2007–08.

Mintu died on 18 November 2014, after suffering a cardiac arrest in Jaipur, India.

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