Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury

Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury is a former Bangladeshi footballer who played as a striker. He was a member of the first Bangladesh national team in 1973.

Club career

Sunil began his football career in the Chittagong First Division League in 1965, playing for Towns Club, Customs, and Port Trust in Chittagong. He then joined Azad Sporting Club in the Dhaka First Division League in 1968. Subsequently, Sunil took up a job at the Water and Power Development Authority in East Pakistan, where he spent the remainder of his career playing for both Dhaka and Chittagong-based WAPDA Sports Club. At the peak of his career, he rejected an offer to join Mohammedan SC as he was an employee of the parent corporation, WAPDA.

In 1973, Sunil was selected by coach Sheikh Shaheb Ali for the first Bangladesh national football team. He traveled with the team to participate in Malaysia's 1973 Merdeka Tournament, during which he assisted Bangladesh's first international goal, scored by Enayetur Rahman Khan, during the country's inaugural game against Thailand.

Following his retirement from playing, Sunil coached WAPDA to three Chittagong First Division League titles. In 2006, Sunil retired from all football activities as the senior assistant director of WAPDA. In 2015, served as the general secretary of the National Sportsmen's Welfare Association in the Chittagong division.

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