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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Sudhir Kumar Chatterjee<br />
| honorific-prefix = [[The Reverend|Reverend]]<br />
| image = Mohun Bagan 1911 IFA shield winning team.jpg<br />
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| caption = The [[IFA Shield]] winning team of 1911 - Chatterjee standing fifth from left<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1883|11|12}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1966|04|12|1883|11|12}}<br />
| death_place = Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]), [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
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[[The Reverend|Rev]]''' Sudhir Kumar Chatterjee ''' or Sudhir Kumar Chattopadhyay (1883–1966), was an Indian footballer of [[Mohun Bagan AC]] in the historic 1911 [[IFA Shield]] final, where they defeated the [[East Yorkshire Regiment]] to become the first Indian team to win the competition.<ref name="Mohun">[http://www.mohunbaganclub.com/mbday.html Mohun Bagan official site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729081506/http://www.mohunbaganclub.com/mbday.html |date=29 July 2009 }}</ref> He was also known as an famous educationist and a member of Christian clergy.<ref name="sk">{{cite web| title = The death anniversary of Indian Football's first legend| date=14 April 2013| url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/the-death-anniversary-of-indian-footballs-first-legend| access-date =2022-02-05}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Born as Sudhir Kumar Chatterjee (or Sudhir Kumar Chattopadhyay) on 12 November 1883 and educated from Bishop's College in Theology. He joined [[Mohun Bagan AC]] in 1904, while he was engaged as a teacher in London Missionary Society College, Bhowanipore, Calcutta.<ref name= "Samsad">{{cite book<br />
|title= Samsad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.I (in Bengali)<br />
|publisher= Sahitya Sansad, Kolkata<br />
|editor = Subodhkumar Sengupta & Anjali Bose<br />
|year = 2016<br />
|pages =794<br />
|isbn= 978-81-7955-135-6<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Chatterjee was the only booted member{{huh|date=October 2022}} of the immortal eleven but his football career ended in 1914 due to serious injury. In the football team he was highly educated man. He had completed his M A degree. When his football career was over, he went for his higher studies from [[Cambridge University]] in England in 1923. He got the post of lecturer at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]. But soon after he returned India, he established a Residential educational Institute named Bishnupur Shiksha Sangha at [[Bishnupur, Bankura|Bishnupur]], South 24 Parganas. He was the Principal of the institute for several years. He was also associated with several educational institute, like [[Scottish Church College]] and Women' College at Calcutta.<br />
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Later in life, he became a priest and was known as [[The Reverend]] and represented India in several International Missionary Conferences.<ref name="sk" /><ref name= "Samsad"/><br />
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==Love for football and country==<br />
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His love for the game and Mohun Bagan remained undiminished. He witnessed the 1947 IFA Shield final, when Bagan won the tournament after a lapse of 36 years. He was the only surviving member of the 1911 team when the club celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in 1964. During the [[Sino-Indian War]] in 1962, he auctioned his 1911 gold medal and gave the proceeds to the national defense fund.<ref name="sk" /><br />
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==Awards==<br />
[[Mohun Bagan AC]] awarded Chatterjee ''Mohun Bagan Ratna'' in 2010 posthumously.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://themohunbaganac.com/|title=Official website|access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1883 births]]<br />
[[Category:1966 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali people]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Christians]]<br />
[[Category:Indian men's footballers]]<br />
[[Category:Footballers from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:Indian educators]]<br />
[[Category:Educators from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian educators]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]<br />
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