Ankit Sharma
Ankit Sharma at Kalinga Football Stadium, Odisha.
Personal information
Full name Ankit Sharma
Date of birth (1991-07-30) 30 July 1991
Place of birth New Delhi, India
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder and Striker
Team information
Current team
 Bhawanipore FC
Number 10
Youth career
2002–2009 Air Force Bal Bharati School[1]
2007–2009 Youngmen Sports Club
2002–2009 DDA Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 HAL 12 (1)
2011–2012 Deportivo San Cristóbal 8 (0)
2012–2013 Bhawanipore 10 (1)
International career
2010 India U19 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ankit Sharma (born on 30 July 1991, in New Delhi) is an Indian professional football player who play as Midfielder and Striker. He has played for Delhi Football Team,[2] Youth Indian National teams, HAL Bangalore and Deportivo San Cristóbal in the Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in the Community of Madrid, Spain. He is the first Indian to sign a professional contract with a Spanish Club and the fifth Indian to play overseas in the history of Indian Football.[3]

Club career

HAL

Ankit's professional career began at the young age of 19 with HAL in the I-league, 2010-11 season.[4] Sharma got injured in the Dr. B.C Roy Trophy Semi-Final match and had a six-month outing, but he recovered well and came back after recovering from a knee injury. He appeared in all the matches post-signing for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited S.C. in 2010–11 season[5]

He had one of the rarest and saddest experiences while playing his trade at his first club. HAL goalkeeper Arun Kumar collided with Ankit in a training session just before the match against Pune FC, fracturing his right shin bone and injuring Ankit's right knee, which kept him out of training for a week's rest.[6]

San Cristobal

Ankit Sharma became the first Indian to sign a professional contract with a Spanish Club in 2011-12 and the fifth Indian to play overseas in the history of Indian Football. He signed for Spainish club Deportivo San Cristóbal[7] in the Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in the Community of Madrid[8][9][10] after a successful season with HAL in I-league 2010-11 season.

Bhawanipore

For 2012-13, he signed a contract with IInd Division I-League and Calcutta Football League outfit Bhawanipore FC.


Honours

India U-19

  • Dr. B.C. Roy Trophy: 2009-10 (Captain, IInd Runners-Up)

HAL

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Air Force Bal Bharati School". Archived from the original on 5 March 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Delhi Football Team
  3. ↑ Sharma, Varun (28 August 2012). "Ankit Sharma becomes the 5th Indian to sign for a foreign club". sportskeeda.com. Sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "HAL to go all out against ONGC". gcsstars.com. 5 February 2011. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021.
  5. ↑ "Meetei wins it for HAL". the-aiff. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  6. ↑ "indian-goalkeeper-arun-kumar-dies-after-suffering-cardiac". Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Hiremath, Darshan (24 November 2011). "Indian footballers playing abroad : The Pros and Cons". thefootballasylum.com. The Football Asylum. Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  8. ↑ Rudra Nayan Das (30 September 2011). "Ankit Sharma signs a professional contract with Spanish club". Indian Football Network. Archived from the original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "Sharma becomes first Indian to play in Spain". Mumbai Mirror. 5 October 2011. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "Spanish sojourn for Delhi footballer". The Times of India. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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