| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Shanti Mullick | ||
| Date of birth | 1964[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Bengal | |||
| International career | |||
| 1980–1986 | India | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1996–1997 | Bengal | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Shanti Mullick is an Indian former women's footballer who played as a forward for the India women's national football team.[2][3][4][5] Mullick is the first Indian women's footballer to receive the Arjuna Award, the second-highest Indian sports award.[1][6]
Career
Football
Mullick was born in Kalighat,[1] Kolkata, West Bengal and her father was also a footballer who served in the military.
Mullick represented India at the AFC Women's Championships where the team reached the finals twice and finished as runners-up in the 1980 and 1983 editions.[7][8][9] She played for the national team managed by legendary Sushil Bhattacharya.[10][11][12] Her team also finished in third place in the 1981 edition. She captained the Indian team between 1981 and 1983. Mullick was the first women's footballer to score a hat-trick for India in a 5–0 victory over Singapore in the 1981 AFC Women's Championship.[13][2][14]
Following her retirement, she runs a football academy and coaches youth women's footballers.[2][4]
Field hockey
Mullick also played field hockey from 1986 to 1994 while posted at Eastern Railway.[1][4]
Honours
Player
India
- AFC Women's Championship runner-up: 1980, 1983; third place: 1981
Manager
Bengal
Individual
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Biswas, Sudipta (14 October 2019). "Shanti Mullick: A Rebel Who Embraces Hardships". Delhi Post News. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- 1 2 3 Bontra, Soumya (7 February 2022). "'Who will tell our story?': Shanti Mullick, the woman who took India to two AFC Cup finals". The Bridge. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ↑ Rathod, Kalwyna (2 November 2020). "Meet Shanti Mallick, India's First Female Footballer Arjuna Awardee". Femina. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- 1 2 3 Raghunandan, Vaibhav (29 January 2022). "Shanti Mullick: A Mystical Passer in a Physical World Indian Women's Football History Special Series". Newscllick. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ↑ Media Team, AIFF (15 August 2022). "Indian Football Down the Years: Looking back at the glorious moments". www.the-aiff.com. New Delhi: All India Football Federation. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ Nag, Utathya (24 March 2022). "Beacons who lit the way for women's football in India". Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ↑ "Women's Asian Cup - When hosts India grabbed the silver medal in 1979". Goal.com. 14 June 2020. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ↑ Raghunandan, Vaibhav (14 January 2022). "Trailblazers go down memory lane as India hosts AFC Women's Asian Cup". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ↑ Das, Debasmita (14 May 2019). "ইস্টবেঙ্গলের প্রথম পেশাদার কোচ, না পাওয়ার বাস্তবে এ এক অন্য তথ্যচিত্র!" [East Bengal's first professional coach, this is another documentary in reality!]. bengali.indianexpress.com (in Bengali). Kolkata: The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ↑ Mitra, Atanu (19 July 2015). "Legendary Indian coach Sushil Bhattacharya passes away". www.goal.com. Kolkata: Goal. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ↑ "EAST BENGAL CLUB, INDIA – RECORDS, FUNS AND FACTS | SUSHIL BHATTACHARYA – THE FIRST COACH OF EAST BENGAL CLUB – 1961". eastbengalclubrecords.wordpress.com. East Bengal Club. 24 November 2014. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ↑ "ইস্টবেঙ্গলের প্রথম কোচ প্রয়াত" [First coach of East Bengal passed away]. www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Kolkata: Anandabazar Patrika. 19 July 2015. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ "Asian Women's Championship 1981". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ↑ Shreekumar, S.S. (2020). The Best way forward: for India's Football. HSRA. ISBN 978-81-947216-9-7. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
- ↑ "LIST OF ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS - Football | Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports". yas.nic.in. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
- ↑ "List of Arjuna Awardees (1961–2018)" (PDF). Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (India). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ↑ Chaudhuri, Arunava (2000). "National Award winning Footballers". indianfootball.de. IndianFootball. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
Bibliography
- Shreekumar, S.S. (2020). The Best way forward: for India's Football. HSRA. ISBN 978-81-947216-9-7.
- Kapadia, Novy (2017). Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-143-42641-7.
- Martinez, Dolores; Mukharjiim, Projit B (2009). Football: From England to the World: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-88353-6. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022.
- Nath, Nirmal (2011). History of Indian Football: Upto 2009–10. Readers Service. ISBN 9788187891963. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022.
- Taylor & Francis: Soccer and Society (2005). The gendered kick: Women's soccer in twentieth century India, Soccer & Society, 6:2–3, 270–284, DOI: 10.1080/14660970500106469.
Further reading
- Bhowmick, Mithun (15 December 2018). "ভারতীয় ফুটবলের অসুখসমূহ: পর্ব – ২" [Diseases of Indian football: Episode – 2]. bengali.indianexpress.com (in Bengali). Kolkata: IE Bangla Sports Desk. Indian Express News Service. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
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