{"id":52610,"date":"2021-09-18T06:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=52610"},"modified":"2021-09-18T06:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:08:57","slug":"former-india-player-and-mohun-bagan-great-bhabani-roy-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/former-india-player-and-mohun-bagan-great-bhabani-roy-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former India player and Mohun Bagan great Bhabani Roy passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former India international and\u00a0Mohun Bagan\u00a0legend Bhabani Roy, who excelled as the country&#8217;s first &#8216;overlapping full-back&#8217; under the tutelage of the great\u00a0Amal Dutta,\u00a0passed away in Kolkata on Monday following a prolonged illness. He was joined Bagan in 1966 and played for the club till\u00a0<strong>1972.<\/strong>\u00a0He represented India in the\u00a0<strong>1969 Merdeka Cup<\/strong>\u00a0and played in three matches. Bhabani Roy helped Mohun Bagan win the\u00a0<strong>Rovers Cup<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>1968, 1970, 1971, and 1972 (Joint Winner).<\/strong>\u00a0At the domestic level, he was part of the West Bengal team that won the<strong>\u00a0Santosh Trophy<\/strong>\u00a0in 1968 and 1971. Roy was admitted in a city hospital for the last few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India international and\u00a0Mohun Bagan\u00a0legend Bhabani Roy, who excelled as the country&#8217;s first &#8216;overlapping full-back&#8217; under the tutelage of the great\u00a0Amal Dutta,\u00a0passed away in Kolkata on Monday following a prolonged illness. He was joined Bagan in 1966 and played for the club till\u00a01972.\u00a0He represented India in the\u00a01969 Merdeka Cup\u00a0and played in three matches. Bhabani Roy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":52611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[1742,1743],"class_list":["post-52610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-bhabani-roy-passes-away","tag-india-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52612,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610\/revisions\/52612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}