Shanti Mullick

Shanti Mullick

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	?	(14)
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.^{[ citation needed ]}

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

• Senior Women's National Football Championship: 1996–97 ^[1]

Individual

• Arjuna Award: 1983 ^{[15] [16] [17]}

References

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3. 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.
4. 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.
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6. 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.
7. "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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. "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.
12. "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.
13. "Asian Women's Championship 1981". RSSSF . Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
14. 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.
15. "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.
16. "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.
17. 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.