Kenchappa Varadaraj
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Kenchappa Varadaiah Varadaraj | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 7 May 1924||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mysore | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 20 December 2011 | (aged 87)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
Mysore | |||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
India | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
K. V. Varadaraj (7 May 1924 – 20 December 2011)[2] was an Indian footballer.[3] He competed for India at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[4]
Honours
[edit]India
- Asian Games Gold medal: 1951
- Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament: 1953[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Legendary 'Six-footer' Olympian Varadaraj no more". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "Olympian footballer Varadaraj passes away". allafrica.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "Kenchappa Varadaraj". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 17 October 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ "KV Varadaraj Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ "Indian Soccer Team To Rangoon". The Indian Express. 21 October 1953. p. 6. Archived from the original on 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1924 births
- 2011 deaths
- Indian men's footballers
- India men's international footballers
- Olympic footballers for India
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Mysore
- Footballers from Bengaluru
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Footballers at the 1951 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1951 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for India
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Indian football biography stubs