O Chandrasekharan
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A brief biography
Kochi: Former India footballer and Olympian O Chandrasekharan, was part of the gold medal-winning Indian team at the 1962 Asian Games.
Most notably, he was a member of the 1960 Rome Olympics Indian team besides being part of the 1962 Jakarta Asian Games. He played for India from 1958-1966. He hails from Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district. He has a total of 25 caps to his name and also played in the Asian Cup Qualifiers in 1959, where he made his international debut, and Merdeka Cup in 1961, among other tournaments.
At the domestic level, he represented Maharashtra in the Santosh Trophy from 1959-1965, lifting the trophy in 1963.
He was 85. when he died in 2021