Friday 29th Mar 2024
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Former footballer Parimal Dey passes away!

Former footballer Parimal Dey passes away!

Former footballer Parimal Dey passes away. The former East Bengal footballer was 76 years old. He breathed his last yesterday, Tuesday around 12:30 PM.

In football maidan, he was popularly known as Jangla Da to football fans. He was called the hero of that historic match against Pass Club in the 1970 Shield Final. Parimal Dey turned the game around in the last minute of the final match against Pass Club of Iran.

Jangla Da, the favorite of the football gallery returned to the East Bengal tent as a hero that day by scoring a goal without being in the first eleven. At that time the word Super Sub did not come into football.

Literally Parimal Dey was Maidan’s first super sub. Bengal’s football community is saddened by his death.