Pictures by Bibhash Lodh, BS News Agency.
Bibhash Lodh, BS News Agency: Majid Bhaskar's last picture on Indian soil!! The king was almost gone then! He is playing for Mohammedan Sporting without any salary!!
But it is not said that form is temporary but class is permanent!!
The 1986/1987 Kolkata League match between Mahamedan and Bhatrisangha....
This was the last year of footballer Majid in the series of events (many say that Majid did not play football after 1985 - this is incorrect information)
The second half of the game had started about 50 minutes into the match... Suddenly, there was a sound of applause in the Mahamedan gallery along with the sound of Majid Majid.... Majid Bhaskar was seen standing on the Mahamedan reserve bench and starting a light warm-up.... At that time, of course, Majid had left his best time behind.... Still, seeing Majid, the Mahamedan supporters saw a glimmer of hope in their hearts.... Majid entered the field instead of Sandeep Munshi.... But he could not do anything as expected with two free kicks and two corners.... The audience was also disappointed.... Maybe the audience thought that this Majid had nothing new to offer! Just a shadow of the past!!! Meanwhile, the game is almost at its final stretch....at any moment, the referee will blow the long whistle for the end of the game....the disappointed Mahamedan gallery has become empty... many spectators have set off for home thinking that the points have been wasted again....
Mahamedan is on the attack again...maybe this is the last attack...Pradeep Talukdar is moving forward with the ball....Pradeep Talukdar passed the Mahamedan midfield and gave the ball to Majid, the forward...The ball is now at Majid's feet, the brother's left back is in front....Majid dodged the brother's left back on the outside side but Majid took the ball and went to the far corner, just before the corner flag, from where one of the brother's two posts can be seen.....there was a mess in the brother's box...everyone was ready for Majid's center....The Mohammedan footballers will head Majid's center and hit the net And the Bhatri players would have cleared the ball and ruined the last attack of the day and taken a valuable point... But King Majid thought otherwise... Majid's right foot outstep from that zero degree angle... The ball swung a lot and completely defeated the Bhatri goalkeeper, who had played amazingly throughout the match, and the ball went into the net from the very corner of the second post... Undoubtedly a world-class goal.... The goal that we later saw Holland's Basten score in the Euro Cup... The relaxed Mahamedan gallery burst into joy.... But all the spectators who left the field before the end of the game were deprived of seeing this world-class goal with their own eyes... Since there is no video recording of this goal, the players of both teams present were the witnesses... The spectators and the referees and linesmen............
Now Indian football is full of all the great foreign footballers!!! But those of us who have seen Majid's games on TV or heard the commentary on the radio will never forget Majid's games, just like the first love of our lives!!