Bibhash Lodh, BS News Agency: Bhaichung Bhutia's football career began at Tasi Memorial Academy in Tinkitam, Sikkim.....then from there he joined the boys club where his uncle Karma Bhutia was coaching....then Bhaichung was only 14 years old....in 1992, after performing exceptionally in the Subrata Cup tournament, Bhaichung came under the spotlight.....in 1993, Bhaskar Ganguly spotted Bhaichung from Sikkim and brought him to East Bengal.... Bhaichung Bhutia stepped into professional football....for various reasons, after 1992, Kuljit Singh..Chibujor..Uttam Mukherjee..Tauseef Jamal...Ranjit Saha...Priyagopal Goswami..Sandip Munshi...Sudeep Chakraborty left or were dropped from the East Bengal forward line....footballers like...appeared on the field in a flash A young hill boy named Bhaichung Bhutia... later he became famous as Pahari Biche... the little boy from Sikkim came to East Bengal and started his career... the then coach Shyamal Ghosh used to keep Bhaichung close like a valuable asset... after a season or two, Bhaichung slowly started making a name for himself... in 1998, while he was with East Bengal club, he received the Arjuna Award... he was the most successful player in the red and yellow jersey in winning the goal trophy..... he became a member of the National League and Federation Cup winning team wearing the red and yellow jersey...... PK Banerjee... the group of players all received the Padma Shri within 10-20 years of retirement..... only Bhaichung received the Padma Shri in the middle of his career when he was the captain of the Indian team........ he scored 279 goals in the first-class competition, more than half of which (148) were scored by Lal For the yellow.....he has 19 goals in derby matches (13 for East Bengal and 6 for Mohun Bagan)..He also scored the first official hat-trick for the derby wearing the red and yellow jersey......49 goals in the National League and I-League combined.....The biggest thing is that the highest scorer in the 100-year history of the red and yellow jersey is Baichung Bhutia...Strangely, there is no Indian footballer in second place, Nigerian Cheema Okeri.......
Scoring 42 goals in 107 matches for the country..winning 5 trophies and leading the country for 10 years, all this is as a Bengal player......