Gurjinder Kumar

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Gurjinder Kumar
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Personal information
Date of birth (1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 (age 33)
Place of birth Nawanshahr, Punjab, India
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Position(s) Left back
Team information
Current team
 FC Pune City (on loan from Salgaocar)
Youth career
2001–2007 Chandigarh FA
2007–2010 Tata FA
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2014 Pune 84 (5)
2014– Salgaocar 18 (0)
2015 → FC Pune City (loan) 1 (0)
International career‡
2011 India U23 2 (0)
2012– India 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:00, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 07:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Gurjinder Kumar (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਜਿੰਦਰ ਕੁਮਾਰ; born 10 October 1990) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a Left back for Indian Super League club FC Pune City on loan from Salgaocar in the I-League. A right-footed player, he can also play as a midfielder and as a right back, which he played as during the 2013-14 Federation Cup.[1]

Career

Early career

Born in Nawanshahr, Punjab, Gurjinder was born into a family of footballers.[2] At the age of 10, after his older brother died, he started to take football seriously and joined the Chandigarh Football Academy.[2] After spending seven years there Kumar moved to the famed Tata Football Academy where he joined the academy senior side.[2]

Pune

In 2010, Gurjinder signed his first professional contract with Pune of the I-League.[2] He scored his first professional goal during his first season at the club on 26 February 2011 against Viva Kerala in which his 11th-minute goal put Pune into an early 2–0 lead.[3] The club eventually managed to get into a 4–0 lead but then gave up four goals to draw the match 4–4.[3] After the 2010–11 season, he was named the Pune's best under-23 player at the clubs annual awards ceremony.[2] Gurjinder was part of the team that played against the then Premier League side Blackburn Rovers on 7 October 2011, in a game that Blackburn won 3-0[4] He then scored his second career goal the next season against Viva Kerala again, in a match Pune managed to win 3–1.[5] Kumar then went on to score his third goal of his career, and his second that season, only a month later on 21 December 2011 against Churchill Brothers in which his 84th-minute strike helped Pune finish the match 2–0 winners.[6] His fourth goal of his career, and last for the season, came on 18 January 2012 against Mumbai in which he found the net in the 90th minute to finish a 3–0 victory for Pune.[7] Then after the 2011–12 season, he was given the "Goal of the Year" award for his strike against Chirag United Kerala.[8] He won the Ashok Piramal Group "Young Player of the Year" award for 2012–13 season.[9]

Gurjinder did not score again until the 2013–14 season when his goal against Rangdajied United on 11 December 2013 to give Pune a 2–0 lead which they would eventually give up and lose 3–2.[10]

Salgaocar

Gurjinder Kumar signed for Salgaocar for the 2014-15 I-League and made his debut in the 2014-15 Indian Federation Cup, scoring 3 times in the group stages.[11]

FC Pune City

In July 2015 Kumar was drafted to play for FC Pune City in the 2015 Indian Super League.[12]

International

In June 2011 Kumar made his international debut for India at the under-23 level against Qatar U23 side for the 2012 Olympic qualifiers.[2] Then on 1 February 2012 Kumar was called up to the senior India side for a preparation camp for the upcoming 2012 AFC Challenge Cup.[13] He then made his senior international debut for India on 27 February 2012 against Azerbaijan in a friendly in which he started and played the full 90 minutes as India lost 0–3.[14]

Career statistics

Club career stats

As of 22 June 2015[15]
Club Season League Federation Cup Durand Cup AFC Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Pune 2010–11 I-League 22 1 2 0 2 0 — — 26 1
2011–12 I-League 21 3 3 0 0 0 — — 24 3
2012–13 I-League 23 0 3 0 2 0 — — 28 0
2013–14 I-League 18 1 3 0 0 0 7 0 28 1
Salgaocar 2014–15 I-League 18 0 5 3 4 0 — — 27 3
Career total 102 6 15 3 8 0 7 0 132 9

International stats

As of 24 December 2013[16]
India national team
Year Apps Goals
2012 1 0
2013 4 0
Total 5 0

Honours

Individual

  • Pune's Best U-23 Player of the Year: 2010–11
  • Pune F.C. Goal of the Year: 2011–12
  • Ashok Piramal Group Young Player of the Year: 2012–13

References

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  4. ↑ http://punefc.com/friendly-pune-fc-0-3-blackburn-rovers/
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  11. ↑ http://int.soccerway.com/players/billy-davies/167226/
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  14. ↑ http://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/9110/Azerbaijan_India.html
  15. ↑ Gurjinder Kumar at Soccerway
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

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