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The India national football team represents India in men's international football and is governed by the All India Football Federation. The team, which is considered as the best team in South Asia , won two gold medals at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games while finishing fourth at the 1956 Summer Olympics .
The earliest evidence of coloured shirts used to identify football teams comes from early English public school football games, for example an image of Winchester College football from before 1840 is entitled "The commoners have red and the college boys blue jerseys" and such colours are mentioned again in a Bell's Life in London article of 1858.
The club was a founding member of the National Football League, the first nation-wide football league in India in 1996, which it has won 3 times since. [6] They have also won 8 Federation Cups , three Super Cups , a record 29 IFA Shield , the Kuladakanta Shield and MLA Cup [ note 1 ] titles, and 16 Durand Cup titles, making the club one of the ...
In the early 20th century when the Indian football was taking shape, India produced one of the best footballers from Asia at that time, Gostha Pal, who started playing professional football at the age of 16 in 1911 and was the first captain of Indian team. He was a skilled, tactful and composed defender of his time and considered as the best ...
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The first Indian team to achieve success was Sovabazar Club, which won the Trades Cup in 1892. [13] Mohun Bagan Athletic Club, which was set up in modern-day West Bengal in 1889, became famous in 1911 when it became the first Indian team to win the IFA Shield, a tournament previously won only by British teams based in India. [14]