Chuni Goswami: Indian football's first poster boy and a complete athlete

Chuni Goswami was everything that any sportsperson would aspire to be.

But only a few can claim to be blessed with the natural all-round talent which placed him among the pantheons of India's biggest sporting icons.
 
The former Indian skipper, who was popularly known as 'Chuni' Goswami, died on Thursday due to cardiac arrest at the age of 82 in Kolkata, West Bengal.
 
A strapping six-footer with a lithe body, the last gold medal winning Indian football skipper, an Olympian and a distinguished first-class cricket captain, who finds a mention in Sir Gary Sobers' memoir, Subimal Goswami