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Ex-India football goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity passes away at 67

Maity represented India against Iraq during the 1978 Asian Games at Bangkok

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Former India goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity died at a Navi Mumbai hospital due to brain hemorrhage on Wednesday. Maity was 67 and is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. "He (Maity) passed away at around 6PM at the MGM hospital in Vashi following brain hemorrhage," his family friend Shashikant Prasad told PTI.

Maity represented India against Iraq during the 1978 Asian Games at Bangkok. He played for Maharashtra from 1975-1979 in the Santosh Trophy. He also played for Mafatlal Sports Club from 1974 80 and the Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers from 1981-82.

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