Anjan Bista
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| Full name | Anjan Bista | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hetauda, Nepal | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Armed Police Force Club | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 2011–14 | ANFA Academy | ||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Marbella United FC | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2015–16 | APF Club | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2013–14 | Nepal U-17 | 5 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2015– | Nepal U-20 | 4 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2016– | Nepal U-23 | 4 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2014– | Nepal | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 April 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 May 2017 |
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Anjan Bista (Nepali: अञ्जन) (born 1998) is a footballer from Nepal. He made his first appearance for the Nepal national football team on 31 October 2014. He has also played numerous times under the Nepalese u-17 team, including at the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship.
Bista has been a regular for the Nepalese junior Gurkhas. During the 2013 SAFF U-16 Championship semi-finals Bista scored a free-kick in a 5–1 win over Bangladesh. During the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship qualification Bista scored in a 2–0 victory over Bahrain, ending a six-year-long winning drought for the Nepali u-17 side. In the next game Bista scored the equalizing goal as Nepal came from 2–0 down to tie Iraq 2–2. Playing in the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship Bista started as Nepal scored a late equalizer to tie the match 1-1 against defending champions Uzbekistan. Bista was excellent in the next game against Kuwait, it was his early pressure that forced an own goal in the third minute, as well as it was Bista who was fouled in the box for the captain Bimal Magar to score the winning penalty.
In preparation for the 2015 SAFF U-19 Championship and the 2016 AFC U-19 Championship qualification campaign, Bista played in several friendlies in which he scored a hatrick against a senior Nepal Army Club earning a 4-2 victory. On the second match of the 2015 SAFF U-19 Championship, Bista converted a crucial penalty kick against Bangladesh. To which, the match was won 2:1. In the same tournament, Bista also scored a brace against Afghanistan in the semi-finals to register a 3:2 victory for Nepal sending the team into the finals. Nepal went on to win the final defeating India on penalty kicks.
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