Anwar Ali (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anwar Ali | ||
| Date of birth | 24 September 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Rurka Kalan, Punjab, India | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre Back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Kingfisher East Bengal | ||
| Number | 50 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Rurka Kalan Academy | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Punjab Police | |||
| 2005–2009 | JCT | ||
| 2009–2010 | Dempo | ||
| 2010–2012 | Mohun Bagan | ||
| 2012–2013 | United Sikkim | 23 | (2) |
| 2013–2014 | Mumbai | 23 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Delhi Dynamos | 17 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Mohun Bagan (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2016 | Mumbai | 9 | (0) |
| 2016 | Mumbai City | 14 | (0) |
| 2017– | East Bengal F.C. | 5 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2012 | India | 33 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 December 2016 |
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Anwar Ali is an Indian footballer, currently playing for Mumbai FC in the I-league as a centre back.
Anwar joined the Rurka Kalan Academy of his village, which is about 30 kilometers away from the city of Jalandhar when he was in school. Initially he used to play as a right-back for his school, DAV Jalandhar and impressed the national team scouts in the 2002 sub-junior nationals. Anwar was part of the 2004 Punjab Santosh Trophy team that lost to Kerala in the final; the same year he joined Punjab Police.
Joga Singh, assistant coach of Punjab Police, recognized Anwar's potential to play as a central defender because of his height, strong physique and strength in the air. From then on Anwar would start playing as a central defender and in 2005, he realized his dream of signing for JCT. The 2006–07 season would turn out to be a very important season in Anwar’s career as it was in this campaign that he really came into the limelight. He was adjudged as the most promising footballer of the 2006 Durand Cup, where JCT reached the final and narrowly lost to Dempo. In the National League (now I-League), Anwar was one of the best defenders and his performances played a crucial role in JCT’s runner-up finish.
Ali signed with Dempo for the 2009-10 I-League season and was a regular for his team, featuring 18 times during the league but left at the end of the season.
Anwar signed with Mohun Bagan for the 2010-11 I-League season and before the 2011 Asian Cup. Anwar had an impressive season, featuring 25 times at the heart of the defense for the Mariners.
Ali signed for United Sikkim of the I-League in 2012.
On 28 January, he scored with a superb scissors kick from an Ashish Chettri free kick against Pailan Arrows at Kalyani, West Bengal and gave the visitors the lead on the 74th minute, though substitute Tirthankar Sarkar equalized 6 minutes later to ensure level-pegging.
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