--- title: "Who has been conferred with the Best Sportsperson award by the Calcutta Sports Journalists Club?" description: "Who has been conferred with the Best Sportsperson award by the Calcutta Sports Journalists Club?" author: "Rahul Roi" published: 2019-05-05 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/52067/who-has-been-conferred-with-the-best-sportsperson-award-by-the-calcutta-sports-journalists-club category: "current affair" tags: ["sports", "current affair"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Who has been conferred with the Best Sportsperson award by the Calcutta Sports Journalists Club? Who has been conferred with the Best Sportsperson award by the Calcutta [Sports](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23590/youth-in-sports) Journalists Club? ## Answers ### Answer by UTKARSHA SINGHROUL **“Sunil Chhetri” the Captain of Indian [Football](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/47396/which-indian-footballer-was-awarded-with-padma-shri-in-1971) Team has been conferred with the Best Sportsperson Award by the Calcutta Sports Journalists Club.** ![Who has been conferred with the Best Sportsperson award by the Calcutta Sports Journalists Club?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/7f7545b4-22d8-42ce-9a8e-2e1c9927f4b9/images/b7ef056f-2f5f-4b3d-84e7-188ca461034f.jpeg)\ \ He plays as the **striker of the Indian Football Team** and plays the local league of **Indian Super League from the Bengaluru FC**. He is a top goal scorer of all time in the Indian National Team with 68 goals in 108 played matches. He started his **professional career at Mohun Bagan in the year 2002**. He guided team India towards winning the 2**007 Nehru Cup, 2009 Nehru Cup, the 2012 [Nehru Cup](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48190/which-team-won-the-finals-of-2009-nehru-cup-finals-of-2009) as well as the 2011 SAFF Championship.** He was even named as the **AIFF Player of the Year for a record of five times in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2017**. In **2011, he received [Arjuna Award](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48237/in-which-year-did-s-m-gavaskar-and-g-r-viswanath-win-arjuna-awards)** for his brilliant skills and leadership quality. **In 2019, he received the honour of being the [Padma Shri](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30637/who-was-the-first-indian-lady-actress-to-receive-the-padma-shri-award) Awardees’. In the same year on February 18, he became the first recipient of Football Ratna Award by the Delhi Football Association.** From 2008 to till now he played for numerous clubs and marked his presence with his talent in each club. On **April 14, 2010, he made his International Career debut for the Wizards in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup against Colorado Rapids in a qualifying game**. In that game he was out of the game with a yellow card at half-time. He was also named as the ‘Asian Icon’ on the eve of his 34th Birthday by the American Football Conference. **He is famous with a name of ‘Captain fantastic’ who scored the second highest number of goals in the International Matches of Football after the world famous [Christiano Ronaldo](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38346/will-messi-lose-his-dribbles-like-ronaldo-did-at-the-age-of-31-or-32).** --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/52067/who-has-been-conferred-with-the-best-sportsperson-award-by-the-calcutta-sports-journalists-club Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.