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Football legend PK Banerjee no more

Two-time Olympian was sole surviving goal-scorer of 1962 Asian Games gold medal winning team

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 12:38 PM Mar 21, 2020 IST

Kolkata, March 20

Legendary footballer PK Banerjee died at a city hospital on Friday after battling a chest infection for a long time, family sources said.

He was 83. He was on ventilator support in the intensive care unit of Medica Superspecialty Hospital for more than two weeks. Banerjee, who was admitted to the hospital on March 2, breathed his last at 12.40pm. Banerjee is survived by two daughters and brother Prasun Banerjee, who is a sitting TMC MP.

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