Bengaluru FC scripted history on Sunday after clinching Durand Cup 2022 trophy after beating Mumbai City FC 2-1 in the summit clash at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata. It was a memorable night for Bengaluru FC as they clinch the Durand Cup, Shimla Trophy and President’s Cup for the first time in their history. The Bengaluru club has performed well in Indian domestic competitions in recent times with title victories in I-League (2014 and 2016), Federation Cup (2015 and 2017), Super Cup (2018) and the Indian Super League (2019).
However, a video of Governor of West Bengal La. Ganesan Iyer pushing Sunil Chhetri for a photograph during a post-match presentation went viral on social media when the Bengaluru captain was receiving the Shimla Cup.
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Ganesan was present in the ceremony and standing behind when Chhetri received the trophy, the Indian football legends posed for the cameras after receiving the trophy as Ganesan was seen pushing Chhetri to get himself in the frame
The minister faced backlash from the sports fraternity and the fans on Twitter for his act.
Former India batter Robin Uthappa took to Twitter and wrote, “that’s just all sorts of wrong!! Sorry @chetrisunil11 you deserve so much better than this!!"
Congratulations to La Ganesan, Governor of West Bengal, for winning the Durand Cup 2022. pic.twitter.com/GiICyecRHb— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) September 18, 2022
Former batter Aakash Chopra also condemned the incident and wrote, “Disgraceful."
Disgraceful https://t.co/Tus6U5mKfA— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) September 19, 2022
Five seconds that show you everything that’s wrong with Indian sport. It’s seems that they won the Durand Cup, not Sunil Chhetri and Bengaluru FC! https://t.co/NdRsoKuKWK— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj) September 19, 2022
Sunil Chhetri vs Acting Governor of West BengalDurand 2022 Appearances: 7 – 0Durand 2022 Goals: 3 – 0Durand 2022 Minutes played: 573 – 0Photos with Durand 2022 Trophy: 1 – 13PadmaShri Awards: 1 – 0Number of days spent hiding from Police: 0 – 365#SunilChhetri pic.twitter.com/6BVZTY7NYd
— Debojyoti Sarkar (@djsarkar18) September 18, 2022
Historic!La Ganesan, Governor of West Bengal wins the ⚽ Durand Cup 2022.
Or atleast, that’s what this clip suggests #SunilChhetri pic.twitter.com/jqt0wqUGFM
— विनीत ठाकुर (@yep_vineet) September 19, 2022
Congratulations to La Ganesan, Governor of West Bengal, for winning the Durand Cup 2022. pic.twitter.com/GiICyecRHb— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) September 18, 2022
The same incident happened with Siva Sakthi Narayanan when he was receiving the President’s Cup during the presentation as West Bengal sports Aroop Biswas pushed him to get into the frame.
Hope you share this too pic.twitter.com/GXydhgZwXl— Bengali Guy (@Guy4rmBengal) September 19, 2022
Meanwhile, Siva Sakthi and Brazilian Alan Costa scored for the Bengaluru FC (BFC) winners while Apuia got the lone goal for Mumbai City FC (MCFC) in what was a fine display of end-to-end football.
Chhetri also had a couple of golden opportunities to score, once in the 69th minute, when his left-footed strike missed the target and then again in the 87th when he was one-on-one with the keeper, but Lachenpa was up to it and brought off a great save.
With six minutes of time added on, Mumbai did give it one final shot and Greg Stewart came close in the 94th minute, but his effort was also just wide.
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