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 Tuesday, 7-Sep-2010.

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Tanvir Dar

Munir Dar's younger brother, Tanvir was a robust full-back whose strikes in the short corner were as famous in his era s those of Floris Jan Bovelander in the '90s. Tanvir scored a high percentage of pakistan's goals in the '68 Olympics,in the '70 Asiad and also in the '71 World Cup, three of pakistan's most glorious triumphs Which completed pakistan's first Grand Slam.
What is more it is said had he not missed out the '72 Munich Olympics final due to recurrence of his unfortunate knee injury, pakistan may have retained the title with breath to spare.
It was not just raw power which brought Tanvir all those goars;he had an angular short and a quick arm action with all the power of his shoulder right behind . Injury brought Tanvir's brilliant career to a ratherpremature end and then further sickness took its toll to prevent him from taking any interest in the game .He eventually succumbed to a combination of diabetes and kidney failure and sadly expired at a rather young age on February 11 1998.

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