Deepak Mondal

Deepak Mondal (2007)

Deepak Kumar Mondal ( born October 12, 1979 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand ) is an Indian football player. The defender plays for Mohun Bagan in Kolkata and the Indian National Team.

Already Mondals father played in Jamshedpur and a regional selection of Chota Nagpur football, so that Deepak Mondal came early with this sport into contact. He played for the Tata Football Academy from his hometown, the JCT Mills FC of Phagwara and 2001-2005 for the East Bengal Club in Kolkata, with which, in 2003 and 2004, Indian champion twice. In 2005, an injury threw him back; after nine months, he could make his comeback at his new club Mahindra United in the Mumbai Elite Division. In 2006 he became MU Indian champion and cup winner, followed by a move to Mohun Bagan, with whom he 2008 and 2009 regional championship won in the Calcutta Football League, in the national championship but could not win a title.

The defender is known as a hard-working player; him the attention and the instinct of a hunter is said to have. International Mondal made ​​for the first time in South Asia Championship 1999 attracted attention, which won India in that year. He was elected to India's Footballer of the Year 2002.