1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament

The India team arrived in Rangoon on 22 October 1953 and the Pakistan side, a week before. The Indian Express described the Aung San Stadium, where all matches were to be played, as having "concrete and semi permanent stands all around the ground" with a capacity of 30,000. The rules of the tournament had not made wearing boots mandatory.{{cite news |title=Indian Soccer Team in Rangoon |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rsw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6634%2C1617147 |access-date=13 May 2022 |work=The Indian Express |date=23 October 1953 |page=6 |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513065004/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rsw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6634,1617147 |url-status=live }} Four of India's players — Sailen Manna, Ahmed Khan, Pansanttom Venkatesh and M. Thangaraj (in the second half) — played bare-footed against Pakistan in the tournament's first game, on 23 October.{{cite news |title=India's Win |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sMw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C1770595 |access-date=13 May 2022 |work=The Indian Express |date=25 October 1953 |page=9 |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513054108/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sMw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C1770595 |url-status=live }}

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Azeez {{goal|47}}

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|goals1 = Venkatesh {{goal|?}}
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Ba Kyu {{goal|60}}

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Ismail {{goal|10||13}}
Gunaid {{goal|11|o.g.}}
Kutty {{goal|37||42}}

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• {{fbicon|Burma|1948}} Samuel Gordon

|3 goals=

• {{fbicon|PAK}} Ismail

|2 goals=

• {{fbicon|IND}} Ahmed Khan
• {{fbicon|IND}} Peter Thangaraj
• {{fbicon|IND}} Pansanttom Venkatesh
• {{fbicon|Burma|1948}} Ba Kyu
• {{fbicon|PAK}} Moideen Kutty

|1 goal=

• {{fbicon|IND}} Neville D'Souza
• {{fbicon|Ceylon|1951}} Ossen
• {{fbicon|Ceylon|1951}} Azeez
• {{fbicon|PAK}} Akbar Jan

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• {{flagicon|Ceylon|1951}} Gunaid (against Pakistan)

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