{"id":1815,"date":"2018-04-02T07:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T07:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/who-is-who\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T08:26:06","slug":"dr-talimeran-ao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/who-is-who\/sports\/dr-talimeran-ao.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr Talimeran Ao Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Talimeran Ao, the legendary sports persona was the first captain of Independent India&#8217;s Olympic Football team. He was born in the Naga village of Chanki,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/assam\/\">Assam<\/a>\u00a0(now in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/nagaland\/\">Nagaland<\/a>) in 1919. Son of Rev. Subongwati Ao, Dr Talimeran, started playing football from his school days.<\/p>\n<p>He completed his schooling from Impur Christian School and he was the captain of his school&#8217;s football team. He was awarded the &#8220;Best Footballer&#8221; title in the All Assam Inter School Football Championship,1937. He was appointed as the captain of his college football team in Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Talimeran Ao joined Mohun Bagan AC and stayed as a captain of the same from 1943-1952.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Talimeran Ao performed superbly in the Durand Cup final,1950 played between Mohun Bagan and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/maps\/hyderabad\/\">Hyderabad<\/a>\u00a0Police. In 1951, he played against some foreign teams namely, Philippines,France, Hongkong, Singapore, Burma and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>After his retirement from the Mohun Bagan AC, Talimeran Ao studied medicines at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata. Completing his MBBS, he went back to Nagaland.<\/p>\n<p>There he became the director of Nagaland Health Service in 1978. He is remembered for promoting sports in North-Eastern states of India.<\/p>\n<p>Mohun Bagan AC honoured him with the Mohun Bagan Ratna Award in 2002 for his achievements. In 1998, he died at the age of 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Talimeran Ao, the legendary sports persona was the first captain of Independent India&#8217;s Olympic [&#8230;]<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/who-is-who\/sports\/dr-talimeran-ao.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/who-is-who\/wp-content\/themes\/twocolumn\/images\/readmore-btn.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[437,225,184],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-dr-talimeran-ao","tag-footballer","tag-olympics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr Talimeran Ao : Biography, Profile, Records, Awards and Achievement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Talimeran Ao, the legendary sports persona was the first captain of Independent India&#039;s Olympic Football team. 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