a beautiful blast from the past

[samb]

@James_Bhaand

This clip is from the PTV awards ceremony, 1986.

that other gentleman you mention is Hassan Sardar, the legendary center forward in the team that did the royal chitrol to all the world class teams in the late 70’s and early 80’s. That forward line consisted of, Sami, Haneef, Hassan, Manzoor, Kaleem.

And the reason for embarrassment is probably because just 2 years ago they had won a gold medal at the 1984 olympics, and then stood 11th out of 12 teams in the 1986 world cup (The performance that was made fun of in this program)

The 12th team was INDIA

thanks for the detailed explanation, JB bhai… much appreciated.

but didn’t Samiullah retire in 83 or 84? I watched his interview awhile back and I thought he said he retired in 84.