New Delhi: Syed Shahid Jakim, a former Indian soccer player and the last national team member who played at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died on Sunday at a hospital in Gulbarga, a family source said.
Judge ‘Saab’ because he was known to be popular, 82 years old at his death.
He recently suffered a stroke after that he was hospitalized in Gulbarga.
In relation to more than five decades with Indian football, the Judge, a Dronacharya Awardee, has also become an assistant coach until the end of PK Banerjee during the 1982 Asian match in Delhi and also independently responsible for the national team during the tournament in Independence.
At the domestic level, the best hour when the coach came when he guided Mahindra & Mahindra (now Mahindra United) to the Durand Cup title in 1988, beating the Tangguh East Bengal team.
He also trained Salgaocar and his last training assignment was the last with Bengal Mumbai FC in 2004-05.
He has been the international referee FIFA Badge holder who has been inaugurated in the Asian club’s Cup game and is also given with a prestigious Dhyan Chand award.
A former squadron leader of the Indian Air Force, the judge is also a regional director of the Indian Sports Authority and his last assignment is as director of the project responsible for the scouting before the U-17 World Cup FIFA 2017.
In the time of play, he is the Central Midfielder but will always regret The fact that he did not get time to play during the 1960 Romans Olympics where the team coach happened to his own father Syed Abdul Rahim.
It is believed that the judge was rather unlucky that he could not play the game in Rome and then missed choices when Indian football had the best hours in the Asian game in 1962, winning a gold medal.
According to the old timer, the judge was “half back” which was decent but not in the Bahadur Ram League, Mariappa Kempaiiah, Prashanta Sinha or Franco, who was in the era of players who were better than him.
During the late 1950s until the mid-60s Indian football team was played in the “System of two and a half” and therefore mentioned above four at some point always wrapped him during a larger tournament.
Legends said that before the final league match of India against Peru, Chunni Goswami’s best soccer player had asked the womb Saab to consider judges because India seemed to have lost Hungary and France, Chuni Da said that since Ram Bahadur had a holiday against France, why the coach did not give Judge, who was rejected by the player’s father politely.
However, Judge Saab remains a respected figure in Indian football for the number of hats he listened to for years.