Abdul Wahid Durrani

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Abdul Wahid Durrani
Personal information

Full name	Abdul Wahid Khan Durrani
Date of birth	(1917-06-30)30 June 1917
Place of birth	Quetta, British India
Date of death	24 February 2008(2008-02-24) (aged 90)
Place of death	Quetta, Pakistan
Position(s)	Forward
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1950–1952	Pakistan	??	(??)
Managerial career
1955	Pakistan

Abdul Wahid Khan Durrani (Urdu, Pashto: عبدالوحید درانی; 30 June 1917 – 24 February 2008)^{[citation needed]} was a Pakistani international footballer and manager. He became the second footballer to captain the Pakistan national football team after the goalkeeper Osman Jan.^[1]

Playing career

Durrani made his debut in Pakistan's first ever international match in 27 October 1950 against Iran in the Amjadiyeh Stadium in Teheran.^[2]^[3] He later became captain of the Pakistan national football team in the 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament,^[1] where he scored a goal against Ceylon.^[4] He also captained the side in friendly home matches against Iran.^[1] Pakistan played its first match against India after victories over Ceylon and Burma, which ended in a goalless draw and emerged as joint winners of the tournament after finishing with the same points in the table.^[4]

Managerial career

Abdul Wahid was appointed as the manager of the Pakistan international team in the fourth 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament held in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).^[1]

Personal life

During the violence of the partition of British India, Abdul Wahid Durrani provided burqas to Hindu men and women who had sought refuge in his home in Quetta, and escorted them to the station, effectively saving their lives.^[5] In the bordering North-West Frontier Province, local people protected whole villages of Hindu and Sikh communities, where some still live today.^[5]

Career statistics

International goals

Note: Exact figures of Pakistani players before 1989 are not yet known and yet to be researched. Below are goals recorded.

List of international goals scored by Abdul Wahid Durrani
No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	18 March 1952	Colombo Oval, Colombo, Ceylon	Ceylon		2–0	1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	^[4]

Honours

Pakistan

Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament:^[4]^[6] 1952

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ahsan, Ali (23 December 2010). "A history of football in Pakistan — Part I". DAWN.com. Archived from the original on 5 April 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ "Pakistan Tour of Iran and Iraq 1950". www.rsssf.org. Archived from the original on 21 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ "Statistics: Iran [ Team Melli]". teammelli.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Asian Quadrangular Tournament (Colombo Cup) 1952–1955". rsssf.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "BBC World Service | World Agenda – Separate Lives". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2023. Among the fighting, there were incidences where community feeling endured. Abdul Wahid Durrani was a young sportsman in 1947. He remembers how, during the violence in the southern Pakistan city of Quetta, where he lived, he provided burqas to Hindu men and women who had sought refuge in his home, and escorted them to the station, effectively saving their lives.
^ "The Indian National Team at the Colombo Cup". indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 13 June 2003. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

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