C.M. Chidanandan in his teenage, started playing football at Brothers Club in Kannur.
He was one of the early heroes of Kerala football. A fearsome forward who kept rival defences guessing, and back-lapping once in possession.
C.M. Chidanandan played for the State for four years between 1959 and 1962 before moving out of Kerala to join the Indian Army.
In between, he also played for Kolkata giant Mohun Bagan for one season in the company of greats like Chuni Goswami, Jarnail Singh, Mariappa Kempaiah, Arumanayagam and T. Abdul Rahman, before a bout of typhoid and an injury forced him to return home to Kannur.
And, through the following few years, he donned the colours of MRC-Wellingdon, prior to moving out of the Army and taking up several jobs, including one in the Gulf and, on retirement, settling down in Chennai.
He said, At the Brothers Club in Kannur where he started playing as a teenager, there was an internal league, with players divided into five teams. And these matches then used to draw crowds of more than 3,000 spectators. Now we seem to have a very small number of tournaments.
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