Puran Bahadur Thapa (28 July 1928 â 2014) was an Indian footballer who played for the India national team and the Services football team. He scored a hat-trick for the national team in a 3âÂÂ1 win against Pakistan in the 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament at the Eden Gardens. It was the second hat-trick by an Indian footballer post-independence in international football after Sheoo Mewalal. Thapa died in 2014.
Thapa was an officer in the Indian Army and represented the Gorkha Brigade and Services in the Santosh Trophy and domestic tournaments.
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