THE TROPHY THAT CARRIES HIS NAME A football championship born in the 1970s.A legend whose name changed everything.And a trophy that now belongs to an entire state. Football has a…
The Olympic captain could have chased football fame. Instead, he returned home, became a doctor, served a young Nagaland and lived by a principle that mattered more to him than…
London, 1948. India was barely a year old. Its football team had never played at the Olympics. And at the head of it walked a Naga named Talimeren Ao. London.…
THE BOY FROM CHANGKI Long before he captained India at the Olympics, before Mohun Bagan, before the doctor, before the legend — Talimeren Ao was simply a boy from Changki…
A silver jubilee, 17 districts and a tournament carrying the name of one of Nagaland’s greatest sporting sons — Mokokchung is preparing for a Dr. T. Ao Trophy unlike any…
