Chand, a product of ANFA Academy, currently plays professional football from the Hindustan Aeronautic Limited, an I-League Club.[break
He was one among the five best foreign players to feature in the Indian top flight football in the last season. He is also one of the most reliable defender of the national team. The other contenders of the category were Mangal Tharu (athletics), Mahesh Chhetri (cricket), Shankar Yadav (ITF) and Jagdish karki (ITF).
Thapa is the captain of Nepali national cricket team and was declared the best batswomen during the ACC U-19 Cricket Tournament. The other nominees of the category were Yogmaya BK (ITF), Niru Thapa (football), Laxmi Thapa (karate) and Manisha Rawal (cricket).
Athlete Ashis Chaudhary of Dang won the best youth player while Nandakishor Barma of ITF got the best coach award. The other nominees of best player award were Rupesh Sharma (cricket), Saroj Pun (wushu), Irfan Ansari (Banke) and Babita Salami (football). Under coach´s category, Jamal Ansari (cricket), RC Subedi (gojurio karate), Bijuay Soni (wushu) and Rabindra Shrestha (football).
Similarly, Asiad bronze medalist Deepak Maharjan got the special award while cricketer Pradip Aire won the Far-western Region award. Bhojraj Shahi, the president of Oceanic Club got the motivation award. Life time achievement award went to Bishnuman Shrestha.
The winner of all eight categories bagged a purse of Rs 5,000 each along with trophies and certificates.
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