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Walter Luis de Sousa (16 December 1920 – 23 August 1989) was an Indian field hockey player. Walter was born in M'bale in East Africa where his father worked for the British government He returned to India as a young boy to pursue his education, which he did in Saint Josephs in Bangalore It was while he was a schoolboy in Bangalore that he started playing hockey. In the early 1940s he played for a club called the Bangalore Blues He then moved to Bombay and joined the Times Of India and played both hockey and soccer for them He subsequently joined the Lusitanians - a Goan hockey team that in years to come fielded several Olympians including fellow Olympians Leo Pinto, Maxi Vaz, Reggie Rodrigues and Amir Kumar, Walter represented India : 1947 - East Africa Tour 1948 - London Olympics 1949 - Jashan Celebration in Afghanistan He was also a keen soccer player and played for the Indian Cultural League (ICL) It was under his captaincy that the ICL won the FA Cup in Calcutta ==External links== * (''Walter de Sousa's pages on his family website'' ) * (Walter D'Souza's profile at databaseOlympics ) * (Profiles of eminent Goans, past and present ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter D'Souza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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