Sivasakthi Narayanan

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Sivasakthi Narayanan
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-07-09) 9 July 2001 (age 22)
Place of birth Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Bengaluru
Number 39
Youth career
2018–2020 Raman Vijayan Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2021 Bengaluru B 11 (15)
2021– Bengaluru 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 october 2022

Sivasakthi Narayanan (born 9 July 2001) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Bengaluru.[1]

Club career

Youth

Sivasakthi's youth career began when he was picked up by a local team during trials in Karaikudi.[1] Sivasakthi was scouted by Raman Vijan Soccer School and he was the top scorer in the 2018-19 season of Elite League with 22 goals for the club. He then joined Bengaluru FC's B team,[2] where he played for the club in the 2020-21 season of Bangalore Super Division league. He emerged as the top goal scorer after scoring a staggering 15 goals for the club, which includes two hat-tricks.[3][4][5]

Bengaluru FC

On 8 April 2021, Bengaluru FC announced their squad for their AFC Cup campaign, which saw the 20-year-old getting maiden call up for the senior team.[6] He made his senior team debut when he replaced Suresh Singh in the game against Bashundhara Kings at the group stage of 2021 AFC Cup.[7] He scored his first goal for Bengaluru, ten minutes after being substituted against Maziya S&RC.[8]

Personal life

Hailing from a football frenzy district of Karaikudi, Sivasakthi picked up football as an interest and went on to get selected for the trials held in his hometown, when he was in 7th grade at school. When he and his friends began to pick their favourite ISL teams, Sivasakthi chose to be a fan of Bengaluru FC.[1] Sivasakthi lost his father when he was young and is now survived by his mother, who according to Sivasakthi, raised and supported him to follow his passion. During the 2020-21 Bangalore Super Division season, Bengaluru FC B team's Head Coach, Sandesh Bhoite said that Sivasakthi is tall, lanky and has the kind of core strength that gets him past even the heaviest challenges.[1]

Career statistics

Club

As of 18 September 2022[9]
Club Season League Cup AFC Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Youth
Raman Vijayan
Soccer School 		2018–19 Indian Elite League 12 22 0 0 — 0 12 22
2019–20 12 17 0 0 — 0 12 17
Youth total 24 39 0 0 0 0 24 39
Senior career
Bengaluru B 2020–21 Bangalore Super Division 11 15 0 0 — 0 11 15
Bengaluru 2021–22 Indian Super League 7 0 5[a] 3 2[b] 1 14 4
2022–23 0 0 6[a] 5 0 0 6 5
Bengaluru total 7 0 11 8 2 1 20 9
Career total 18 15 11 8 2 1 31 24
  1. ^ a b Appearance(s) in Durand Cup
  2. ^ Appearance(s) in AFC Cup

Honours

Bengaluru

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Small town boy with big time dreams". Bengaluru FC. 6 February 2021.
  2. ^ "RVSS Product Sivasakthi Makes Dream BFC 'B' Debut". DT Next. 18 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Sivasakthi on song as blue Colts regain top spot". Bengaluru FC. 22 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Blue Colts reach summit with 8-1 rout of Income Tax". Bengaluru FC. 27 January 2021.
  5. ^ On fire, this boy.
  6. ^ "Blues announce 29-man squad for AFC Cup qualifiers". Bengaluru FC. 8 April 2021.
  7. ^ @bengalurufc (21 August 2021). "Final change for the blues..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ @bengalurufc (24 August 2021). "Quality Touch, Quality Finish!..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ Sivasakthi Narayanan at Soccerway
  10. ^ Narayan, Aaditya (19 September 2022). "Durand Cup 2022 review: The perfect curtain-raiser to the Indian football season". www.espn.in. Kolkata: ESPN. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.

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