Ashique Kuruniyan

Ashique Kuruniyan

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Ashique Kuruniyan Profile

  • Name:
  • Ashique Kuruniyan
  • Other Name:
  • Muhammad Ashique Kuruniyan
  • Born:
  • June 14, 1997

Ashique Kuruniyan Biography

Ashique Kuruniyan is an Indian professional footballer from Kerala who plays as a forward for Pune City in the Indian Super League. He is also a member of senior team, who joined recently in 2018. He has been a part of India U20 during 2017-2018. He is associated with professional matches since 2011, and has played for the Indian football clubs such as Pune F.C, Pune City and Villarreal C on loan in 2016–2017. He was signed by Pune city in 2017, and currently playing for this team.

 

Ashique Kuruniyan hails from Malappuram, Kerala. His father runs a shop and his mother is a homemaker. He is the 5th child to his parents. Born into a poor family, he dropped out of school while doing grade 8 and worked in his father’s sugarcane juice shop. In the evenings, after completing his job at father’s shop, he used to practise football with his friends. He got selected by Vision India, a scheme started by the Kerala Football Association, and later he was selected to Pune academy in 2014.

 

He was a member of newly formed FC Pune City Academy since 2016, and was signed on loan by Villarreal C in 2016. Due to a hamstring injury, he had to return from Spain, where he continued with playing football. Kuruniyan signed a professional contract with Pune City in 2017, and got retained for the next season as well. He made his professional debut for the club on 10 December 2017 against Jamshedpur. He made his international debut as a member of U20 in 2017. As of now he has appeared in 19 matches for Pune City since 2017.

Published: December 04, 2018

Updated: December 04, 2018

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