Tsering Dhundup

Tsering Dhundup
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-02-21) 21 February 1982
Place of birth Mundgod, India
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007– Tibet

Tsering Dhundup (born February 21st, 1982) is a Tibetan football player and political activist from Dehradun. The midfielder plays for the Tibet national football team since 2007. Dhundup is top scorer since the 6-0 victory of Tibet against Delhi XI, on August 4th, 2007, since the foundation of the Tibetan team in 1999.

Dhundup is spokesperson of the Tibetan Youth Congress.[1] In February 2008, Dhundup was arrested at the UN funded Tibetan Reception Centre in Kathmandu. He was held in a cell by the Nepalese immigration department, before being handed back to the Chinese authorities, at the Tibet-Nepal border at Tatopani. Exiled Tibetans and supporters have demanded his release.[2]

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