Gaurav Bora (born 13 July 1998) is an Indian professional

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who plays as a defender for

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club

NorthEast United NorthEast United FC is an Indian professional football club based in Guwahati, Assam that competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. The club was founded on 13 April 2014 during the inaugural season of Indian Supe ...

Club career

Born in

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, Assam, Bora moved with his family to

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when he was younger. After playing for his school team, Bora was selected to be trained at the Baichung Bhutia Football School. Due to his good performance with the team, Bora was selected to represent the Delhi under-16 state team9 and was scouted to have a trial with

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. His trial was successful and Bora joined the Pune City Academy. In November 2017, Bora was loaned to

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of the

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. He made his professional debut for the club on 29 November 2017 against

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. He only played 26 minutes as Chennai City were defeated 3–0. After impressing the Chennai City coaching staff during the 2017–18 season, Bora was loaned back to the club the next season. During the 2018–19 season, Bora was moved by head coach Akbar Nawas from midfield to central defense, where he created a solid partnership with Roberto Eslava. On 9 March 2019, Bora scored a brace in Chennai City's last match of the season against Minerva Punjab which helped the club win their first ever

title, and Bora's first trophy.

Odisha

On 27 June 2019, it was announced that Bora had joined

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of the

. Bora then made his debut for the re-branded club i.e. Odisha FC, on 22 December 2019 against

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where he came on as a halftime substitute for Daniel Lalhlimpuia. The match eventually ended up as a 0–3 defeat for Odisha.

NorthEast United

On 25 August 2022, Gaurav joined

club

from

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for the upcoming season.

International

On 13 February 2019, Bora was called up to the India under-23 side which participated in the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers. He made his debut for the side in their first match of the qualifiers against Uzbekistan U23. He played the whole match as India U23 were defeated 2–0 and eventually failed to qualify.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

;Chennai City *

: 2018–19

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bora, Gaurav 1998 births Living people Footballers from Assam Footballers from Delhi Indian men's footballers FC Pune City players Chennai City FC players Odisha FC players NorthEast United FC players Men's association football defenders I-League players Indian Super League players India men's youth international footballers