Aslam Mustafa Inamdar is an Indian Kabaddi player. In 2023, he represented India at the 19th Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China, where the Indian team won the gold medal. He took over the captaincy of Puneri Paltan team in the tenth season of Pro Kabaddi League.
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Wiki/Biography
Aslam Mustafa Inamdar was born on Wednesday, 23 February 2000 (age 24 years; as of 2024) in Taklibhan village, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 9″
Weight (Approx): 70 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Body Measurements (Approx): Chest: 40″, Waist: 34″, Biceps: 14″
Family
parents and siblings
Aslam Mustafa Inamdar’s father’s name is Baburao Inamdar. His father died in 2011. His mother, Lakshmibai Inamdar, worked as a domestic help.
Aslam with his mother
His elder brother, Wasim, also a Kabaddi player, first worked as a gardener and later got a job in the police department. His younger brother, Ahmed Mustafa Inamdar, is a Kabaddi player and made his debut in the tenth season of the PKL.
Aslam’s younger brother Ahmed Inamdar
Wife
Aslam Mustafa Inamdar is unmarried.
Religion
Aslam Mustafa Inamdar follows the religion of Islam.
aslam in the mosque
livelihood
Aslam Mustafa Inamdar started his career by playing Kabaddi at the local level and earned money through cash prizes. He then played his first sub-junior nationals for Maharashtra, after which he decided to move to a more prominent club, Jai Bajrang in Vasind city of Thane, on the advice of his seniors. At Jai Bajrang, he improved his skills and techniques and got the opportunity to work in Kabaddi with Union Bank and Air India. In an interview, while talking about how he progressed after joining Jai Bajrang Club, he said,
After that my life changed. I started playing good level tournaments and that’s where people noticed me.”
Aslam won state level tournament under Jai Bajrang Club
In 2018, Aslam Inamdar qualified to join Yuva Paltan, the youth academy of the Puneri Paltan team and he spent three years there before making a breakthrough in 2021 after being selected to play in the Pro Kabaddi League. He played in various state-level tournaments and led the youth platoon to victory.
Aslam shared an Instagram post about representing the youth platoon in the state level men’s professional Kabaddi tournament 2023
In 2021, Aslam Mustafa Inamdar made his debut in the Pro Kabaddi League as an all-rounder member of the Puneri Paltan team. He scored a total of 189 points for his team in his first season and became the highest raid points scorer for the Puneri Paltan team in the league matches of the eighth season of Pro Kabaddi League. In July 2022, he was a member of the silver medal-winning Maharashtra team at the 69th Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship. In the same year, he represented the Maharashtra team that won the silver medal in the 36th National Games held in Gujarat. In 2022, he was retained for Rs 20 lakh for the ninth season of the Pro Kabaddi League, in which he scored a total of 150 points for the team with a strike rate of 51% and a tackle strike rate of 35%. In October 2023, he made his Asian Games debut as a member of the Indian Kabaddi team, which won the gold medal in Hangzhou, China. The team won the final of the 19th Asian Games by defeating Iran in a thrilling match with a score of 33-29.
Aslam with the gold medal he won at the 2022 Asian Games
In 2023, he was once again retained by the Puneri Paltan team to play as an all-rounder and also captained Puneri Paltan in the tenth season of the Pro Kabaddi League.
bike collection
Aslam has a Royal Enfield.
Aslam with his bike
car collection
Aslam has a Tata Harrier car.
Aslam with his car
Favorite
- Kabaddi Player: Rakesh Kumar
Facts/General Knowledge
- Aslam Mustafa Inamdar worked at a tea shop before playing Kabaddi professionally. He comes from a lower-middle-class family and helped his family escape poverty after achieving success as a Kabaddi player.
- In 2014, he suffered an injury while playing in the Sub-Junior National Kabaddi Championship, injuring both the tibia and fibula bones of his right leg. He had to undergo surgery on his bones but he did not have enough money to do so. Three months later, a government scheme helped him get the operation done at a cheaper rate.
- His elder brother, Wasim, did not want him to play Kabaddi and concentrated on his studies, but Aslam practiced Kabaddi secretly and eventually managed to gain his brother’s support. Talking about his brother in an interview, he said,
Wasim was against it, so whenever he was not on the field, I would go and play. I would see him from a distance and run to the other side, jump the wall and go home. But finally he came to know when the seniors told him how good a player I was.
- He regularly works out at the gym and often posts his workout routines on his Instagram account.
- In national competitions, he plays with jersey number 3 as a member of the Maharashtra team.
Aslam posing with his jersey for the National Championship
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