16/12/1920

Born M'bale, East Africa

Attended Saint Joseph's European High School, Bangalore

Started playing hockey as a wing-half

1942

Joined The Times of India

Runners-Up - First Division Bombay Hockey League

1943

Joined the Young Goans Football Club

1943 : Winners of the Nadkarni Cup

1944 : Winners of the Nadkarni Cup

1946 : Winners of the Nadkarni Cup

1943

Joined the Lusitanians Sports Club

1943 : Winners of the Provincial Cup

1943 : Winners of the Lewis Cup

1943 : Winners of the Willie Fernandes Trophy

1944

Assumed Captaincy of the Lusitanians Sports Club

1944 : Winners in the Aga Khan Trophy

1944 : Runners-up of the Willie Fernandes Trophy

1947 - 1948

East Africa Tour

Kampala ->  M'bale ->  Nakuru ->  Kissumu ->  Kitale ->  Eldoret ->  Mombassa ->  Zanzibar ->  Dar-Esalaam ->  Nairobi

1948

London Olympiad Tour

August          : London (England)

August 21      : Amsterdam (Holland)

August 22      : Brussels (Belgium)

August 23      : Paris (France)

August          : Berne (Switzerland)

August 29      : Prague (Czechoslovakia)

August          : London (England)

September 4  : Liverpool (Switzerland)

September 24 : Bombay (India)

1949

Afghanistan - Jashan Celebration

1952

Played soccer for Bombay

1954

Captained Bombay in the hockey nationals

1956

Left the Lusitanians Sports Club and played for Burma Shell

1968

Rejoined the Lusitanians Sports Club

Captained the team and got them promoted to the Senior League (after a lapse of four years)

1976

Was the selector of the Indian hockey team that won the International World Hockey Cup

February 12, 1988

Awarded The Bakshi Bahaddar Jiva Kerkar State Award For Excellence In Sports By The Government Of Goa

August 23, 1989

Passed away

Honoured by the City of Bombay

December 11, 1993

Inauguration of the Walter de Sousa Garden in Bombay

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Patrick de Sousa