Which of the following Indian Football Club became country's first ever football club to feature on NASDAQ billboards in New York's Time Square on 29th July, 2020 ?

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Correct — C, Mohun Bagan. On 29 July 2020 — 'Mohun Bagan Day', which commemorates the club's historic 1911 IFA Shield victory — the Kolkata giant Mohun Bagan was featured on the NASDAQ billboard at Times Square, New York, becoming the first Indian football club (indeed the first Indian sports entity) to do so.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) East Bengal is Mohun Bagan's great Kolkata rival, but it was not the club featured on the NASDAQ Times Square billboard on 29 July 2020.  (b) Churchill Brothers (Goa) is an I-League club and had no part in the Times Square NASDAQ billboard feature.  (d) Bengaluru FC is a prominent Indian Super League club, but the first Indian football club on the NASDAQ billboard was Mohun Bagan, not Bengaluru FC.

Concept: Mohun Bagan, founded in 1889 in Kolkata, is one of India's oldest and most storied football clubs. Its 1911 IFA Shield triumph — beating the East Yorkshire Regiment — was celebrated as a nationalist milestone, and its anniversary, 29 July, is observed as 'Mohun Bagan Day'. In 2020 the club marked the occasion with a first-of-its-kind feature on the NASDAQ Times Square billboard.

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