Singapore football icon N. Ganesan, creator of 'Kallang Roar', dies

N. Ganesan, who helmed the FAS from 1974 to 1981, is seen in this 1998 photo. - The Straits Times/Asia News Network

SINGAPORE: N. Ganesan, the Singapore football icon who was instrumental in creating the famous “Kallang Roar” in the late ’70s and ’80s, died on Wednesday morning. He was 82.

The former Football Association of Singapore chairman and lawyer had been recuperating at a nursing home off Bukit Timah Road after suffering from a stroke in 2011.

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