Soram Poirei Anganba Meitei (born 24 December 1992) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Super League Kerala club Thrissur Magic.
According to Soram Anganba he never was interested in football till 2002 and that it was his dad who got him into the game.[2] In 2004 Soram played for NCC Imphal in the Subroto Cup.[2] He was then selected into the Tata Football Academy in 2007 but could not get adjusted so he decided to move to the IFA Academy in West Bengal which is run by the Indian Football Association.[2] He then went back to Imphal to play for Thau FC in the Manipur A-Division.[2] He also played for the Manipur football team at the BC Roy Trophy (an under-19 tournament) in 2009 and 2010.[2] He then joined Pune as a youth player till 2011.[2]
In the summer of 2011 Anganba signed for newly promoted I-League club Shillong Lajong.[3] He made his professional debut for Shillong Lajong in the I-League against his former club Pune on 22 October 2011. The match ended 0–0.[4] On 17 December 2011 Anganba was sent off for a tackle on Lalrindika Ralte against Churchill Brothers in the I-League which led to a penalty for Churchill Brothers and in the end, a 6–0 defeat for Shillong Lajong at the hands of Churchill Brothers.[5]
On 12 August 2012 it was announced that Soram would join fellow I-League side Pailan Arrows.[6] He then made his debut for the club on 19 September 2012 against Dempo during the 2012 Indian Federation Cup in which he managed to keep a clean-sheet till the 60th minute when Dempo scored through Clifford Miranda; in the end Pailan drew the match 1–1.[7] He kept his first clean-sheet in his Pailan Arrows career on 28 October 2012 against Shillong Lajong, his former club, in a match that ended 0–0.[8] He then helped Pailan keep another clean-sheet in the next match against United Sikkim in another match that ended 0–0.[9]
On 29 August 2013 it was confirmed that Pailan Arrows would be disbanded by the All India Football Federation after the club could not find a sponsor, thus meaning that Anganba became a free agent.[10]
On 13 December 2013 it was announced that Anganba had signed on loan for new direct-entry I-League side Bengaluru FC for the rest of the season.[11] He then made his debut for Bengaluru FC on 15 December 2013 against East Bengal in which he played the whole 90 minutes but conceded two goals as Bengaluru FC fell 2–0.[12]
On 22 February 2012 it was announced that Anganba was selected into the initial 68-man selection for the India U23 team in preparation for the 2014 AFC U22 Asian Cup qualifiers.[14] On 16 May 2012 he was selected as part of the 30-man squad that would participate in the preparation camp for the qualifiers.[15] It was then confirmed that Anganba was selected into the final 23-man squad for the qualifiers but as a back-up along with Ravi Kumar to Gurpreet Singh Sandhu who was named vice-captain.[16]
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| Club | Season | League | Cup | AFC | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Shillong Lajong | 2011–12 | I-League | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | |
| Pailan Arrows | 2012–13 | 18 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | — | 19 | 0 | ||
| Bengaluru (loan) |
2013–14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||
| Bengaluru | 2014–15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bengaluru total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Aizawl | 2015–16 | I-League | 7 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | |
| Delhi Dynamos | 2016 | Indian Super League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | |
| DSK Shivajians (loan) |
2016–17 | I-League | 7 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | |
| Mohun Bagan | 2017–18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| ATK (loan) |
2017–18 | Indian Super League | 5 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | |
| Bengaluru | 2018–19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| NorthEast United | 2019–20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| TRAU | 2020–21 | I-League | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | |
| NEROCA | 2022–23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 72 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 0 | ||
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