Many jewels in this soccer club

Tajuddin Ali and his friends play ball in the morning; in the evening, they play with gold.
Meet the Tarun Sangha football club, which just finished runners-up in the Delhi soccer league. The team comprises adivasi boys, Muslims, Santals and Hindus, just like any other team. The unique thing is that most of them are also goldsmiths by vocation.
"Nine of our players work as goldsmiths in various jewellery shops in Karol Bagh," club secretary Bivash Maity told Times News Network on Wednesday. "But they simply love to play football. It's a passion for them," he adds. Thousands of poor families from West Bengal shifted to Delhi in search of jobs in the 80s. They could not, however, wean away their children from the soccer ball.
"We used to play in the Azmal Khan Park. We formed the Tarun Sangha in 1982. By 1987, we started playing in the Delhi league," Maity explains. This year, they entered the title round, where they lost to Indian Air Force 2-3 in a thrilling encounter. Over 10,000 people from Karol Bagh, representing the goldsmith fraternity, watched the game.
So what is your profession? "I am both a footballer and a jeweller," says Tajuddin, whose stabbing tackles keep many a rival forwards away. "I am equally comfortable in melting gold and kicking the ball."
"Yes, we play with gold," says Mohammed Josimuddin jocularly. "But it's not ours," he adds. They clearly don't want anybody to know about their financial status.
"There were times when all of our players used to be goldsmiths," Maity goes on. "The Santal Pargana, lal matir desh - Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia - used to be their homeland. Now we recruit some players from those villages," says Maity, who hails from Midnapore district."But even the recruits take to working on gold."