Arvind Narayan is a former football player from Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. He is best known for being one of the few players of Indian origin.

Narayan, along with Umesh Kaushal and Simran Singh, played with the All India Football Team in Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

, India during 2006. He has also trained in Japan with J-league outfits.

The All India Football Federation

All India Football Federation

The All India Football Federation is the organisation which manages the game of association football in India. It administers the running of the India national football team and also controls the I-League, India's premier domestic club competition, in addition to various other competitions and...

invited him to train with the under-20 national team in 2006.

He currently works with Libero Sports as a sports agent, and represents many members of the Indian National Football squad.