Career
He played as a midfielder. Ghafoor was also a former captain of the Pakistan national football team Ghafoor was nicknamed the "Pakistani Pele" and "Black Pearl of Pakistan".
Ghafoor was part of Pakistan national football team setup when it was in the top 10 teams of Asia.
According to The Express Tribune, he was "the last man alive from the days when the Pakistan football team was good enough to beat Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates and China – a far cry from the state of affairs right now.". career Ghafoor played in Dhaka in the 1960s and before that, he represented Mohammedan Sporting (Mediterranean Shipping Company) in the Calcutta League, India and Karachi League, Pakistan. Ghafoor died in Lyari, Karachi after a prolonged battle with paralysis and disease as a poor broken manitoba