Eminent Hockey Players of India are worried about the future of Indian hockey.

Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) calls for a press conference in Delhi on Thursday 30th August.
IHF president announced to the media that they are ready to cooperate with Indian Olympic Association (IOA)  only if, in return they get to appoint independent members in committee which will solve the miss-understandings between IHF and Hockey India (HI).

IHF want Independent members in the committee, someone equal to a renowned Sports Person or a retired Judge of The Supreme Court, who are capable of taking wise and unbiased decisions. The current committee consists of G.S. Mander, who is also the vice-president of IOA, which disbanded IHF. Therefore this was the basic reason of IHF for not supporting IOA Committee.

The issue of indian team poor performane in london olympics also raised in press conference,  Dhanraj Pillay, M.P Ganesh, Joaquim Carvalho, M.P Singh, Romeo James, Rajpal Singh and Hrender Singh all the eminent hockey players of India are worried about the future of Indian hockey.

Harender Singh said that ' The indian team which played in olympic is not the real Indian Hockey team, its Hockey India team'. Also they questioned the selection of this particular team for Olympic.

'Some best player of India not selected in team just because they have played in world Series Hockey (WSH) of IHF and that effected the olympic team performance ' Dhanraj Pillay added.

Hockey India and International Hockey Fedration are responsible for the disastrous performance of Indian hockey team in Olympic, Federation of International Hockey (FIH) banned Indian player who played WSH and in other hand why did they not banned to the Pakistani hockey players who played in WSH and also went to Olympics as their team member.

WSH and IHF have also given the list of player who perform well in WSH to HI but they not pick any of them in olympic team, if they want India to perform well in olympic they should pic the best player of India no matter  they played WSH or not.
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Sports Day Special 'The Wizard'

'The Wizard' Dhyan 'Chand' Singh renowned center-forward, he is loved for his magical ball control, Chand played his Last international hockey  match in 1948, he scored more than 1000 goals during his hockey career. 

Born on the 29th of Aug 1905 at Prayag (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh to a Bais Rajput. His dad served the Native indian Military as a Subedar, known as Dhyan Singh, he had 2 bros known as Mool Singh and Roop Singh, Dhyan could not continue his study after 6th standard as his father used to shift from one place to another, before lastly deciding down completely at Jhansi.

The last days of Dhyan Chand were not very satisfied, as he was short of money and was poorly ignored by the country. He designed liver organ melanoma, and was sent to a common keep at the All Indian Institution of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He passed away on the 3rd of Dec 1979.

Chand won 3 Olympic silver awards (1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin) this was the era where India was dominant in the world hockey. and was granted the Padma Bhushan, India's third maximum individual honor, in 1956.He was the older brother of other gamer Roop Singh. 

Dhyan Chand  a legendary sportsman in Indian and world. His magical skills of hockey and control over dribbling the ball have been glorified in various sports stories.. Chand's birthday, August 29, is celebrated as indian  National Sports Day. The President of india  gives away sport awards at this day such as the (Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Dronacharya Award) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, India

India's highest sports award for lifetime achievement Award is the Dhyan Chand Award which has been awarded every year from 2002 to sportsman who  contribute to the sport  through their performance and also after their retirement. The National Stadium of  Delhi was renamed Dhyan Chand National Stadium in year 2002 in  Dyan Chand honour.

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HIL or WSH Players again in the dark because of fight between HI and IHF

Hockey India league (HIL) is a professional league for hockey competitors in Indian. It is organized by Hockey India. The competitors will be competitive among six franchisee-based, Teams  made up of Players  from Indian and around the world each franchise team will have 24 players, include 14 Indian players and 10 foreign players.

The entire occasion occurs on home and away base The federation of International Hockey (FIH) has approved the League and also offered a 30-day screen at the beginning of next year so that all top player from around the world can take part.

Hockey India signed a  five years agreement with  ESPN STAR sports broadcaster to  broadcast  Hockey India League (HIL). They will also cover Indian Hockey Team all international hockey test matches to be played in India.

Ric (Charlesworth) Invited  for coaching one of the six Teams in the upcoming Hockey India league, also Colin Batch, Terry Walsh and Mark Hager from  Australia and Dutch Coach  Roelant Oltmans considered for the coach’s job in the six-team  franchises event.

it’s a Hockey India league but it teams will be handled by private franchises. , the franchises will have full freedom to run  their Teams. .”Only two franchises have been sold so far out of six Lucknow team to Sahara India and other Jaypee Associates Punjab Team.

Every Indian Player has signed up with the WSH. The agreement is for three years and they cannot signed up with any other league , few player such as  Bharat Chhetri have already been sent lawful notice,Which indicates, at the end of the day, it will again be the gamers in the dark in the fight between HI and IHF

Hockey India need to understand is that we dont need to market hockey, it is already very popular. We only need to Perform well and win  major competitions to increase fan following.

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Junior Men’s National Hockey Championship 2012

Draining away the unfortunate times of Hockey in India, Hockey India brings a new ray of hope by conducting Second Hockey India Men’s Junior National Hockey Championship, 1 to 9 September 2012  to be held at Lucknow. 

Twenty seven (27)  teams are divided into 8 pools and the final will be played on 9th September 2012.

POOL  A, ASSAM, BENGAL, HARAYANA

POOL  B, MANIPUR, TRIPURA, ODISHA

POOL  C, CHHATTISGRAH, GUJARAT, PUNJAB

POOL  D, UTTAR PRADESH, DELHI, JHARKHAND

POOL  E, MAHARASHTRA, UTTARAKHAND, TAMIL NADU, S A I BHOPAL

POOL  F, M P H A, GOA, ANDHRA PRADESH

POOL  G, CHANDIGARH, KERALA, KARNATAKA, JAMMU & KASHMIR,

POOL  H,  HIMACHAL PRADESH, PUDICHERRY, BIHAR, RAJASTHAN

Click here to see Junior National Hockey Championship Schedule 

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India have lots of children who are so disciplined and wanted to start Hockey.

India have lot of talent in Hockey but need a Jeweler to identify and polish them.

Few corporate houses like J.P Group, Sahara, Mittals and many more are coming forward to promote Olympic Sports in India.

photo from One Thousand Hockey Legs, Jude Felix,
Stick for India Hockey and Surjit Hockey

India has lots of talented children who are so disciplined and wanting to start playing hockey.

Some NGO's like One Thousand Hockey Legs, Jude Felix Hockey, Stick for India Hockey, Surjit Hockey Society, Faith Hockey and many more are doing a great work to promote hockey in our country.They help children to develop their hockey skills from grass root level, that is from schools and colleges.

Today nearly 7000 children have joined such NGOs and train regularly, but sadly nothing like this is done by respective authority that run hockey in India.

Maybe in the future, India will be able to produce more world class hockey players through such initiative, which will benefit the standards of Indian hockey as well.

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Arjuna Award for Sardar Singh

India hockey vice-captain  Sardar Singh, nominated for the Arjuna award for his consistently good performance in Hockey for the last three years at the international level.

Photo of sardar Singh by Times of

He was also the Player of the Tournament  in the last three International tournaments Olympic Qualifying held at New Delhi,  21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cup held at Malaysia and Tri-Nation series at Spain this year 

He was also selected in The World XI hockey  team for  years in 2010 and 2011. 

The Arjuna Awards was first introduced in 1961 and Mr. Prithipal Singh were the first hockey player awarded.

The Awardee is given a scroll of honor,a statuette, ceremonial dress and cash award of Rs. 5,00,000 (5 Lakhs), by The President of India.

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Who should hold the power and run hockey in our country

Sports Minister Ajay maken with Hockey India Sectary Narender Batra
 and  Indian Hockey Federation President R.K Shetty.

Who should hold the power and run hockey in our country.The conclusion between these is now in the hands of a Committee of three.Will it be Hockey India (HI) or Indian Hockey Federation (IHF)?

The above mentioned team, consists of a chairman GS Mander, former president of Wrestling Federation of India with the other members, Birendra Prasad, president of Indian Weightlifting Federation and Secretary General of Handball Federation of India SM Bali.

The team will be meeting the two parties, Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation separately before the hearing on August 21. Both parties have to send a report by Aug 31 to IOA and FIH.

Some good players were not chosen for Olympics because they had played in World Hockey Series(WSH) and because of this India had the worst performance in the Olympics. It was the worst of all in the history of Indian Hockey. Winner of eight gold medals ending up at the bottom in London Olympic 2012.

IHF and HI should merge without any delay, to revive indian hockey and to regain the golden era of hockey in India.

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Endless Fight Between Two Hockey Federations

Endless Fight between Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation

Indian Hockey  v/s  Two Federation  

Two different bodies controlling Hockey in India, in 2008 International Hockey Federation (FIH) recognized Hockey India (HI) and Indian Hockey Federation (IHF).

While the two federations, Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federations remain headstrong in their stands and don't want to join hands therefore the players are left to choose their priority between them, the Indian  players or those on the national team are suffered the most.

The seniors hockey is dead and junior / sub-Junior hockey is no where, No one is looking at the future of Hockey in India, Grass roots hockey is disappear and School collages almost stop entertaining hockey.

Whether HI or IHF no one is working for hockey they only believes hockey is there Empire and they have obtained life-time rights, Finishing last at London Olympics HI and FIH not have a sport left for battle.

Indian hockey is already on its death bed and if this continues no one stops the death of hockey in India.

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It was a black day for Indian Hockey

 Black day for Indian Hockey

It was the first time that the eight-time Gold medalist finished Olympics without winning a match.

New Delhi, It was a black day for Indian  Hockey, with the eight-time Olympic champions finished  last in London Olympic 2012. it was the worst day for Indian  Hockey.It is our worst performance and there is no justification to it. Captain Bharat Chetri  has already apologised to the nation.When you lose the opening match,it becomes very difficult to make a comeback. That loss was crucial. We could never make a comeback from there on. We played well but only in patches.

Nobbs came down hard on the players for not giving their best. “We had a lot of expectations from the players, but they came a cropper. , Shivender Singht, Tushar khandekar  disappointed a lot. Even Sandeep Singh  was nowhere near his best.It was the first time that the eight-time Gold medalist finished Olympics without winning a match.

Sardar Singh said“We keep making the same mistakes in all matches and we have to improve a lot. It’s very disappointing. The whole team has been mentally affected,We have to be tough in the circle in future,It’s very disappointing finishing last”.

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India Hockey finishing first from bottom in London Olmpics

India Hockey finishing first from bottom in London Olympics.

I am totally agreed with Bharat Chetri what he said after India finishing first from the bottom 'we don't deserve to play in Olympic' Which  is true.

Now I am coming on our Olympic qualifier  hero Known as the fastest drag flickers in the world.sandeep Singh.I have never ever seen sandeep scoring a goal against top hockey nation like Germany ,Australia ,Holland last eight years.Now I come on second point Sandeep  always score more than 70 percents of his career goal against a lower ranking team like France. Canada. Italy etc.

Our Slute star Mr. shivender Singh I have seen  hardly he received the ball against top hockey nation that the reason why he is not seen during any game in Olympic.

All we need to change our hockey running authorities  they don't deserve. They only care about their ego not for country pride Now HI want 4 more years, what you have done in the last four year.

Indian best player who played WSH like Rajpal Singh , Arjun Hallapa , Prabjoot Singh , V.S Vinay, Bharat Chikhara  ,Roshan Minz and many more who deserve to play Olympic, and having more experience then this team, but they did not picked up because they have  played in  WSH. 

Pakistani Player also played WSH,Pakistan hockey federation  as well banned them for playing, but they know without taking best player of the country to Olympic they will not be able to do well without them. They changed ban into fine and picked  them for Olympic team.

Indian hockey running authorities don't want our nation team to perform well. They did not take back banns from our Sr players, If Ego comes second and Country comes first and i am sure the current scenario be different. 

I am Not a Writer or Journalist but my opinion is that don't try to change Indian style hockey try to  improve  our own style hockey, don't try to copy European style. our neighbor country Pakistan has done this in Olympic and they finish 7th without any foreign coach.

I wish Indian Hockey also try to improve what they have.

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EHL Top 10 Goals

EHL Top 10 Goal

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Jose Brasa v/s Micheal Nobbs

Jose Brasa v/s  Micheal Nobbs

Former Indian Coach Jose Brasa v/s current coach Nobbs

Group B of the Men's hockey - Netherlands (12pts) have qualified. Germany (9pts) have to beat the Kiwis to clinch their place. South Korea (6pts) hava fighting chance and need to beat the Netherlands and Germany need to lose to NZ. NZ & Belgium hav 4 pts each so even if India win their game vs Belgium they will end with only 3 pts and the bottom of the Group and thus will play for 11-12th place. Jose Brasa's team went into the 2010 World cup seeded 12th and finished 8th. Nobbs team went to the Olympics seeded 10th and will finish 11th/12th :( ... Those results should speak for themselves.

By: Preeti Pariat Mehta.

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India's schedule on day 9 :London Olympics

India's schedule on day 9 :London Olympics

1:30 PM	Shooting	Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification  Men’s 50 m Rifle 3 Possition Final 6:15 pm	GaganNarang
1:30 PM	Shooting	Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification Men’s 50 m Rifle 3 Possition Final 6:15 pm	SanjeevRajput
1:30 PM	Shooting	Men's Trap Qualification Day 2	Manavjit Singh Sandhu
2:30 PM	Athletics	Men's Discus Throw Qualification	VikasGowda
6:30 PM	Boxing	Women's Fly (51kg) Quarterfinals	Chungneijang Mery Kom
2:30 AM (07-Aug)	Boxing	Men's Middle (75kg) Quarterfinals	Vijender

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Lets Join Hand To bring Hockey back to the first place

Lets Join Hand To bring Hockey back to the first place

With great sorrow I will also have to say that the Game of Hockey is fading away from the minds and Hearts of Indians. Government and the Hockey federation must take the responsibility for the poor performance of the Indian Hockey team to which the Legend Dhyanchand belong. 

Indian players pose with the trophy on the victory podium after the men's field hockey match between India and France

I believe their are multiple reasons behind the recent unpopularity of Hockey among Indian youngsters and common people.

•  Cricket has overshadowed everything else as the sponsors and the spectators are only interested in cricket.
• The constant poor performances by Indian hockey team has made the fans turn away from the game.
• The corruption in all departments of Indian administration has gripped the Hockey federation and has degraded Indian Hockey.
• The class of people who play hockey and cricket are different. Most of the people who play hockey are from middle class or poor background. They take up playing hockey with a purpose of getting a job. 
• Most of the  parents encourage their children to take up cricket and rarely they encourage them to take up hockey or other game. Whereas in foriegn countries professionals like doctors and engineers also play hockey and other games as hobby.
• The corruption in all departments of Indian administration has gripped the Hockey federation and has degraded Indian Hockey.
• The Government of India doesn't really know how to handle sports.    

To bring up the team spirit we have to take some steps

Firstly, all players representing the nation at the International level championship should be paid equally. Let it be the players of Cricket, Hockey, Football or even the athletes. Everybody who represent India should be paid equally. If we make discrimination here, how can we expect the National team to perform well.

The most popular sport in India is Cricket because it is run by a private organization in a professional way. Yes, BCCI is a private organization. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. It is a "private club consortium". Similar governance is needed in hockey and other sports.

India has no dearth of talented coaches. Rajinder Singh Sr, Cedric Dsouza, MK Kaushik, Joachim Carvalho and Bhaskaran Vasudevan are some of the examples. We must have an Indian coach and new coach should be given the contract for four years ideally from Olympic to Olympic to develop a team.

Government should find some ways to make our National game once again popular and the game of the mass. 

Hockey also will become equivalent to cricket in the coming future. It only need lot of hands to lift it up. Team work can bring it back to the first place. Come let us all join hands for this cause.

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Indian Hockey team’s suffering at the Olympics Continued

India v/s Korea Olympic Match

London Olympic Indian hockey team’s suffering at the Olympics continued, as their 4th consecutive defeat against South Korea 4-1 in Group B of the Olympic men's hockey competition.

Leading the Korean charge was 25-year Drag Fliker Hyun Woo Nam with two strikes (59th, 70th) and Jong Hyun Jang (6th) and Seung Il Lee (68th) score in with one apiece while India's only goals scorer was Gurwinder Singh Chandi 10th minute a fine cross by Birthday Boy Dharamveer deflected into the Goal.

While  Netherlands and Germany are assured semi-final berths, India are out of medal contention and have to be content to play for Classification Match depend on their results against Belgium in their last league games.

As always, India's Team was all about reaction and individual abilities rather than any framework or plan in distinct comparison to the well-drilled Korean who epitomized group effort.
The Indian Team protection was regularly found flat-footed during the game while Indians managed to put together a few moves leading to a couple of penalty corners,but not able to convert any one of them.

South Korea began off on a excellent start with a goal in the instant 6th min. But Indian equalized in the 9th through Gurwinder Singh. After that rainfall came down at the Riverbank Field during the first half Both team level 1-1.

However, in the second half of the match, South Korea included two more goal while Indian did not able to convert chances into goal. Korea's third goal  came towards the end, in the 68th min. 4-1 embarrassing lose for the eight-time Olympic medalists Indian.

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India face experienced Korea today in Olympic,Watch Live 6:15 PM on DD Sports and ESPN

 India face experienced Korea today in Olympic Hockey

India v/s South Korea in London Olympic

 live 6:15 pm

A relatively young Indian hockey team will have to play out of their skin and avoid silly errors against a formidable South Korea here today in London Olympic. 

Have a look what team India got for India v/s South Korea hockey match  in forwards, India have Gurwinder Singh, Tushar Khandker, SK Uthappa, Dharamvir Singh and Danish Mujtaba as forward options. Most experienced from above mentioned forward players are Gurwinder Singh and Tushar Khandker. Tushar has played 219 matches in his career where as Gurwinder played 75.

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Expecting for a win against Korea in the London

India vs South Korea 

 Expecting for a win against Korea in the London,

After three straight defeats which have pushed it out of medal contention,The Indian Team will be hoping for a win against Asian rivals South Korea in the London Olympic Sunday.Korea started London Olympic with 2-0 win against New Zealand but stuttered with defeats to Germany and Belgium. 

India eight-time Olympic winners, who are making a return to the Games after missing China in 2008, are placed at underneath of Group B after failures to the Netherlands, New Zealand and Germany, and will only be playing in the classification matches, India have last two Group matches against the Koreans and Belgium.

India is the only teams not to have earned a point after three matches in Pool B of the men's hockey competition.
The Netherlands and Germany lead the table with nine points each from three successive wins, while South
Korea,New Zealand and Belgium are on three points after one victory and two loss.

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Coach Michael Nobbs has questioned the commitment of the players.

Coach Michael Nobbs has questioned the commitment of the players.

                    Coach Michael Nobbs

"We have got some players out there just wanting to be Olympians whereas international hockey demands heart for a fight. There is nothing bigger than heart of a volunteer," said Nobbs after 2-5 defeat by Germany Friday.

"We did not play our natural game in the first half. They boys perhaps got overawed by the Dutch team instead of playing their game," Nobbs said at the post-match press conference. 

“We’ve got some players out there just wanting to be Olympians, but international hockey demands heart for a fight,” Nobbs said as India brace for their next game against Asian opponents South Korea on Sunday.

“The players need to make a decision whether they are satisfied just to be Olympians and return home, or are they willing to be tough and make that commitment for the team’s cause,” 

The coach said until and unless the players take up challenges, Indian hockey will continue to suffer.

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