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.