Start of Hero Hockey World League Finals 2014

Schedule and Results // 2014-01-10

14:00	AUS		Warmup		BEL	Live
16:00	NED		Upcoming		ARG
18:00	GER		Upcoming		NZL
20:00	ENG		Upcoming		IND

2014-01-11

Teams

Argentina

Australia

Belgium

England

Germany

India

Netherlands

New Zealand

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Hockey players and fans holds rally for The Hockey Wizard Dhyan Chand Bharat Ratna

Hockey lovers in Delhi held a big protest and rally today appealing to the central government to confer the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna to hockey wizard Dhyan Chand posthumously

After the rally, the fans under the banner of One Thousand Hockey Legs and Hockey Citizen Group, submitted a letter and support letter to the prime minister to demand conferment of Bharat Ratna on Dhyan Chand. The rally was attended by Olympians,former hockey internationals Ashok Kumar and school kids.

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Schedule announced for Hero Hockey World League Final 2014

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) confirmed match schedule for the men’s Hockey Hockey World League Final, which takes place in New Delhi from 10-18 January 2014. 

The eight of the world's finest teams in action and is the culmination of a journey which began back in August 2012 when the first rounds of the competition were played.

Hero Hockey Hockey World League Final

The event features two pools of four followed by quarter-finals, semi-finals, classification and medal matches. Pool A will feature reigning Olympic Champions Germany alongside New Zealand, England and hosts nation India, while current World Champions Australia face the Netherlands, Belgium and Argentina in Pool B.

The Round-Robin pool phase will take place over three competition days between 10^th and 13^th January. Following the Round Robin, the teams will move into the crossover quarter-final phase, with the pool winners meeting the bottom team from the opposite pool. The #2 and #3 finishers will also face-off in the knock out quarter-final. From there, the winners move into semi-finals and the medal games, with the losing teams playing for placement.

The opening day of the tournament (Friday 10^th January) will feature all eight teams taking to the field. Two matches from Pool B will kick things off, with Australia and Belgium meeting at 1400 (UTC./ GMT +5:30) before Netherlands and Argentina go head to head at 1600. In Pool A, Germany take on New Zealand at 1800 ahead of the mouth-watering meeting between England and India at 2000.

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2 wins for India in Asian champion Trophy

Second match of India against Japan in Asian Champion Trophy at Doha Qatar.
India played well but misses so many golden chances, the first goal of the match comes from India through a penalty corner scored by Raghunath in 22nd min of the game a low drag flick beats Japanese goal keeper on the right post and till half time India were leading by one goal.
In second half the missing continue and golden chances going wasted one by one in between Japan scores a goal and scores are level 1-1 till 51th min when Chadi scores a goal for India and ones again India leading by 2-1.
In the 57th min India gets 3 rd penalty corner of the match and this time Raghunath didn't miss this opportunity to add one more goal on the board and in the end India beat Japan 3-1.
It's rest day tomorrow and then India will face Oman in there 3rd match.

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