MARZBAN PATEL ‘BAWA’
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Bawa is a selfless hockey promoter. He looks for talent among slum dwellers, drops outs from schools, and among kids from poor sections of society besides at schools and colleges. He continuously introduce the game to such kids and stand by them till they get a career out of hockey. Bawa has produced many players including many Olympians like Gavin Ferreira (Atlanta 1996), Jude Menezes (Sydney 2000), Viren Rasquinha ( Athens 2004) and Adrian Dsouza (Athens 2004) & Devinder Walmiki (Rio 2016). It is often gathered that he sold off his personal possessions to give young poor talented kids the chance to play hockey.
He was awarded Dronacharya in 2019, which was widely received and appreciated.
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It’s great work hockey life
Hats off to you sir . Amazing work and great personality. Its great to see influencee like him .
He deserves it.
Best wishes for future to find more talented players
Interesting good knowledge
Seems a great human being
Must be an wonderful person
He Such a great humanbeing , solute you BAWA🙏
The article is a good read; got many information
Its a good development for sports
Such a person is an Indian hockey player / We are proud of you Sir / I am surprised to think that great people like you still exist among us.
It’s good write up
Happy teachers day
Wonderful
Happy Teacher day sir