Maurits Hendriks (Spain National Coach and formerly Holland coach): PHL is a very innovative concept and I am sure it can bring a lot of professionalism into Indian hockey and will change the way hockey ...
Our tour opener was an equal match, either team could have been the winner. The Kiwis played a patient and purposeful hockey all through. Thursday’s match, the first of our four planned Tests, was just ...
You hardly find Vikram Pillay without a smile on his face. Just as you seldom find him uninvolved with the action on the pitch. Clearly, the latest star from the hockey loving suburb of Khadki ...
Monday, the 17th March 2003. The Indian team bound for the Sultan Azlan Cup had just concluded their concluding training session at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi. It was a morning practise ...
The global governing body of the sport of field hockey, FIH, is known for introducing something on great wisdom and later discarding it with even greater wisdom. We have seen this trait rearing its ugly ...
It is everyone’s duty to support the national team. To start with, coaches should support their players, especially when their morale is down and results are not coming in their favour. The players, on their ...
It’s a heartening happening. A whiff of fresh air is sweeping across the shores of global hockey. The old order, so entrenched in their victory mould for decades, seems to be breaking. Hockey’s hitherto unheralded ...
Recently, IWHF sources expressed surprise that three of their nominees for the prestigious Arjuna award were not considered by the concerned Selection Committee. Careful watchers surprise, not at the government’s decision, but at the list ...
After an extended period of lull, Indian women hockey has finally started off from the block. An 18-member team, led by the most experienced of the lot — Surajlata Devi — left for Moscow from ...
Hockey was included in the Afro-Asian Games on 23rd May last year when the General Assembly of National Sports Committees met at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Despite having enormous time at its disposal, the ...