After a month of hectic hockey journalism, I sit in peace this week. What a month I had recently – which is professionally satisfying, if not profitable too. I wish to savour those events in ...
Last one year Sandeep Singh has been in the news for all wrong reasons. His exclusion in the national team sparked many controversies. But the man in the muddle did not come out with his ...
After India finished fourth and last at the recent 4-Nation at Perth, Australia, then coach Joaquim Carvalho made a distress call to the IHF and sought a replacement. He wanted hitherto unknown, but very well ...
So KPS Gill is now history. We can rejoice and relax but momentarily only. Does that then mean everything will be fine in Indian hockey? This is what we thought when former IHF presidents like ...
One of Sundargarh’s superb sons Ignace Tirkey makes a personal milestone, which needs wide celebration, but goes off silently. Hockey, many claim silently, is an illiterate’s game, though momentarily it appears an uncharitable comment. At ...
Many claim, erroneously of course, hockey is a not a statistical oriented sports. But, it has lot to offer only if one has an eye for it. One thing we often miss is the tireless ...
Delhi-based Ajay Kumar Bansal is a grassroot coach. He found Dilip Tirkey at the Bhawani Shankar High School, Sundargah (Orissa) and many such jewels in the Air India Academy. A couple of under-16 title wins ...
India’s penalty corner expert Sandeep Singh says he is ready to change his tacticks in the coming days so that his can be more lethal. Speaking to s2h while watching Pakistan-Argentina match on the third ...
Terry Walsh, the fearsome striker of Australian hockey in the 70s, discusses various aspects of Indian hockey with a freewheeling exclusive interview with the s2h. The former Malaysian and Netherlands’ coach is now Technical Director ...
Dear s2h visitors For long, we have been forced to focus more on politics and personalities who rivetted themselves to it. We have thus lost lot of energy on criticism, however genuine and unavoidable they ...