31st October, Jalandhar: Delhi in the semis of the National Hockey Championship? Either we should be kidding or living in the 60s or 70s to think so. But it is true now. In an otherwise ...
The ‘Souvenir Program’ brought out by Deutsche Hockey Agentur on the eve of Monchengladbach Men’s World Cup is not a run of the mill stuff. It is refreshing, painstaking endeavour and pleasingly laid out with ...
Argentine superstar Luciana Aymar collected her record third WorldHockey Women’s Player of the Year award in Canberra this afternoon. This was the eighth time the International Hockey Federation has presented the WorldHockey Player of the ...
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 ...