Author: stick2hockey

K. ARUMUGAM India qualified for the 2022 World Cup after it made it to the semifinal of the ongoing Asia Cup in Muscat, Oman. Having defeated both South Eastern Asian teams, Malaysia in the opener ...

K. ARUMUGAM I think it is fairly even game. We took our chances. These games are always close, and could take our chances. This was basically the difference between two sides today Is the early ...

K. ARUMUGAM India are the top seeded team among the eight Asian teams assembled here to either win the Cup – or achieving the another objective of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup. However, the ...

It was mainly the two defenders – Yu Asai and Shikori Oikawa – who stood between India and their effort to enter the scoreboard in the crucial second match of the Pool A at Qaboos ...

K. ARUMUGAM COVID times are different and strange too. One incident that occurred recently proves it perfectly – and go beyond.  Japan’s new women’s chief coach, appointed after the Tokyo Olympics, is still to enter ...

K. ARUMUGAM “We are a new bunch of players with huge potential to do well on international scene”. This is how Japan’s new chief coach New Zealander Jude Menezes described about his team that will ...

K. ARUMUGAM Tokyo Olympics’ hat-trick star Vandana Katariya is the most capped player in the forthcoming Asia Cup, all set to start in two days’ time in Muscat, Oman.  With 249 caps to her credit, ...

K. ARUMUGAM Active life span of hockey players in the synthetic turf era is increasingly coming down. However, some players with their commitment and eye on fitness defy the norm. In Indian women’s hockey sphere, ...

K. ARUMUGAM India mooted the formation of an Asian Hockey Association for women in the early 1960s and emphasized the need for one during the 1962 international tournament in Ahmedabad. Soon, as a follow up, ...