K. ARUMUGAM Reigning Olympic & World Cup champions Belgium is the most experienced team out of the sixteen for the Bhubaneswar-Rourkela 2023. Be it collective caps or most capped players in the team, Belgium stands ...
K. ARUMUGAM Governance issues dominated the first two World Cups that India hosted while the third one at Bhubaneswar was a smooth affair. However, the common thread of all the three (1981-82, 2010 & 2018) ...
K. ARUMUGAM Being the joint-proposers of the concept of World Cup for hockey, India and Pakistan got priority to host it; Pakistan the first India the third, The Netherlands for the intervening one. However, both ...
S2H TEAM New Delhi, 23 December 2022: India announced a strong, time tested and trusted squad under the leadership of Harmanpreet Singh for the home world cup that starts from 13th Jan. Anticipated return of ...
K. ARUMUGAM About two decades ago, I approached Barry John Dancer, then coaching the Australian Men’s national team, with draft of a coaching book written by a famous former Indian hockey great. He wanted foreword ...
s2h team 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Ali Sayeed is no more. He breathed his last on Saturday at his native place Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. He was suffering from old age related issues last ...
s2h team Indian women led ably by ebullient goalkeeper Savita Punia won the inaugural FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2022, hanging on to an early goal. Gurjit Kaur struck the solitary goal of the grand finale ...
K. ARUMUGAM “Semifinal is never going to be easy.” Savita often used to say, the latest one coming early in the year during the Asia Cup. At Muscat, it turned out to be prophetical as ...
K. ARUMUGAM Mighty Indian Railways fought hard and won the inaugural Sr Women’s Nehru Cup final over the Pritam Siwach Sports Foundation (PSSF) 2-1 on Saturday at the Shivaji Stadium in New Delhi. What of ...
K. ARUMUGAM During the 2010 World Cup, the then Foreign Minister of Australia (Stephen Smith) and Human Resources Minister of India (Kapil Sibal), jointly unveiled a trophy called Ajit Pal – Charlesworth Trophy. It was ...