Author: stick2hockey
K. ARUMUGAM Numbers don’t lie if properly understood. A solid example of this truism is the numbers associated with India’s Olympic history which this article wishes to address. India has taken part 21 out of ...
England and Great Britain forward Sam Ward provides a whole new dimension to the Olympic credo of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”. In November 2019, playing an Olympic qualifier against Malaysia, Ward on a hat-trick got struck ...
Bengaluru, 05 July 2021: Indian Olympic Association has named field hockey national team’s captain Manpreet Singh has been named joint flag bearer of the Indian contingent for the opening ceremony on 23 July at the ...
K. ARUMUGAM TRIVIA: MP Ganesh is the eighth hockey player to pen an autobiography “With hope in my heart and trust in God, I ran away from home to Jabalpur with Rs.25 as the allowance ...
A compact midfielder/forward, Jeroen Hertzberger more often than not is in the thick of action donning a Netherlands shirt, be it storming the rival citadel with bursts of speed, scoring from difficult angles, winning one-on-ones ...
K ARUMUGAM He weighed 75 kg, carried a heavy stick weighing 28 ounces. His bullet-like strikes sounded the backboards like thunderclaps. Weaponry and ferocity combined to make him a match-winner. He is Devinder Singh Garcha ...
Seve van Ass, a profusely talented midfielder/forward, has served The Netherlands for a decade and was undeterred by a horrific injury in a game for HGC against Amsterdam in 2013. Seve lost 10 teeth and ...
For Argentine fans, the image remains endearing. Augustin Mazzilli rolled the ball into an empty goal and then celebrated by sitting on the backboards in the 2016 Rio Olympic final against Belgium. With 16 seconds ...
When Argentina’s takes the pitch at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he will be 42 years old. His career longevity, the role of a goalkeeper notwithstanding, is phenomenal. Having made his international debut in 2001, Vivaldi ...
By MERVYN FERNANDIS The Olympic Games men’s hockey is always a close affair. Holland, Germany and Australia dominated in most of the competition for quite some time. Change was seen at the Rio Olympics 2016 ...
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