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Hugo Genestet spent a sleepless night on Monday after missing a penalty stroke for France against Spain. The award came towards the end of the match with the scores 1-1 in a crucial pool A ...
Ryul disappointed but China on verge of cross-overs Kim Sang Ryul, the venerable South Korean coaching China’s team which has been making waves at the 14th Men’s World Cup bore a dejected look even after ...
Extending the field to 16 nations from 12 at the Hockey World Cup had raised the danger of eventually gaining less from more. For several nations, the tournament for all practical purposes, would end in ...
Australia equaled a World Cup record with victory (3-0) over England in the World Cup in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. It brought the World No. 1 defending champions their 15th win in a row in the ...
Olympic champions Argentina reminded one that the making of champions very often means winning matches even when not playing well – at least by one’s own standards and targets. It happened on Thursday in the ...
One gets the feeling that taking on hosts India in their World Cup hockey opener before a vociferous partisan crowd isn’t quite the most daunting tasks South Africa are faced with. What the warriors of ...
Which is the greatest team in World Cup hockey history? It boils down to comparing the exploits of Pakistan and Australia in the 1982 and 2014 events respectively. Both teams made nonsense of the field ...
Siegfried Aikman, Japan’s Dutch coach of Surinamese origin, gazed at the blue artificial surface. His visage was grim but his eyes beamed with expectancy. He knew his team was right in it despite the odds ...
Japan’s victory over Malaysia in the 2018 Asian Games men’s hockey final could go well with a motivational speech on never giving in. The humdinger at the GBK Complex in Jakarta last Saturday wouldn’t be ...
After failing to book a direct flight to the Tokyo Olympics, India’s men’s and women’s teams will now have to take the turbulent route to the Japanese capital in 2020. It would entail two steps: ...
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