Category: Highlights

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, ...

K ARUMUGAM Savita Punia, captain of the Indian team that will defend the Women’s Asia Cup title in Muscat, makes two landmark achievements along with the leadership role – she is the first goalkeeper to ...

K. ARUMUGAM India organised the first Asian Women’s Hockey Championship in Delhi in 1968. Originally, ten Asian countries accepted the invitation of the All India Women Hockey Association. However, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea withdrew in ...

New Delhi, 12 January 2022: Sensational goalkeeper Savita, whose heroics in the Asia Cup final gave India the Asia Cup title five years ago, will now shoulder the responsibility of leading the team to defend ...