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By Nandakumar Marar Mumbai: Talented sportspersons coming from tough backgrounds stay on course, reach their goal on the strength of self-belief. With the options away from sports very limited for these strugglers, the focus is ...
s2h Team On 29 September, 1986, South Korea upstaged giants India and Pakistan while striding towards Asian hockey supremacy, making nonsense of the prediction that the Asian Games competition was going to be a two-horse ...
Its with sadness we inform the untimely death of hockey buff 71-year old Ranjit Singh. He was an unofficial brand ambassador for Indian hockey in Europe. The famed player of Indian origin, who migrated to ...
“He comes to the ground on a bicycle but after the match always returns on the shoulders of the fans”. This is how a committed fan of hockey described the saga of Balbir Singh of ...
By Ranjit Dalvi Hockey should be developed wherever it is popular and has taken firm roots! Surprisingly India has failed to do this. This is the major reason for its downslide. With three consecutive Olympic ...
Text and Images K. Arumugam When I entered the sprawling National Stadium campus before it was renamed after the hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, it seemed I was late. The morning practice under the watchful eyes ...
By K. ARUMUGAM The year 1920 marked an important phase for Indian hockey. The Beighton Cup, the oldest trophy outside of Europe, had celebrated its silver jubilee early that year. Named after the donor of ...
It’s perhaps only a myth but it says much about the magical skills of Dhyan Chand, acclaimed as the best hockey player in history. A statue of ‘The Wizard’ in Vienna Austria, the story goes, depicted ...
Narender Kumar Gautam, like the tireless midfielder he was in his playing days, has nurtured hockey grassroots in Sonepat, Haryana, for almost 40 years. Reflecting on his role, the former Punjab State Electricity Board player, gives ...
Indian women’s hockey, under-performing for considerable time and underrated even longer, thought to be subdued and submerged by their male counterparts, seems to have broken from the shackles. Now, they are in the forefront, talked ...
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