Last one year Sandeep Singh has been in the news for all wrong reasons. His exclusion in the national team sparked many controversies. But the man in the muddle did not come out with his ...
Delhi-based Ajay Kumar Bansal is a grassroot coach. He found Dilip Tirkey at the Bhawani Shankar High School, Sundargah (Orissa) and many such jewels in the Air India Academy. A couple of under-16 title wins ...
Terry Walsh, the fearsome striker of Australian hockey in the 70s, discusses various aspects of Indian hockey with a freewheeling exclusive interview with the s2h. The former Malaysian and Netherlands’ coach is now Technical Director ...
When I met Els van Breda Vriesman in Kazan, Russia, on the penultimate day of the Women’s Olympic Qualifier, she looked very much disturbed. Willing to speak on every issue that the FIH has with ...
“Our players are not more skillful than the top Europeans” asserted Brigadier HJS Chimni, star of gold winning 1975 World Cup team. “Artificial turf is not the reason for our downfall”, thundered triple Olympic gold ...
FROM a little girl who took to goalkeeping because her mother thought ‘It was the safest position on a hockey field’ to becoming the blue-eyed girl of Indian women’s hockey, Helen Mary Innocent has come ...
Hockey was included in the Afro-Asian Games on 23rd May last year when the General Assembly of National Sports Committees met at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Despite having enormous time at its disposal, the ...
The first non-Olympian coach and perhaps the best one that Indian hockey has had so far, Cedric D’Souza is modest about his team winning the Prime Minister Cup at Dhaka recently. Refusing to go ha-ha ...
Indian girls led by 19-year old Mamta Kharab will be making their maiden entry into the Junior World Cup arena when the fourth edition commences on 14th of this month at Buenos Aires, Argentina. 55-year ...
Cedric D’Souza. A famous name in the international circuit. Equally adorned at home. It was therefore natural it was only time before he would be back where he belongs to – chief coach of Indian ...