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Australian coach for Indian hockey girls NEW DELHI: The wait for a foreign coach for the Indian women’s team is finally over. Neil Hawgood, a former Australian striker and a member of the 1986 World ...

Sandeep aims to score in every game India’s star drag-flicker Sandeep Singh has set a personal target of scoring in every game at the London Olympics and hopes to make up for the disappointment of ...

Sahara to own hockey franchise Sahara India Pariwar, one of the major sponsors of Indian hockey, has announced that it will own one of the six franchises of the proposed Hockey India League. “By taking ...

Neil Hawgood to coach women’s team Principal Correspondent Australian Olympian Neil Hawgood has taken over as the head coach of the Indian women’s hockey team. According to Hockey India (HI) Secretary-General Narinder Batra, even though ...

Chetri prepared to lead Indian Hockey team at London 2012 He was part of the squad that failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics, hence Bharat Chetri has special motivation to excel at the upcoming ...

Hockey — injury worries for India Seasoned defender Ignace Tirkey’s sprained ankle and star midfielder Sardara Singh’s injured shin has left the Indian hockey team management worried ahead of the Olympic Games starting on July ...

Nobbs looks at positives from dismal Euro tour India’s hockey coach Michael Nobbs said on Saturday that the team’s poor performance during its European tour was just a learning process ahead of the 2012 London ...

Top-four finish will be a miracle, say ex-players Zafar Iqbal was impressed with the improvement Indian hockey has made under Micheal Nobbs but feels it would be too premature to expect a podium finish in ...

Bullet-drama Sandeep Singh feared for Indian hockey future Bullet-drama Sandeep Singh feared for Indian hockey future “If we didn’t qualify this time, Indian hockey could have stopped like the dinosaur,” said star drag flicker Sandeep. ...

MUMBAI: The infighting in the Mumbai Hockey Association (MHA) came to the fore on Wednesday when a host of Olympians, World Cuppers and ex-internationals, led by Dhanraj Pillay, met Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar ...