K. ARUMUGAM Getting selected for the Olympics even once is a dream for any player. If one gets into the Olympics team twice is in itself a feat. Third is definitely a leap into history ...
K. ARUMUGAM Former Indian hockey goalkeeper Arvind Chhabra’s career is essentially one of how frequently he got injured — on and off the field in equal measure — and then how he overcame those tenuous ...
Bengaluru, 28 May 2021: Indian hockey defender Jarmanpreet Singh, who has been training at the Sports Authority of India (SAI), Centre in Bengaluru as part of the Men’s Senior Core Group, feels mental fitness is as important as ...
K. ARUMUGAM His was an interesting arrival to Kolkata. When he landed in the City of Joy, the football season was just over and that of hockey was about to begin. But Bir Bahadur Chetri’s ...
Bengaluru, 22 May 2021: For Indian men’s team midfielder Jaskaran Singh, his childhood memories are all about hockey. Hockey is in Jaskaran’s blood. He is the son of Hockey Olympian and former India coach Rajinder Singh ...
ERROL D’CRUZ Marcellus Gomes’ memoirs of his hockey-playing heyday include several painful moments. A mouth injury cost him a tooth and resulted in stitches to the gums, lip and an eyebrow. Another blow called for ...
By ERROL D’CRUZ Jaskaran Singh blossoming in the India team has warmed the cockles of a former international – Rajinder Singh Chauhan, his father. Recently, the 26-year-old got on to the score sheet in the ...
By ERROL D’CRUZ When in primary school, Harcharan Singh won a soap case as first prize in an athletics meet. He reached home and excitedly showed it to his mother. “After winning a first prize ...
India won its only hockey world cup at Kuala Lumpur way back in 1975. The team had wonderful 16 players. It was led by the ebullient midfielder Ajit Pal Singh. Click here to know more ...
K. ARUMUGAM & ERROL D’CRUZ The significance of the life and times of double Olympian Mohammad Riaz lies not only in his field exploits but also inadvertently being the last of the champion hockey players ...