Dutch legend Bovelander interacts with One Thousand Hockey Legs kids in Delhi

Dutch hockey legend Floris Jan Bovelander interacted with hockey kids of Delhi based NGO, One Thousand Hockey Legs, in South Delhi today.

Floris is here in Delhi on a personal visit to India and has spent some precious time with the aspiring school kids.

Floris is both Olympic and World Cup gold medallist and an incomparable exponent of penalty corner execution.

Floris witnessed a match between two teams of the NGO and expressed happiness that the talent pool of India is really good.

“Some of the boys are really gifted, I can the spot the glimpses of making some great players here provided they are given proper support”, the legend said.

“Am happy to see the NGO has brought hundreds of kids to play hockey at school level. I am overwhelmed by the passion these kids show on the India’s premier sport that hockey is”, Floris opined.

One Thousand Hockey Legs is a flagship project of Hockey Citizen Group, which seeks to introduce the game of hockey to at least 500 school kids in every major city of India.

Currently, OTHL runs 25 schools in Delhi, over all 70 schools in India. OTHL operates in Kolkata, Kanpur (UP), Puducherry and Chennai besides Delhi.

OTHL is the only hockey NGO that fields its combined team in the Hockey India Sub-Junior National Championship.

The volunteer based NGO is founded by hockey historian and writer K. Arumugam.

“Floris visit has boosted the morale of my kids, and we will professionally interact with him in the days to come, confident Arumugam said.