Strongertogether - The History Book of Indian Hockey http://indiahockey.net Everything happening in Indian Hockey Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:37:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 http://indiahockey.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hockey_fav_light.png Strongertogether - The History Book of Indian Hockey http://indiahockey.net 32 32 India beats Great Britain 3-1, enters Semis after 41 years http://indiahockey.net/2021/08/01/india-beats-great-britain-3-1-enters-semis-after-41-years/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:28:18 +0000 http://indiahockey.net/?p=3277 After four decades Indian men hockey enters into semis in the Olympics. The national team defeated Great Britain 3-1, marking its victory straight to the semifinals. Thanks to Dilpreet Singh,…

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]]> After four decades Indian men hockey enters into semis in the Olympics. The national team defeated Great Britain 3-1, marking its victory straight to the semifinals.

Thanks to Dilpreet Singh, Gurjeet Singh and Hardik Singh for scoring goals for India. The achievement has come after a long wait of four decades. Winning this game team India came to a step closer to win gold in the sport.

India, being the famed hockey team that won eight golds so far in the sport, was awaiting such a victory for decades. Manpreet Sandhu and his squad sealed victory scoring goals through Dilpreet Singh at 7′, Gurjant Singh at 16′ and Hardik Singh at 57′. While Sam Ward scored the lone goal for the opponent team at 45′.

India will now face world champions Belgium in the semifinal on Tuesday.

India has a remarkable history in the sport. From 1928 to 1956, India won six consecutive golds in the most anticipated games. It was 1980 in Moscow when the last gold was named after India, at that time only six teams played at the event and there were no semifinals. The national team played the last semis in 1972 (Munich) against its arch-rival Pakistan and lost 0-2.

For a country like India, which is home to legendary players like Major Dhyan Chand, Balbir Singh Sr. to name a few, such a long wait isn’t that exciting. The pain was inevitable.

In another match, Belgium triumph over Spain 3-1 in the quarterfinal and made their way to the semis.

In another semifinal match, Australia will face Germany.

With today’s accomplishment, India now stands a 5-4 win-loss record against Great Britain in the Olympic Games.

As soon as India won the match, Twitter got inundated with appreciation messages. Among them, a few renowned were hockey legend Dhanraj Pillay, BCCI secretary Jay Shah, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Col Rajyavardhan Rathore and others joined the queue congratulating the national team.

India Squad: P.R. Sreejesh (GK); Manpreet Singh (C), Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Surender Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Birendra Lakra, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh

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]]> Tokyo Olympics | India vs Argentina | Another victory by 3-1 http://indiahockey.net/2021/07/29/tokyo-olympics-india-vs-argentina-team-india-made-entrance-to-quarterfinals/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:34:33 +0000 http://indiahockey.net/?p=3221 In another heated match, Manpreet Sandhu led team won against Olympic champions Argentina scoring 3-1 on Thursday. This was the fourth Pool A match played by the national team at…

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]]> In another heated match, Manpreet Sandhu led team won against Olympic champions Argentina scoring 3-1 on Thursday. This was the fourth Pool A match played by the national team at the Oi Hockey Stadium. 

With this victory, the national team is set to book a place in the Quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympics.

The air in the podium was in favour of India when Manpreet Singh and his men swiftly attacked in the match. Team players Varun Kumar, Vivek Sagar Prasad and Harmanpreet Singh scored goals for India in 43rd, 58th and 59th minutes respectively. While for Argentina Maico Casella hit a goal in the 48th minute.

Although India secured two penalty strokes in a row in the 41st minute but was unable to convert them. Speedily enough, Argentina protested with Matias Rey, who returned to the field after a five-minute suspension, going toe-to-toe with PR Sreejesh. But the Indian goalkeeper averted the attack with the appearance of Varun Kumar, who twitched the ball away. 

Till now India has played four matches and is at the second position with nine points, Australia being at the number one position with 12 points, followed by Spain (4 points), New Zealand (4 points), Argentina (4 points) and Japan (1 point). For every win, each team is awarded three points. The top four teams from each group will play in the quarter-finals. 

India will face host Japan on Friday. This will be the final group match for the national team. 

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