Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: November 28, 2023, 13:42 IST
Indian males’s hockey crew head coach Craig Fulton (HI)
Indian males’s hockey crew head coach Craig Fulton desires a “fresh perspective” for subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics and has named a 39-member core group for a nationwide camp.
Hockey India on Tuesday named a 39-member core group of gamers for the lads’s nationwide camp to arrange for the upcoming 5-nation match in Spain, whilst head coach Craig Fulton seeks a “fresh perspective” for subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics.
The Indian males’s hockey crew, which certified immediately for Paris Olympics after successful the gold medal within the Hangzhou Asian Games, will function within the 5-nation match in Valencia ranging from December 15.
World champions Germany, France, Belgium and the hosts Spain are the opposite groups within the match.
The males’s nationwide teaching camp begins on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Centre in Bengaluru from Wednesday.
“It was a long break from national camp after a successful outing in the Hangzhou Asian Games. Most of the players from the team played the National Championship in Chennai, and I too got a chance to watch some of the young and upcoming players closely,” Fulton stated.
“We will now assemble in SAI, Bengaluru, with a fresh perspective to our preparations for the Paris Olympics.
“As I have maintained, it is a process and we will revisit our Asian Games campaign and understand how we can do better as a team and work towards that,” Fulton added.
The core group for the nationwide camp has all of the 18 gamers that received gold within the Asian Games final month.
Team captain Harmanpreet Singh stated, “The past few weeks were great, as we got to spend quality time with family and also had a great outing playing for our home state at the National Championship in Chennai. Now, we return to the camp yearning to be a better team.”
List of gamers within the core-possible group:
Goalkeepers: Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Suraj Karkera, Pawan, Prashant Kumar Chauhan.
Defenders: Jarmanpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh, Varun Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Gurinder Singh, Jugraj Singh, Mandeep Mor, Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Sanjay, Yashdeep Siwach, Dipsan Tirkey, Manjeet.
Midfielders: Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Moirangthem Rabichandra Singh, Shamsher Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Rajkumar Pal, Sumit, Akashdeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mohd Raheel Mouseen, Maninder Singh.
Forwards: S Karthi, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek, Dilpreet Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Simranjeet Singh, Shilanand Lakra, Pawan Rajbhar.
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