2007 Bharatiya Hockey Guestbook

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Name: Vijay Lokapally
Email: vijaylokapally@gmail.com
Organization: The Hindu
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:
Keep up your good work.

Name: Dr. Vishnu S. Patel
Email: vspatel_nehaheartcentre@yahoo.com
Organization: Private Hospital, Friends Sports Club
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Reference: NewsGroups
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I would like to see the names and photographs of the present Indian hockey team players, coach and president.

Name: Babai Ganguly
Email: babaiganguly@yahoo.com.sg
Organization: IBM-Singapore
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I am an Indian hockey lover and fan. My wish is for India to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics hockey competition.

Hope the Indian team reviews the performance of the Great Britain team in their tour of South Africa.

The Indian team needs to watch out for rough and bad umpiring in the Olympic Qualifier in Chile, particularly in the deciding match against Great Britain. Please insist of getting fair umpires for this crucial match.

Name: Nakul Reddy
Email: nakulreddy1998@yahoo.co.in
Organization: SS
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: N/A
May we contact you: Yes
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Name: Kailash N. Chaurasia
Email: kailash_atul@yahoo.com
Organization: Business
How can you help: Monetarily
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Yahoo
Comments:
Your site is good. Please keep it up.

Name: Balaji
Email: aaru.balaji@gmail.com
Organization: Pasupathi Hockey Memorial Club, Ariyalur
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I love hockey and wish to develop the sport in our country.

Name: Kusum Arora
Email: kusumht@gmail.com
Organization: The Tribune, Jalandhar, Punjab
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:
A good effort. Try something innovative to make it more interesting.

Let's go on a publicity blitz, urging our kids in India to take up the sport of hockey. On my part, I have been sharing FIH promotional videos with as many of my contacts as possible. I am introducing my own kid girl to the game, and trying to open a small club for kids. Where will funds for even a natural turf ground come from? Heaven knows.

Name: Megha Choure
Email: c_megh@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Engineer
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Someone Else's Page
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India needs a victory in the Olympic Qualifier in Chile, for the survival of the game in the country. May God help Indian hockey.

Name: Murnish
Email: azuri_23@yahoo.com
Organization: Student
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: NewsGroups
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Name: Ahatisham Ikram
Email: ssport@brain.net.pk
Organization: Sialkot Sports
Home Page: http://www.sialkotsports.com/
How can you help: Other, I'll explain below
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
I admire the Indian Hockey Federation's efforts to develop hockey in India.

Name: Mr. John Patel
Email: mr.john_patel@hotmail.com
Organization: Hotel Taj Club
How can you help: Both of above
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
Comments:
We have a good team, filled with young stars, for the Olympic Qualifiers in Santiago. There will be tremendous pressure in the matches, and in order to break this, all forwards must play as a team and keep man-to-man defense. We should keep one drag flicker on the field at any given time. I am very happy that we have two drag flickers in the team.

I wish to see both the Indian men and Indian women's teams qualify for the 2008 Olympics. This will be my 5th Olympics, and I don't want to miss it in the world! Good luck to all the players in the Indian team! Jai Hind.

Name: Amit Kumar
Email: amitkumardhanbad@gmail.com
Organization: -
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Hockey is part of our national heritage, and all of us must strive to protect it.

Name: Waqar Rohila
Email: waqar@escriptonline.com
Organization: eScript Online Inc.
Home Page: http://www.escriptonline.com/
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I am Waqar Rohila, CEO of eScript Online Inc. I represented Jiwaji University (Gwalior) hockey team in the West Zone and All-India Inter-University held in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1996-97.

Currently I am a trainee hockey umpire, under the expert guidance of FIH umpires Satinder Sharma and G. S. Sangha. I am also registered with Hockey Austalia, Umpire Coaching, Hockey Ed.

Like all other Indians, I have always wished well for Indian hockey. I feel that India now has the required infrastructure to have a full-fledged hockey league. Now is the time when we must invest in the game of hockey and try and achieve world-class standards.

This venture would require the full cooperation of the print media, television channels, top corporate houses, IHF, Sports Ministry and all other stake holders in Indian hockey, including the players, officials and fans.

Long live Hockey, Long live India.

Name: Gautam Mohanty
Email: gautam652003@yahoo.com
Organization: Business
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I am a hockey player, having represented my university and state (Orissa) several times. Orissa has produced players like Dileep Tirkey, Lajarus Barla, and many others. I would like to help hockey grow in our country.

Name: Satish Kumar
Email: satish66_kumar@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Hero Cycles Ltd.
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Undecided
May we contact you: Undecided
Reference: I'll explain below...
Comments:
It's a nice effort to keep the hockey spirit alive, keep it up.

Name: Abhijit Shrivastava
Email: abhijits@intoday.com
Organization: India Today/Aaj Tak
How can you help: Other, I'll explain below
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: I'll explain below...
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It's a good site, but it should be updated whenever there is a news related to Indian hockey. I got to know about this site through http://ihf.gov.in/archive.htm. Well done, BharatiyaHockey.org team. Cheers.

Name: Sumit Sharma
Email: sumit.sharma@alfuttaim.ae
Organization: Al Futtaim LLC, Dubai
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Name: N. R. Gounder
Email: ruby123@dataone.in
Organization: Ruby Textile Processing Mills
How can you help: N/A
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: -
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Hockey teams must be formed in the schools and colleges of India, and earlier right from the sub junior levels. Involvement in the sport by the young boys and girls should be facilitated by providing them the infrastructure in schools.The present school environments have minimal space for sports grounds.

The government must put conditions on private schools to have sports (especially hockey) on the agenda, in addition to academics. The blend of sports and education will be good for the health of the students. Once the involvement is there at the school level itself, then you can get budding players and also a broad base of fans of the game. Then you can launch the game commercially also!

Name: Seelam Prem Kumar
Email: prem.seelam@gmail.com
Organization: Process Engineering
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I want to see Indian hockey be the equal of Indian cricket, and other sports in India. Hockey is our national game. Everyone should support and encourage young people to play hockey in India.

I would like to see our hockey team be as great as the teams in the past (teams from the 1930s to 1980s), using Dhyan Chand 'The Dada of Indian hockey' for inspiration. Best of luck to the Indian hockey team for the 2008 Olympics.

Name: Indian Hockey Fan
Email: hockey@india.com
Organization: Indian Hockey Fan
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To: K. P. S. Gill - kpsgill@satp.org and Jyothikumaran - jothihockey@yahoo.com

You both should take moral responsibility of drowning Indian hockey and should step down from your post. Show some dignity.

Your policies and choices resulted in India failing to qualify for Olympic for the first time in Indian hockey history. Shame on you!

Name: Harpal Kange
Email: harpalkang@hotmail.com
Organization: Self-employed
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
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Name: P. Tulasi Krishna
Email: tulsikrishnap@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Andhra Bhoomi (Telugu daily)
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Yahoo
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Name: Satish Kumar
Email: satish66_kumar@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Business
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Undecided
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: I'll explain below...
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K. P. S. Gill first eliminated militancy from Punjab, and now has eliminated hockey from India. Today is a black day for Indian hockey and for millions of its supporters.

Name: Dr. Shankar Kumar Chatterjee
Email: shankarchatterjee@rediffmail.com
Organization: Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata
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Reference: Google
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No, the players and the coach are not to be blamed for the national disaster of failing to qualify for the Olympics. Each and every one of us Indians have failed the team. We have neglected the game that has given us 9 world titles. What more success is necessary to prove your worth?

Our hockey players have given us far more than our cricketers have. In return, we have betrayed them and stabbed them in their backs. Blinded by the money in cricket, we have starved the game of hockey to death. Is it not a shame that we do not recognise Leslie Claudius and Ashok Kumar, but go ga ga over Sourav and Sachin?

Money is necessary, but it is not a substitute for a burning desire to succeed. Marketing alone is not enough. Let us struggle and work hard. Money will follow.

Let every Indian with a conscience vow to do whatever he or she can for hockey. Not all of us can influence national policy decisions, niether can we bring money into hockey, but we can teach our kids the game.

I am teaching my only child, a daughter aged nine, the game of hockey. I have brought in other children into it. I am forming a small hockey club for youngsters. I appeal to all of you who read this message to do the same. I vow to continue this to the last day of my life. Let us promise we will not let the game die in the land of the great Dhyan Chand.

Name: Beerun
Email: ronaldrodrix@hotmail.com
Organization: Hit n Scoop Inc.
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: -
Reference: Indian Portal
Comments:
Why were players like Sandeep Singh, Gagan Ajit Singh, Deepak Thakur, Hamza Mujtaba and Len Ayyappa dropped from the Indian team. Gill has no answer to that. He claims that they were not fit. Can anybody ask this nearly blind man whether he is fit enough to hold the post he is holding autocratically for the last 14 years.

In this year's PHL, Sandeep Singh was the top scorer; then why he was dropped from the Olympic Qualifier team? Gill has no answer because he can't see more than 5 meters. Gill blindly believes whatever Jyothikumaran and some of his personal security staff say.

Most of the people know that when Gill was the DGP of Punjab Police, he solved the militancy problem. But in fact he killed lots of innocent farmers and showed them as militants. Gill has done the same to hockey. He ignored and dropped the best players who should have been in the Indian team. Instead, he took a team selected by Jyothi and his personal staff. All team selection is based on under-the-table deals.

This was mentioned by Mr. Batra, ex-Vice president of IHF, in his television interview. The most shameful words came from the Indian sports minister. He said that the Ministry can't do anything regarding the Federation. So, does that mean that the Federation can put the name and honor of the country at risk and damage the pride and glory in this game?

If Gill has done some thing that affected the seats of the ministers, they would have come with a plan to cut off the hands of Gill. But this is hockey; that's why nobody is interested in looking into this debacle.

Shame to Mani Shankar Aiyar, K. P. S. Gill, Jyothikumaran, Carvalho and all the IHF officials. All these need to be kicked out immediately and a new panel of ex-players and coaches like Jagbir Singh, Mohammad Shaheed, Dhanraj Pillay, Zafar Iqbal, M. K. Kaushik, Ashish Balal, etc. should be formed to save Indian hockey.

Name: Dr. Hemant Sant
Email: drhemantsant@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Indian Citizen
Home Page: http://santhemant.sulekha.com/
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
The blackest day in Indian Hockey! The Indian hockey fans want heads to roll and coaches and captains to grovel.

It is indeed sad that we lost the last match.We - the fans, the coach and the players imposed on us by Adminstrators with rigid moustaches and background of anti terrorism.

We are the least sporting country in this world. We are ranked 150+ in the most common game played in the world - Football. Olympics is a mirage for this nation of a billion-plus people. Except Cricket - the game that is played by seven good teams and a few more out of 160 nations. We beat our chest blue when cricketers win something. A few thousand crores are nothing for this great game, other games can wait.

Nobody plays hockey in the elite schools and metros now. It is played in moffussil towns. Players get selected in the national team after third class travel around the country using concessional passes. Stadiums and astro turf - what are those?

As the rigid moustache and his team of anti-terror experts drive the hockey wagon from one disaster to another, we hardly care. Do we ask our children about games being played in the school? Fewer schools have fewer experts who can weave magic with a hockey stick in front of impressionable lads and lasses; students waste the games period with aimless loitering or playing. Nothing substantial is achieved in the thousands of school grounds.We are producing an assembly line of robots with good marks but no passion for actual sports for self developement.

Name: Shyju
Email: shyju3@rediffmail.com
Organization: Kerala Water Authority
How can you help: Both of above
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: NewsGroups
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Name: Rajaram
Email: rr2007@gmail.com
Organization: Self-employed
How can you help: Monetarily
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Indian Portal
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Yeh to besharmi ki inteha ho gayi. On day one, Carvalho offered his resignation, and on day two, Carvalho says he can rethink on his decision if the IHF asks him to.

The IHF gave Carvalho full freedom with the team, so he is the main person to be blamed.

Now coach Carvalho has started blaming the umpires. How is it that when a defender/drag flicker gets injured, he gets replaced by a striker (Roshan Minz) instead of by another drag flicker (Sandeep Singh)? My dear coach, please do not provoke the umpires; at least let other Indian teams play in the future at international level.

What a joke - 11 months are not enough to beat a lower-ranked British team.

Name: Venkatesan
Email: olympicdeva@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Tamil Nadu Boxing Association
How can you help: Monetarily
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Yahoo
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In a little more than an year, two shameful things have happened to Indian hockey - we came back without a medal from the Asian Games at Doha, and now we have not qualified for the Olympics. As a sportsman, I am very much sad to know that our hockey team will not be participating in the Olympics. Hereafter, we must give attention to the junior level. Let's hope for a bright future to Indian hockey.

Name: Nayan Samal
Email: nayansamal@rediffmail.com
Organization: S. Y. Samal & Co.
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
Comments:
Request more details on Mohammad Shaheed.

Name: Anoop
Email: anoop_buddy@yahoo.com
Organization: Student
How can you help: N/A
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Kudos to all those who are behind the working of this site!

Name: Shivraj
Email: rajaasr79@yahoo.com
Organization: -
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Willing to Support: Undecided
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Reference: Google
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Indian hockey is dead and person responsible for this is K. P. S. Gill. We don't deserve to be in the Olympics because we don't care for our heroes and we don't want to watch hockey. Had Dhyan Chand been a German, he would have been well taken care of. Let Indian hockey rest in peace.

Name: B. G. Joshi
Email: bgjoshi_hockeyscribe@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Hockey Scribe
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: PlanetFieldHockey.com
Comments:
Joaquim Carvalho is the main culprit in the Indian debacle at Santiago. It was sheer foolishness that Carvalho did not include Sandeep Singh in the squad. Also, Carvalho did not play our best goalkeeper Bharat Chetri in the final against Britain.

Sandeep Singh can do slap shots on free hits, sloth hits out of the D, drag flick on PCs and rush to defend PCs - these 4 qualities of Sandeep Singh maks him a key player.

Blind Carvalho ignore a drag flick specialist like Sandeep Singh, for which the nation paid a heavy price. Hang Carvalho.

Please don't be adamant, for the sake of Indian hockey resign as the national coach. Whatever you are today, it is because of hockey alone. Otherwise, lakhs of Carvalhos are present all over India, and nobody knows them.

Within the last 11 months, you have earned lots and lots of money, without doing any thing positive to Indian hockey. It will be good if you leave hockey gracefully, otherwise you will lost the respect of even the players.

Name: Sukhmandeep Bhullar
Email: sukhmandeep@hotmail.com
Organization: -
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Name: Rohit Kale
Email: rohit_kale30@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Private Company
How can you help: Monetarily
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I am from Gwalior, birthplace of the Indian hockey legend, Captain Roop Singh, and also 1975 World Cup player Shivaji Pawar. I like and love hockey because it's our national game. I have listened to and read about many hockey legends, like Dada Dhyan Chand, Captain Roop Singh, K. D. Singh Babu, B. P. Govinda, Michael Kindo, Leslie Claudius, Shankar Lakshman, Mohammad Shaheed, Zafar Iqbal, Thoiba Singh, Rajender Singh (Jr.), Mukesh Kumar, Dhanraj Pillay and many others.

But except for Dhanraj and Mukesh Kumar, I have never ever seen these legends in action. It's my request that if you have any video footage of these players winning glory for our nation, please include in this website.

I am looking for videos of our golden moments from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1964 Tokyo Olympics, 1966 Asian Games, 1975 World Cup, 1980 Moscow Olympics, our Asia Cup victories where we beat Pakistan, and also the 1982 Asiad Final (to see where the Indian players went wrong).

Apart from these videos, please include some pictures where these legends are in action.

Name: Deepak Sheth
Email: dvstara@hotmail.com
Organization: Charitable Trust
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Other: I'll explain below
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: I'll explain below...
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I represent a charity that is doing grassroots work in spreading education in hockey in different cities all over India. We have been doing work for the last 18 months with great success. We are looking for volunteers with special knowledge of the individual cities they live in. We need their help in formulating a comprehensive list of all schools or clubs that play hockey in their individual towns. It does not have to be a school that is good in hockey, as long as they are training youngsters. Please correspond with me on my email address if you are interested.

We can have some hockey teams visit 4-5 centres a month, play exhibition matches, present kids with hockey sticks, balls, shin guards, etc, form new hockey clubs and provide them with rule books.

We can concentrate on the urban communities to begin with, and later fan out into the villages. We can get more natural turf grounds prepared, since astro turfs are a pipedream.

The expenditure, of course, will be collossal. Why don't all of us in BharatiyaHockey.org start raising funds and take the initiative? Shall we approach sponsors? or the IHF? or the FIH?

Readers, how do you like the idea? Please contact and exchange views on this topic. Come on, like minded people, let's do something.

Name: Muhammad Mubeen
Email: mubeenbeeni@hotmail.com
Organization: Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan
How can you help: Other, I'll explain below
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
I was a national hockey player, and acting coach in Aitchison College in Lahore, Pakistan. I first visited India as a player in the Bombay Gold Cup in 2005. I next visited India as coach of the Aitchison College hockey team's tour of Indore and Mohali in 2006.

This is a good effort to promote hockey, which is in fact the game of both Pakistan and India. I feel bad that for the first time India did not qualify for the Beijing Olympics. I wish Indian hockey best of luck in future.

Name: Edwina George
Email: edwinageorge@yahoo.com
Organization: Sports Nutrition
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: -
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Yahoo
Comments:
Please carry out research studies on health and nutritional status of athletes.

Name: Rajaram
Email: rr2007@gmail.com
Organization: Self-employed
How can you help: Monetarily
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
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Re: Dr. Chatterjee's idea of involving Olympians in a nationwide Back2Hockey movement - Dr. Chatterjee, which world are you living in? In India, have you ever seen/heard Olympians working at the grassroots level? Olympians wants to coach only the national team. Teaching grassroots hockey will be considered as insulting by them.

Name: Karthik Chaudhary
Email: kartikcha@gmail.com
Organization: ESPN Mobile
How can you help: Other, I'll explain below
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:
Sandeep Singh's latest interview is available on ESPN-Star's PHL website - http://www.espnstar.com/phl/.

Name: Benhur Binny
Email: benhur10@rediffmail.com
Organization: ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
Comments:
All I want to say is India will come back and rule the hockey world one day.

Name: Gurpreet Singh Sidhu
Email: gurpreetsingh_sidhu@rediffmail.com
Organization: -
How can you help: N/A
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Undecided
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:
Please get together and improve Indian hockey, which has fallen down after 80 years. I feel so bad that I can't explain it with words. Everyone with some ideas please think about our hockey.

Name: Fernando Flores
Email: ipnfer16@hotmail.com
Organization: Asociacion de Hockey del IPN, Mexico
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Name: Devinder Basra
Email: devinderbasra@hotmail.com
Organization: FIT Hockey Club, Amsterdam
How can you help: Both of above
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:
I read your article 'How Can Netherlands Antilles Defeat India Twice In A Tournament?'. For your kind information, all the girls who played for Netherlands Antilles
reside in Netherlands (Holland), and play in the world class Dutch Hockey League. So such a result was expected.

I wish the Indian women's hockey team the very best of luck in this June's 4-nation hockey tournament in Rotterdam.

Name: S. Roshan Singh Granthi
Email: rtgranthi@gmail.com
Organization: Gurudwara Shri Hazur Saheb, Nanded
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
Good planning and long-term vision will improve our standard of play. We should keep up our efforts; our future is bright.

Name: Pramod Batlaw
Email: player901@yahoo.com
Organization: Hockey Improvement Trust (HIT)
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: -
Reference: Google
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I represented India in the 1978 Bangkok Asian Games. My appeal to everyone is to work together and contribute our time, knowledge, energy and money for improving the standard of hockey in our country. Let's get back to our glory days.

Name: Kenneth
Email: ordainedchukys4life@yahoo.com
Organization: Hockey Nigeria
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Other: I'll explain below
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
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I am a hockey player in Nigeria, and would like to play hockey in India.

Name: Madhuresh Mehta
Email: madhuresh.mehta@gmail.com
Organization: Private Sector
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: -
May we contact you: Undecided
Reference: Google
Comments:
Mittal's Champions Trust, created by Mr L. N. Mittal, is eager to promote sports in India. The trust has already started sponsoring deserving sportspersons in squash, badminton, etc.

Besides the Sahara Group, Indian hockey has no sponsors. Mittal's Champions Trust is ready to sponsor hockey in India if they receive a specific proposal from a sports body, or affiliate, or someone involved with the game of hockey.

I appeal to hockey lovers and ex-Olympians to approach the Mittal Champions Trust with a specific proposal for sponsoring hockey at the grassroots level (which is currently ignored), and by making hockey a promising and rewarding career for our youngsters.

Name: Arvindra Singh Lodhi
Email: lodhi_arvindra@rediffmail.com
Organization: Student
How can you help: N/A
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
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Vive la Indian hockey. We all Indians are with you

Hum jhuke hain par toote nahi, Hum pure jag ko hara denge
Hum sabhi team ke saath hain, Kar lo duniya mutti mein

Name: John Sellwood
Email: juniorbhc@hotmail.com
Organization: Bracknell Hockey Club
Home Page: http://www.freewebs.com/juniorbhc/
How can you help: Other, I'll explain below
Willing to Support: Other, I'll explain below
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Yahoo
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We are a small club in Bracknell, England, developing a youth section (under 14s). If you have youngsters touring England, look us up and we'll give you a game.

Name: Dr. Shankar Kumar Chatterjee
Email: shankarchatterjee@rediffmail.com
Organization: Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:
An year ago, I formed a hockey club for kids. Presently, I have 13 kids amd youngsters playing on a makeshift pitch. What started as a small dream has now become reality. If I, a 45-year-old physician who never played competition level hockey can do it, I am sure those who read this can do much better. All such actions will make a difference in a country crazed with cricket.

Name: Zulkiflee bin Zainal
Email: zulhoki@yahoo.com.my
Organization: Brunei hockey
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: -
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Name: Pradeep Manoj
Email: pm05bme32@gmail.com
Organization: KCT
How can you help: Monetarily
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Name: Kiran Puri
Email: kb.puri@gmail.com
Organization: -
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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I play high school hockey in the US, and wish to play hockey in college too. I was very disappointed to find that neither the Indian men nor the Indian women qualified for the Beijing Olympics.

Since hockey is India's national sport, I feel it should be made a larger priority, and I hope that the players and coaches will try extremely hard to push India's name onto the global hockey stage.

Name: Saket Kumar
Email: saket_kumar22@yahoo.com
Organization: Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka
Home Page: http://sunny22.wordpress.com/about/
How can you help: N/A
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
Hockey is our national game and no doubt it is a great sport, but it is slowly losing its charm in India. But I am sure the situation will improve and all Indians will once again start cheering and supporting the sport of hockey. Chak de India!

Name: Dilbeer Singh
Email: singhdalbeer@yahoo.com
Organization: Software Engineer, iGate Global Solutions Ltd., Bangalore
How can you help: Other, I'll explain below
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
I played hockey for my state. I support Indian hockey anytime, anywhere. Please update your site with some recent news for us hockey lovers.

Name: Frank Rüger
Email: frank.rueger@freenet.de
Organization: BV Westfalia Bochum
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: -
May we contact you: -
Reference: Google
Comments:
Please let me know the team composition of the Indian team that finished third in the 1982 Champions Trophy. So far, I only have the following 7 names - Mohammed Shaheed, Mervyn Fernandes, Somayya Maneypande, Manohar Topno, J. M. Carvalho, Romeo James and Jagdeep Singh. Thank you.

Name: Akkaiah Choudhary
Email: acmikkilineni@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Bongaigaon Refinery, Assam
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: NewsGroups
Comments:

Name: Santosh Kumar Maharana
Email: maharana7@gmail.com
Organization: -
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
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Name: Ram Chandra Bhatia
Email: bhatia0508@rediffmail.com
Organization: Hindustan
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: -
May we contact you: -
Reference: -
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Name: Tej Vohra
Email: winchester.rifle@gmail.com
Organization: IIT Bombay
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Word of Mouth
Comments:

Name: Maninder Pal Singh Grewal
Email: maninderpal1982@rediffmail.com
Organization: Grewal Sports Association, Kilaraipur
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: -
Reference: Google
Comments:
Would like to work from the lower level up.

Name: Mr. John Patel
Email: mr.john_patel@hotmail.com
Organization: Hotel Taj Club
How can you help: -
Willing to Support: -
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: -
Comments:
Congratulations to our boys and coach Bansal for winning the Jr. Asia Cup. We were down 0-2 till the 52nd minute. It was big pressure for the home team. However, Diwakar Ram converted two penalty corners before the end of regulation time to tie th game. Congratulations to Sunil for scoring the victory goal.

Name: Mohammad Intekhab Alam
Email: intekhabco@yahoo.co.in
Organization: Rakshak Hockey
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: No
Reference: PlanetFieldHockey.com
Comments:
I think good times are back for Indian Hockey. Mr. A. K. Bansal, you really are a good coach, I am impresed with your coaching style.

Name: Parduman Singh Soi
Email: parduman@yahoo.com
Organization: Indian Navy
How can you help: Both of above
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
Hockey's journey in Olympics started in 1908, 100 years ago. It is ironical that in these 100 years, Indian hockey fell from zenith to nadir. So much so that the doors of Beijing got shut for Indian hockey.

It is sheer coincidence that so many Sikhs contributed to the glorious phase of India's hockey, but it took just one of our very own (Gill saab) to put the last nail in the coffin of Indian hockey.

Name: Balkar Singh Bajwa
Email: balkarbajwa@rogers.com
Organization: Individual
How can you help: Time and effort
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: FieldHockey.com
Comments:
I am writing a small book on Hockey Greats of Sadhar, Ludhiana. Some of them like the late Sardara Singh Sidhu DP and Col. Jaswant Singh have played with Balbir Singh Sr. and Gurcharan Singh Bodhi. Another was Mr. Nirmal Singh Gill, who represented Punjab University in Inter-University hockey in Nagpur.

Where can I get more information about these players? Can I obtain some photographs of that time?

Name: Anjita Roychaudhury
Email: anjita@gmail.com
Organization: News Editor, CNN-IBN
How can you help: N/A
Willing to Support: Yes
May we contact you: Yes
Reference: Google
Comments:
I would like to purchase a copy of Goal, the hockey wizard Dhyan chand's autobiography for my husband, who is a hockey enthusiast. Is there any way the organisation could help me purchase the same?

I appreciate the effort the group is making in aiding the flailing condition of the national sport, and would like to see my son grow up to love the game. I would also like to know if I could help you in any which way i can.

Warm regards,
Anjita

LAST UPDATED: Tuesday, August 19, 2008