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another poor performance .....
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Wow…Pakistan even lost to Canada 2-3 in the overtime… 
WC 2010: Pakistan finished this tourney at the bottom…12… 
Pakistani Hockey team kay Heejray World Cup mein baarhwein position per.
I don't know if their physical training is lacking or they are all sifaarshi but I think they lack confidence and self-esteem to the extreme and must be very insecure. I don't know how much psychological training they get. That is very important in sports especially in world events and especially in India where there is so much anti-Pakistan propaganda at the moment. They probably see the physically strong goras and feel inferior.
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This is great news. The whole Paki Hockey team retired..
is this the same country which won 4 world cups
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And the whole management has been sacked by PHF... :D
Wow...Pakistan even lost to Canada 2-3 in the overtime...
lol...i'm as shocked as you are :P
True Pakistan should not have lost against hockey minnows South Africa (3-4) or Canada (2-3) but the fact that we somehow beat Spain 2-1 and narrowly lost against Australia (1-2, who play the Final against Germany) just shows that despite the pathetic health of our national sport, anything is possible in today's hockey. The heavy defeats against both India (1-4) and England (2-5) are a cause for concern though and probably prove that our defence is too leaky or chaotic and not upto international hockey standards. Our present forwards are just not good or penetrative enough to score more than 2 goals per game. That puts the onus on defence to save our behinds in every game. The bottomline is we must tighten up our defence (backs, half-backs and goalie) and find one or two decent forwards if we are to compete with top teams in World Hockey
Australia crowned World Hockey Champions
Power-packed Australia proved third time lucky as they won the men’s field hockey World Cup after a 24-year hiatus with a 2-1 win over defending champions Germany on Saturday.
Luke Doerner scored the winning penalty corner 11 minutes from the end after Edward Ockenden had put the Kookaburras ahead in the sixth minute and Moritz Furste drew level for Germany in the 48th. Doerner’s eighth goal in the tournament made him the joint leading scorer with another penalty corner specialist Taeke Taekema of the Netherlands.
**Australia, whose previous World Cup title came way back in 1986, had lost the last two finals against Germany in 2002 and 2006. **The Germans, hoping to become the first team in history to bag a hat-trick of titles to add to the Beijing Olympic gold medal two years ago, were outpaced by the speedy Australians.
Kookaburras’ legendary coach Ric Charlesworth watched the final from the stands behind the goal, rather than on the bench, just as he had done in the semi-final against the Netherlands.
Charlesworth, who was part of Australia’s Cup winning squad in 1986, achieved the distinction of winning the World Cup both as a player and coach.
“I am too noisy and too excited on the bench, so I preferred to be calm in the stands,” said Charlesworth. “There was nothing superstitious about it.
“I am very, very pleased. We played a good game with a lot of control and authority. Scoring that early goal was very helpful.
“I am pleased to win both as player and captain. In 1986, the scoreline was the same, but the opponents (England) were different.
“The next goal now is the London Olympics.”German captain Max Muller said the penalty corners proved decisive.
“We too got one in the end, but could not score,” he said. “We are a young side and maybe got overawed by the occasion.
“Today we are disappointed, but when we think of it tomorrow morning, we will be pleased we reached the final.”The Netherlands, meanwhile, gave veteran goalkeeper Guus Vogels a retirement present by winning the bronze medal with a 4-3 win over England earlier on Saturday.
In a thrilling play-off for the third and fourth place positions, Rogier Hofman scored the winning goal three minutes before the final whistle after the Dutch fought back from 1-3 at half-time.
Vogels, who turns 35 later this month, was named the Dutch captain instead of Teun de Nooijer for the bronze medal match, his last international game after earning 260 caps for his country.
Vogels was part of the Netherlands’ Olympic gold medal-winning teams in 1996 and 2000.
“We wanted to win this one for Guus and I am proud the way we played today,” said de Nooijer. “It was incredible the way we came back in the match.
“Guus has been a great ambassador for Dutch hockey and has enjoyed a glorious career. We will celebrate by throwing a dinner for him here.”European champions England, hoping for a podium finish for the first time since winning the silver medal in 1986, were swept aside in the second half by a determined Dutch side.
“It is absolutely devastating,” said England captain Barry Middleton. “All the hard work we have done in the tournament has come to nothing because we failed to win a medal.
“We just did not do the little things well in the match. It was our worst game in the tournament.”
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germnay players were literally crying after the defeat
^ and to think that Pakistan lost to Australia (the Aussies were probably just warming up for the tougher challenges ahead) by the same margin but finished last in the World Cup!
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LOL :D
The top three teams remain Australia, Germany and Holland and that has been the world order for the past 26 years. Pakistan though they last won the World Cup in 1994 have not been a major or consistent force in hockey since 1984 when they won the Los Angeles Olympic Gold beating Germany 2-1. The wheels came off soon after that victory and by mid-80s our decline in hockey had started.
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IMO pak can never ever go into the top 5 teams hockey teams ever because they have started to adopt the european style hockey .......n completely changed their game ....
^ I miss that golden period. Pakistan should revert to Asian-style hockey - deft dribbling and short passes etc. Ever since they tried to copy the European style of play they have been struggling in hockey. And their defence is clearly not upto international hockey standards
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I think…Pakistan hockey should focus on the followings:
-Short passes…particularly in the opponent’s D-area…
-Long passes…to switch quickly from one half to the other…
-Penalty corners practice…I think…there should be 3-4 penalty corner specialists in the team at any given time…every penalty corner specialist should practice at least 2000 shoots a day…with different variants and combinations!
-Team’s fitness…its imperative that the national team should be able to play under all circumstances and conditions…in all parts of the world…
-The national coach of the team must have sufficient knowledge of the opponents on any given day to device a winning strategy…