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Imran Shah (our goalie) is the Kamran Akmal of hockey. He was generally clueless. Can’t win Olympic medals when your keeper is such a douchebag.
Replace Iftikhar with Imran Shah and it makes perfect sense then. Hasan Sardar, Samiullah and Marina Khan in the audience
Khalid Abbas Dar
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India lost all their 5 matches. beaten 3-0 by Belgium today
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**Semifinals
**Netherlands v GB
Australia v Germany
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Belgium finished 3rd in Group B!
NZ 4-2 up against Germany (have already qualified for semis) at half time!!
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make it NZ 5 - Germany 2
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Germany fight back to make it 5-4
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Final result 5-5
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Holland the only team to have won all 5 group matches
Australia though has the best goal difference (23-5)
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As Southie mentioned (and I agree with him), hockey of today is unrecognizable from the 80s.
The introduction of synthetic turf has a lot to do with the decline in Pakistani and Indian hockey. Astroturf has been there in Europe since the 70s and in international hockey since the early 80s. On grass hockey was a slower and more skilful game where dribbling, dodging and short passing were the key ingredients. Since astroturf, it has become a quicker and long ball game with more goals scored from penalty corners. The key attributes are athleticism and organisation. Hard-earned breathtaking field goals seem like a thing of the past
That being said, *Pakistan won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1982 and 1994 world cups on astroturf.
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Ironically we won then despite not having a great penalty corner specialist. But our forwards incl. Hasan Sardar, Manzoor Junior, Samiullah, Kalimullah, Hanif Khan and Shahbaz Ahmed etc. were brilliant
Defensive weakness apart our current set of forwards are just not good or skilful enough imo. They lack co-ordination, fluency and penetration. We should only be copying the European style in defence (because our defence is weak) but when it comes to attacking play/field goals we need to revert to the old Asian style hockey (dribbling and short passing)
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issay kehtay hain apnay pair par kulhari marna!!!..
but after watching the game i could not resist bringing up the age topic in hockey as well…i think i shd move to pak and join “mardam shamari” department
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there you go…javed ch has summarized it really well…probably one of the most useless nations in the world but claims to be “the most talented one” …
one question all Pakistanis should ask themselves…if tomorrow morning the 6th largest country in the world - 180 million strong - disappears from this planet, would it make any difference to the world in any capacity? from sports to social media to industry to religion to banking..i mean just think through different segments … and yeah you can call me anything you want to, the most pessimistic person blah blah but then sit down for a sec and do ask this question! i bet most nations if not all would be glad to get rid of this problem child!
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As Southie mentioned (and I agree with him), hockey of today is unrecognizable from the 80s.
The introduction of synthetic turf has a lot to do with the decline in Pakistani and Indian hockey. Astroturf has been there in Europe since the 70s and in international hockey since the early 80s. On grass hockey was a slower and more skilful game where dribbling, dodging and short passing were the key ingredients. Since astroturf, it has become a quicker and long ball game with more goals scored from penalty corners. The key attributes are athleticism and organisation. Hard-earned breathtaking field goals seem like a thing of the past
That being said, *Pakistan won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1982 and 1994 world cups on astroturf. * Ironically we won then despite not having a great penalty corner specialist. But our forwards incl. Hasan Sardar, Manzoor Junior, Samiullah, Kalimullah, Hanif Khan and Shahbaz Ahmed etc. were brilliant
Defensive weakness apart our current set of forwards are just not good or skilful enough imo. They lack co-ordination, fluency and penetration. We should only be copying the European style in defence (because our defence is weak) but when it comes to attacking play/field goals we need to revert to the old Asian style hockey (dribbling and short passing)
Re: bold part, in early 80s rules were different I think. If someone was on wrong side you could just lift your stick and referee gave you a free shot. Nowadays defenders challenge from wrong side. So dribbling and taking the defender on his wrong side is a thing of the past. If I recall samiullah was left-out or left wing. His skills would be wasted today. Makes me sad to watch the game today.
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Samiullah nicknamed ‘the flying horse’ was left out
I think it will be an Australia-Netherlands Final
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Disappointing 7th place after narrowly defeating S Korea 3-2 today!
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Pakistan fight back to claim Olympic hockey 7th place | Bangkok Post: news
What happened to Korea? It was a strong team a few years ago, finished runner up in the Sydney 2000 Olympics (lost to Holland 5-4 on penalties, 3-3 after extra-time)
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Olympics hockey: Pakistan legend fears for the game in his country
Former Pakistan captain Islahuddin Siddique is concerned for the future of the game in his country after the men’s side crashed out of the Olympics.
BBC Sport - Olympics hockey: Pakistan legend fears for the game in his country
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First semifinal:
Australia-Germany 1-1 after 26 minutes
http://www.london2012.com/hockey/event/men/match=hom400201/index.html
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watch the game live (UK viewers)
1-1 after 1st half
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2-1
Australia score in 2nd half from a goal mouth scramble, scrappy goal but they all count