Team Hockey India, at Asiad...

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Re: Team Hockey India, at Asiad…

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1980, when I used to watch it. Caught a brief glimpse in the recent Olympics - could not even recognize the game. People hitting from one end of the field to the other, using reverse stick to hit it powerfully, on defence, coming from wrong side and not being called foul, no dribbling, just hit and run. The skill factor appears to be substituted by brute force. Any insights welcome.

Exactly this the reason behind downfall of South Asian hockey and another being the artificial pitches. In the name of making hockey a spectator sports - the FIH has changed it all together - but despite that hockey still comes at number 35 out of 35 sports in Germany. Crowds never grow more than 15,000 in Europe.

Football is still being played on the rules of like 50-60 years ago!