With No Malice To One And Anybody :: This Is What Hockey India Needs .

Pic - :: That SOUVENIER From Ishlauddin Siddique and that VISTING CARD from Muzahir Bhai Bari.

With No Malice To One And Anybody :: This Is What Hockey India Needs .

Perhaps this would be the last and the end of the article that I have been writing on Hockey so far in my blog. Where Do I start from.

Before I write so many words and lines on this subject and the article let me make it very clear that what you see on the main picture here- it is the vising card of Mohammed Muzahir Bari, the National Hockey commentator of Pakistan, and on the reverse of that visiting card it is the autobiography of Ishlauddin Siddique the WORLD FAMOUS INSIDE RIGHT of Pakistan and the EMBLEM of Ishlauudin Benefit match which the Pakistan Government and the Pakistan Hockey Federation held in his honour awarding him Rs 25 Lakhs then for his contribution to the Pakistan Hockey Federation then, in the year 1982. I collected it when they gave it to me when I met them in February 1982 at Nagpur .

OK- let me start from that moment when I met the THREE THINKERS of Pakistani Hockey. The First was Mohammed Muzahir Bari. He was and perhaps he is the National Commentator of Pakistan Hockey. He was here at India to comment on the India-Pakistan Junior Hockey series when there was an Indo-Pak Junior Hockey series held in 1981 where in India Pakistan drew India 2-2 at Bombay, then, lost by 0-1 to India at Hyderabad beat India by 3-1 at Nagpur and again beat India by 1-0 at New Delhi and then Beat India by 1-0 in one game at Pakistan and drawing the remaining at 1-1 at Pakistan wooing India to win the series by 3-1 in the EIGHT match series. Thereafter I would come to Ishlauudin Siddique and at last to Mr Air Marshal Noor Khan , both, and whom I met at Nagpur.

I would also like to mention about a player John Topno who played for the C.R.P.F then and whom I met during a bus travel from Kamptee to Nagpur – all the time conversing with him at the bus about Hockey .The remains would be my experience that I would like to share here at Hockey.

It maybe added here that I played Hockey for my College team, Hislop College and for the Vidharbha Hockey Colts as well in the All India Baidyanath Trophy in 1978 where I stopped TWO penalty shots taken by Zafar Iqbal during the course of the match losing that match by 1-3 to the Aligarh District Hockey association. Zafar Iqbal is a Civil Engineer by qualification and he served the Indian Airlines from 1978 to 2016 before retiring from it’s service.

I shall start with Mohammed Muzahir Bari. A M.Com from the Raipur ie the Ravi Shankar Shukla University then, he was born , brought up and groomed at Raipur which has become the Capital of Chattisgarh, and he completed his studies completing his M.Com from Raipur. He later shifted his base to Pakistan and he was a Company Finance secretary at the Sukkur Beverages at Pakistan. He was given the charge of being the National Hockey Commentator of Pakistan Hockey by the Government of Pakistan. I got to know many a facts about the Hockey , the World Hockey through him.

The European take Many Advantages Of the Changing The Rules Of Hockey

It was through Mr Muzahir Bari that I came to know that it are the European Hockey bodies that completely takes the advantage of changing all the normal rules of the game in Hockey. The first such came in 1975.After the World Cup Hockey was won by India in 1975 beating Pakistan. The first HOWL that the European made was- HOCKEY SHOULD BE PLAYED ON TURF. The reason was that they advocated that when it rains at times while playing Hockey on the ground, the field thereafter becomes very bad and untidy to play Hockey. Infact the World Cup 1973 at Amsterdam, and the world Cup at Kuala Lumpur at Malaysia in 1975 were halted at many occasion as the rain had interrupted .The case of India was worst in the Finals of the 1973 World Cup where India led by 2-0 within 19 minutes to lose the Championship by ;losing to Holland by 4-6 after the tie breaker.

The reason advocated was that rain would not disturb the game at all on the Astro Turf if at all it rain at all during the match as the Astro Turf requires a lot of watering to be done before the match at at the time of interval as well. That would not hinder the game at all. This was the first VOTE that the Europeans brought into the game and in the voting the Asian representative lost. The Astro Turf came in then.

Why do the Asian lose, always in the meeting-voting time in the F.I.H. It is because of the split vote and accumulation of the same. There are say, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, North Ireland that plays as GREAT BRITAIN. Each has their w own separate bodies of games and sports and each plays separately well within their country and within the land of Great Britain. But they play ONE and as a WHOLE in the Olympics by the name of Great Britain. However when it comes for voting they vote INDIVIDUALLY and SEPERATELY and the votes multiplies as well when it becomes FIVE votes in the F.I.H body from Europe from Great Britain. It was same when East and West Germany , when they were separate as a nation , voted during these meetings. These additional SEPARATE votes were the reason for the Asian Body as a whole to continuously lose out to the Europeans when it came to stop the change of many a rules implemented. These implementations always suited the Europeans and they completely brought in many a changes into the game by bringing so many a new rules to the game which completely suited them and extremely did not suit the Asian Countries at all and slowly Hockey, the TRADITIONAL Hockey which was the HEART-THROB coupled with BEAUTY went off from the game and Pakistan and India were left to the lurch.

From FIRST changing the surface on which it is played, the Europeans for their suitability changed the art of taking the penalties by bringing in the DRAG-FLICK, taking off and away the REVERSE FLICK, they brought in the reverse hit, then they changed and took off the OFF-SIDE and many a small and some not very small but not very big changes were added to hockey. The last nail in the coffin that thee Europeans hit in the coffin of the Asian Hockey was the complete change in the arena of Goalkeeping that is completely AGAINST the TRADITION of the Asian Hockey where at first they brought in a change very quickly for the goalkeeper to completely lie down in the goal to stop those penalty corners taken and thereafter the drag flick where the goalkeeper has to wear those mask etc to save his face. These changes absolutely KILLED the Asian Hockey. The Asians are not used to lie down on the ground in the goal when the goalkeeper has to do that to save the penalty corners and the Asian s are not adepted to wear those kind of heavy kits and the mask to wear them to protect the goal being scored. It hampers the movement of the goalkeeper but it suits the Europeans and the Europeans ever since then from 1988 at Seoul where Great Britain won the Hockey title after a gap of 64 years, have been consecutively winning the Olympic as well as the world title since 1994, when Pakistan won it for the last from Asia to keep their title and the image intact. This actually has taken away all the credits of the Hockey from Asia.

Ishlauddin and his view-:

After finishing it from Bari, I spoke to Ishlauddin who infact was at ONE point of a time, the BEST-INSIDE-RIGHT of Pakistan when the 5-3-2-1 system of Hockey and game was played and the BEST in the WORLD for Pakistan in that position between the period of 1968 to 1979 when he finally retired from Hockey after leading Pakistan to their world Cup victory in 1978 against Holand where trailing Holland by 0-2 in the breather they came back so strongly to beat them by 3-2 and again he led the Pakistan Hockey team in the finals at Esanda International World Cup Hockey where they won that championship beating Holland by 5-2 in the finals or it could be 4-2 as well .

I spoke to him in length all about to know where does Pakistan lies ahead of India in Hockey and where does India lies ahead to them. I WAS SHOCKED BY HIS ANSWER.

The answer completely BROKE ME INTO PIECES. All Ishlauddin had to say was-;

AAPKE MEHERBANI SAY TO HUM HOCKEY MAI MAHARAJA KAA TAAJ PEHNAY HUEY HAIN AUR MAJA MAAR RAHEY HAIN. This means IT IS YOUR CLEMENCY AND FAVOUR WHICH YOU DO EVERYTIME FOR US TO BE CROWNED AND WALK LIKE A EMPORER. Without India’s FAVOUR that we continuously get everytime we PAKISTAN cannot win any crown.

He very DIPLOMATICALLY and at every POINT of time very DIPLOMATICALLY so that the orders laid to him by the Pakistani Administration DID NOT BREAK and that he could put his VIEW-POINTS in a CUNNINGLY but a SEEMINGLY manner , he put it all which at that point of a time I could not understand as I was a NOVICE to politics at that time but which I now understand every bit of it when TODAY, I’M A STRATEGIST FOR B.J.P as well as R. S . S as a FREE-LANCER for strategizing their poll’s strategy as well as the NATIONAL strategy on Economics, Defense, Water and Economic policy as well as many such strategies. This WE and I do. These many of US coming from the R.S.S. School do as a FREE LANCE SERVICE to the NATION for the B.J.P to do well .I started this on a FULL SCALE to do from December 2011 and ever since that I COMPLETELY HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE ESSENCE OF POLLING AND THE METHOD OF WINNING THE POLLS AS WELL AS THE POLITICS COUPLED WITH DIPLOMACY THAT I UNDERSTAND NOW. The FIRST such stance that I took to opine was the RELATION of India with Pakistan in 1999 when Mr Vajapayee took that BUS to LAHORE in 1999.

At that time when I was listening to Ishlauddin, I was a NOVICE with NO INTEREST in politics. But today when those words wrangles in my ears I fully understand about what Ishlauddin had wanted to say all about it.

Ishlauudin was very open to saying that the Indian Hockey team FIRST , does not select the PERFECT playeers to play in the Internationals at all. In comparism Pakistan always selects the PERFECT players to play for their side in the respective position. No matter he added, at times we fail to win the titles but on most of the occasion we win it because we select all the PERFECT-PREICSE players to play for us.

In our talks he added that he first was a member of the Pakistani side which won the 1968 Mexico Olympics. That was the FIRST time he had watched the Indian Olympic team and the Indian team playing Hockey. There was a MURMUR in the Pakistani camp about playing India in the finals but no sooner that India lost it’s opening match to New Zealand in 1968 and were held to a 1-1 draw against East Germany, the Pakistani camp in MIND were sure that they would whip India by a score of either 2-1 in the finals or by 3-1 as well . WHY-WHY THAT FEELING I ASKED, the REPLY was- INDIA WAS NOT PLAYING, Inam-Ur-Rehman who was the BEST either at the Inside Right position in the WORLD or at the INSIDE LEFT. Strange a player who was the BEST while playing in this two position in the WORLD was NOT playing at all for India in the Olympics, warming the bench.

I was TOTALLY surprised when Ishla Bhai added- MAI KHUD INSIDE RIGHT KHELTA THAA PUR MAI INAM –UR- REHMAN JAISE KABHIE BHI NAHIN THAA. Meray GALAY MAI DOH-DOH OLYMPICS GOLD HAI PAR INAM KE PASS KYA MALOOM KYA HAI. It means even I was playing at the Inside Right position I was NEVER as GOOD as Inam and he was warming the bench at the Olympics. STRANGE a player who could play so EQUAL and EFFECTIVELY in the inside right or inside left ands was the BEST in the WORLD was warming the BENCH at Mexico. No sooner that we noticed that WE IN THE MIND WERE SURE OF A 2-1 OR A 3-1 VICTORY AGAISNT INDIA IF WE PLAYED INFDIA IN THE FIANLS. I have TWO Olympic Gold pl;aying at that position for Pakistan, HOW MANY HAS INAM who was the WORLD BEST as we Pakistani thought it about him then. THAT OPENED MY EYE .

I went onto ask- WHAT ARE THE BACKGROUND OF THESE PAKISTANI’S WHO ARE PLAYING HOCKEY , AND WHAT ARE THEIR QUALIFICATION ?. I was told by him that most of the players that represents Pakistan are the one’s whose parents are either the Sepoys in the Pakistani Army or at the Government Departments of Pakistan but holding a very LOW post, very very LOW post and many of them are the one’s whose Father’s ares selling PAANI-PURI, or something on the street in their THELAS to earn their living. These are the one’s who play Hockey at Pakistan and no sooner that we find them are very good at HOCKEY we bring them to our fold and with the kind of a TRAINING that we impart it to them , which revolves around the NECCESSITY of the team and MOULD them JUST-FOR-THE-SAKE of the team, we carry on with them. The others are given some financial aids like some jobs in the railways or in some organization so that they continue to play Hockey but are NOT considered good enough to represent Pakistan in Hockey. This is how we move in Pakistan with our players that comes from the Junior rank and that makes it into the Senior rank.

HERE IT WAS MY HEAD WENT INTO A WRANGLE, WRICKLE AND FOR A SPIN.

There it was where those FATHER’S producing SON’S who were considered to be GOOD to play HOCKEY for Pakistan, were taken into the FOLD for MOULDING them into a GREAT players. Here was it that a SHAHID NOOR WHOSE FATER WAS SELLING SAMOSA AT THE STREET OF BHOPAL AND JALLALUDDIN WHOSE FATHER WAS SELLING RGGS AT THE OPEN STREET OF BHOPAL WERE NOT GIVEN ANY CHANCES TO PLAY FOR INDIA IN THE FIRST ELEVEN- BECAUSE THEIR FATHERS WERE SELLING THESE COMMODITIES ACCORDING TO THE INDIN COACHES >>>>>>>>> OH!!!!! , THE DIFFERENCE IN THOUGHT.

Thereafter I asked him- HOW MANY ASTRO TURFS ARE THERE IN PAKISTAN AND WHAT IS ASTRO TURF. Ishla Bhai explained me EVERYTHING about the ASTRO-TURF and the way it is maintained in Pakistan. He said me that there are TWO at this present moment in Pakistan and that these were laid due to the courtest of the Pakistan International Airlines which has recruited many players from Pakistan that now plays for Pakistan at present both from the Junior and the Senior rank, beside the Karachi Customs that under my recommendation recruits them. Unless and until we SEE A PROBABILITY OF A GOLD MEDAL COMING THROUGH THEM FOR PAKISTAN WE DO NOT RECRUIT ANY PLAYERS OF A LESS OR LESSOR QUALITY IN THESE TWO TEAMS. That is where we DO NOT COMPROMISE at all.

Pic :: A letter to me by Mrs Uma Umesh Dhyanchand the DAUGHTER-IN-LAW of Major Dhaynchand .

Here it was ME who was all the TIME thinking all about CHARANJIT KUMAR PLAYING FOR INDIA AT THE OUTSIDE RIGHT POSITION . STRANGE- I WOULD FEEL AND WAS FEELING when I heard Ishla Bahi stating me these facts.

WE DO NOT COMPROMISE ON THE QUALITY OF OUR HOCKEY TO MINGLE IT WITH ABOVE AVERAGE AND SOME AVERAGE. PERFECTNESS and PRECISION is our KEY of selection and PODIUM - ONE- VICTORY is the SIGHT for us. WE DO NOT THINK ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS when it comes to Pakistan Hockey. Here it is HOW TO GET THAT CHIEF COMMANDENT’S SON of B.S.F or that DIRECTOR GENERAL OF PUNJAB POLICE SON INTO THE TEAM SO THAT HE MANAGES A JOB IN THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION.

This is pakistan’s TRACK RECORD from 1978 after they won the WORLD CUP at Buenos Aires at Argentina-:

S.No	Year	Name Of The Tourney	Winner	Runners-Up	Scores	Name Of The Captain
1	1978	World Cup Buenos Aires	Pakistan	Holland/Netherland	3-2	Ishlauddin Siddique

2	1978	Asian Games, Bangkok	Pakistan	India	1-0	Ishlauddin

3	1979	Esanda International Hockey	Pakistan	Holland/Netherland	5-2	Ishlauddin Siddique

4	1981	World Cup Hockey, Bombay	Pakistan	West Germany	3-1	Akhtar Rasool

5	1982	Asian games, New Delhi	Pakistan	India	1-0	Samiullah Khan

6	1982	Asia Cup Hockey ,Karachi	Pakistan	India	4-0	Manzur-Ul-Hasan

7	1984	Olympics Los Angeles	Pakistan	West Germany	2-1	Manzur-Ul-Hasan

When I asked some more facts about the state of mind that Pakistani had while playing against india in the Hockey match from 1968 to about say 1980, he openly said this-:

A0. In the World Cup in the 1971 at Barcelona, infact EVERYBODY in the WORLD and EVERYBODY at Pakistan and everybody in the Pakistan team had completely assured themselves that it would be INDIA who would win the Cup. The reason was Balbir Singh Junior, who was then employed at the Northern railways, and Shahid Noor as well as Inam-Ur-Rehman . We surely had NO equals to run on the parallel with them though we had a very strong side that had won the 1968 Olympics and the 1970 Asian Games and almost it was the same Pakistani side which was participating in the FIRST WORLD CUP Hockey at Barcelona.

When we landed at Barcelona the first thing we found was that Balbir Singh Senior was not playing along with Inam-Ur-Rehman for India. That made us sure by 45% to win the Cup. We were very SCARED of Shahid Noor playing for India. When we saw the SCORE BOARD and the PLAY GAMR BOARD that Shahid Noor name did not figure in the list of the players that would play for India even though he was a member of that team, WE TOLD TO OURSELF- IF EVEN INDIA SURGES US BY 2-0 AGAINST US WE WOULD AT ANYTIME LEVEL THE SCORE AND WIN IT BY 3-2. Infact even before the match started against India in the semis at Barcelona, before the match we DISTRIBUTED sweets to our fans and we danced BHANGRA celebrating our victory against India. It happened that way .India led us 1-0 at the breather and we won that by 2-1.

Infact I was going to say Islah Bhai that both the goals scored by Pakistan against us were FOUL and UNDERCUTTING but as a GUEST and NOT TO distract him to make him unhappy- I KEPT MUMM to let the matter go.

He was very fortright to say that from 1970 to the 1975 when India won that World Cup, India always had better players than as compared, but when it came to win it was Pakistan BECAUSE Pakistan would not compromise on QUALITY and PICTURE-PERFECTNESS to represent them whereas India would do that. It was evident in the manner when Inam, Balbir Singh and Shahid Noor kind of a player were NOT playing or representing India in the International’s and that would make the THINGS very very easy for us.

India infact everytime that it selected it’s Hockey team right from 1956, it had several players who were just an average or below average to play for them. However India somehow managed to win in 1956, 1964 and in 1980 because ONE of them took and played SINGLE-HANDEDLY for India and somehow the LUCK favoured us.

It happened in 1956 when Balbir Singh Senior played it supported fully by Shankar Laxman at the goal, in 1964 when SHANKAR LAXMAN singlehandedly played the GAME of the CENTURY then to deny Pakistan of a victory and at 1980 when Mohammed Shahid single handedly won that GOLD for India even when SEVEN of the QUALITY Hockey playing nation including Pakistan were NOT playing at Moscow in the 1980 Olympics.

Pic - :: Mohammed Shahid in that start of a run where his final goal against Spain gave us the GOLD

The 1964 Olympic Gold and the 1966 Asian gamed Medal Gold was just due the FACT that SHANKAR LAXMAN played what could be termed as NEVER-TO-BE-WITNESSED in the annals of Hockey in the goal for ever. Right, Left and the center from a hand shaking distance to the penalty stroke to the penalty corners the PAKISTANI’S COULD NOT BEAT COULD NOT BEAT HIM AND COULD NOT BEAT HIM AT ALL. At times he was supported to some by Harbinder Singh at the forward or maybe by someone in the half but he ALONE was the SAVIOUR of Indian Hockey and it’s prestige from post 1962 after India had lost to Pakistan by 2-0 at the Djakarta Asian games to 1967 when he finally retired from Hockey.

Pic - :: Shankar Laxman saving a DEFINITE goal of a Pakistani Forward who takes a STING at the Goal

So much so that in 1966 after the Asian games Hockey final, to pay him the GREATEST respect, Brigadier atif brought the entire Pakistani team to the Indian camp and they encircled Laxman and TOSED him on the AIR to pay their GREAT respect to that GREATEST-EVER-HOCKEY-GOALKEEPER born to the WORLD-OF-HOCKEY.

Pic - :: The “ TRUTH ” of the 1964 Olympic Finals where most of the times Indians courtesy Shankar Laxman were saving the goal. As many as SEVEN Indian are seen inside their "D" at the goal.

Another reason why India did produce a very bad example of playing BAD Hockey and at times winning and at times losing to Pakistan in the finals was Inam was probably dropped because in those days the traumas of “ Partition ” were still “ fresh ” in people’s minds. There was the feeling that “ Muslim ” players did not give off their best against Pakistan. The final with Pakistan was inevitable and so Inam was subsequently dropped.

My meeting With Air Marshal Of Pakistan -::

The Pakistani team, the Junior were at Nagpur to play the THIRD match of that Indian leg series against India. Pakistan were down by 0-1 against India till then in that series.A goal by Yadav for India had sunk Pakistan in the dying minutes of that game.

Came Nagpur and Mr Noor Khan was Nagpur .No sooner that he landed THERE WAS A PIN DROP SILENCE AT THE PAKISTANI CAMP .It appeared that SECTION 144 was clamped at the Pakistani camp at and as the Hockey players of Pakistan were LIPPED tight and it appeared that they had all LOST-THEIR-VOICE. The ESSENCE of ISLAM-KHARAY-MAI-HAI that we often use to hear while in our School and College days was evident. I could feel that.

It was a TWENTY minutes of a session by Mr Noor Khan with the Pakistani players while I waited for my turn outside to meet him as he had asked me to wait for twenty minutes then. Excatly after twenty minutes when I saw the Pakistani players coming out of the meeting it APPEARD that somebody had spilled the RED-HOT-MOLTEN –IRON on their face. Their face was RED and they were SHIVERING. Came my chance.

As I met him a bottle of Coca-Cola greeted me. I was asked whether I had my LUNCH which I somehow managed to duck that . I NEVER WANTED ANY LUNCH TO BE SERVED as that was against my PRINCIPLE to have it when on a duty for HITAVADA then.

It was a CHANCE of a LIFETIME to talk with that GREAT man who totally MADE the Pakistani Hockey team to appear what it was appearing and he took it from the state of decomposition and made it a WORLD-CONQUERING-SIDE with total DISCIPLINE and ONE-KIND-OF-A-NATIONAL-THOUGHT and that was TO-WIN-AT-EVERYTHING. It was so much of an education to learn from that man all about DISCIPLINE and DEDICATION in sports and in any walk of LIGFE.

OI still remember ONE sentence he said me- SIRF EK CHEEJH JINADAGI MAI AAP UTHA LOH, AUR USPAR SACCHEY DHYAN SAY LAGE RAHO- ALLAH BHI TUMHARAY SAAMNAY TUMHARAY PAIRON PAR GIR PAADEGA means just choose ONE thing that you want to do in LIFE and put everything into it SINCERELY with all DEVOTION and DEICATION along with SACRIFICE that you have to do. Even the ALMIGHT will fall onto your toe to accept hos defeat.

Pakistan and it’s Hockey reached to it’s NADIR in 1972 when as many as ELEVEN players were BANNED for LIFE-TIME in 1972 after the Munich Olympics. “ IT WAS HARD- VERY HARD SAID THAT CHIEF OF PAKISTAN AIR FORCE TO ME”, very hard to revert back the BAN which we could do THANKS to india as well as we did receive some SUPPORT from India. That ban was reduced to THREE YEARS .For those three years we could not do much I international sector but we started in the right earnest with a complete FOCUS on 1977 as we knew that it would take atleast FIVE years to be the BEST and EVER BEST in the WORLD.

Two Astro-Turfs laid at Karachi and Lahore by 1977 . Our players were made to practice which was divided into THREE session.The first session was to RUN barefoot on the LOOSE sand at the RIVULETS and the RIVER to strengthen the TOE and the Feet as well as the calf muscles. This we would do four days a week,

The second session was all for the basics and the trade of the Hockey like the art of dribbling, the art of passing the ball first time, the art of cleanly tackling the ball DEAD STOP, the art of taking and saving the penalty corners. This we would do and make the players to do it for two hours at a stretch. Specialised players were made to practice the special job as a specialist or to make them a specialist in that field like running to thwart the penalty corners, to push the penalty psuh so perfectly, to stip that DEAD and NEATLY and then to strike it at the goal with different variations and from different angles. Then came the strokes for which we selected as many as TEN players out fo the eleven and made them to take about 100 strokes each per player with the Goalkeper standing there at the goal to stop them.Thereafter it was the team play which was played for about two hours NON-STOP everytime that the players practiced. There would be a REST between thse sessions and a COMPLTETE REST for TWO days per week.On the REST DAY every shortcoming's and every weaknesses were explained I MINUTES and in DETAILS to everybody to overcome them.

THE TEAM IS A STAR, NOBODY INDIVIDUALLY IS A “ STAR ” -:

The FIRST thing I made it very CLEAR to one and SUNDRY playing Hockey in Pakistan is- NO BODY INDIVIDUALLY IS A STAR. THE PAKISTAN TEAM BECOMES A STAR WHEN ALL THE ELEVEN COMBINE AS A TEAM TO WIN .

Anybody who THINKS himself as a STAR would be “ KICKED-OUT ” and they perhaps might have to LOOSE their jobs. Anybody who INDULGES in INDISCIPLINE of any kind and MANNER would be SACKED from the team immediately, all his BENEFITS and the remains which also wopuld include the proceeds from ther BENEFIT matches and the compensation form the Government WOULD-BE-SCRAPPED for ever. NO- COMPROMISE-ON-QUALITY-AND-THE DISCIPLINE-AT-ALL, NEVER

The eleven who would play in the FIRST eleven will have to be EQUAL to the ELEVEN who would wait for their TURN for them to come to the field and execute it for Pakistan. The FRESH STRENGTH that a SUBSTITUTE would bring in would have to be EQUAL to the LOSS-OF-STRENGTH by that who is being replaced by the FRESH LEG and that is what the ENDURANCE and the STAMINA that it had to be. That is what will make a TEAM and NOT and NEVER the INDIVIDUAL stars.

That was evident when I saw that Pakistani side when it outbeat India by 3-1 and WHAT A COMBINED TEAM GAME THAT IT PLAYED It was a TREAT to see them playing that way and in that manner. It was a COMPLETE team game as compared to the Indian’s who were playing on an individual basis. In that game when Ishtiaque Ahmed completely BLOCKED Mohammed Nain who till then wa having a GREAT time on the filed with his SQUEEZING-IN and gap taking advantage , was completely WIPED AWAY by feet from Ishtiaque on that day in that game and WHEN he ie Mohammed Naim was done way- IT WAS ONE WAY TRAFFIC BY PAKISTAN . It was Nain Tahir, Quasim Zia and Ayaz Mehmood who scored on that day. The REAL WRIST play of TRADITIONAL Pakistani Hockey was evident when Salim Sherwani their Inside Right made TWO runs with his wrist TALKING and SINGING those URDU GHAZALS and Pakistan BLEW away india with those to WIRSTY SWERVES which fetched them TWO goals. The Indians were NO-MATCH to them on that day inspite of the fact that India was having Mohammed Naim, Mohinderpal Singh , Sujeet Kumar and S.A.H.Aidi kind of JEWELS in the side.India totally appeard JADED, and DISORIENTED with no GAME-SENCE at all to face Pakistan on that day.

Their CHIEF Air Marshal Noor Khan was seated for thar game. During the interval he JUST glanced at me at the ptress box where I was seated covering that match for the HITAVADA. Somehow I ACTED in an manner as if I’m so MUCH concentrated on the game to cover that match wherein in REALITY I was NOT possessing that kind of a STRENGTH at all to meet his eye with my own eye. It was a TRANSFORMED and a CLINICAL-PICTURE-PERFECT Pakistani team which was so different to watch and feel their HEAT.

Coming back to the conversation that I jad it with him at the C.P.Circuit Guest House at Nagpur, he plainly told me that during that time every Pakistani player who represented Pakistan were employed mainly with either the Pakistan International Airlines or the Karachi Customs and were paid a monthly salaty of Pakistani Rupees 2000=00 per month . There were some who were the GRADUATES in the team who were paid a little more. THERE WAS NO CHANCE OF ANY INCREMENT AT ALL UNLESS HE WAS QUALIFIED ENOUGH FOR A RAISE OR HE DID NOT WIN ANY GOLD FOR PAKISTAN AT ALL. This was PRIMARILY the reason for Pakistan to win the GOLD-AFTER-GOLDS from 1978 to 1984 as every player who played for that side and for Pakistan during that time wanted a RAISE in the salary and a chance for PROMOTION.

He was VERY FRANK enough to say that the Pakistani Goalkeeper of that team Shahid Ali Khan was PAID only RUPEES TWENTY SEVEN par day. It was because HE was not qualified at all and that he till then DID NOT WIN ANY GOLD MEDAL for Pakistan in Hockey. Once he did that HE WOULD FIND HIMSELF ON THE PAR WITH OTHER’S but then he will have to WIN it and PROVE his mettle. Only then the ENIFITS come to him. From 1981 when I saw Shahid Ali Khan on that day till about 1988 Shahid Ali Khan had won FOUR GOLD for Pakistan in four different tourney and then came the MOMENT- HE WAS THE NATIONAL GOALKEEPER COACH OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL TEAM AND A PERSONNEL OF PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES. His LIFE had changed . From a Rs 27=000 per day he was their NATIONAL HERO with his life changed for ever.

It was in 1981when the entire Pakistani team players were offered job after their WORLD CUP win at India. Everybody were asked- a “JOB ” “ OR A “ TOYOTA CAR ” , and except ONE, Hanif Khan who went to lead Pakistan against India in the 1985 Asia Cup Finals at Dhaka who preferred a TOYOTA CAR the others were given a JOB by the Pakistani Government courtesy Air Marshal Noor Khan. That is what the Pakistani team was made out of.

For an act of an indiscipline which Salim Sherwani their centre forward player did at Malaysia when he KISSED a lady, a ROOM SERVICE ATTENDING personnel , at Malaysia when the Pakistani team were touring Malaysia to play a series of Hockey matches at their country, he was IMMEDIATELY SACKED and his job with the Pakistan International Airlines was taken away without any REMORSE……..

Pakistan at that period of time were moving in the direction where it required them to move with the right kind of a process that needed them to be on the top and they did not not compromise with their style and the system which they played keeping the traditional Asian Style of the game intact. They kept on validating in between the place within their style where they felt that the variation was so necessary. Their game was completely based on the team game with no extra indulgence by anybody on the flair that could be termed as individual. Individual brilliance if at all found a place, it found it for them to score those goals combined and there were no space for anybody to become an individual star. It was the team and it’s standing that everybody was made to play for.That made them outstandingly to be singled as the team worth winning those medals.

This is what India had been since the 1978 World Cup-:

S.No	Year	Name Of The Tourney	Venue	Standing	Captain Of The Team	Score Card
1	1978	World Cup Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires	Sixth	V.J.Phillips	Lost To Spain 0-2
2	1978	Asian Games	Bangkok	Second	B.P.Govinda	Lost To Pakistan 0-1
3	1979	Esanda Internationals	Australia	Fifth	Ashok Kumar
4	1980	Olympics	Moscow	First	Vasudevan Bhaskaran	Beat Spain 4-3
5	1981	World Cup	Bombay	Fifth	Surjit Singh
6	1982	Asian Games	New Delhi	Second	Surjit Singh	Lost to pakistan by 1-7
7	1983	Esanda Internationals	Australia	Second	Zafar Iqbal	Lost to australia by 1-6
8	1984	Olympics	Los Angeles	Fifth	Zafar Iqbal	Beat Holland by 5-2

This really signifies and spells out the difference of the direction that the two countries were moving. Pakistan last won the World Cup in 1994 under the captainship of Shahbaz Ahmed Khan and there at in that tournament India under Pargat Singh finished FIFTH.

What is needed by Hockey India-:

The first thing that is needed by Hockey India to get into the act is to start the Nehru Cup Championship which I think is not played at all now. That is a must. That is one tournament which threw a cluster of young and good players for India.

It is not seen whether an Indian Airlines team exists to play in these kind of a tournament but these are the teams along with Punjab Police, B.S.F. and many from the defense and Army that really threw players for India and the Jawaharlal Nehru is the place where the seeds of the Indian Hockey were sown. Indian Airlines now does not exists and that is one of the reason that the players have stopped coming to the forefront. The other teams exists but it is hard to say that they play Hockey. Without the B.S.F, the Punjab Police and the other institutional team, HOCKEY WILL NOT SURVIVE AT ALL IN INDIA.

You may have many and many a Hockey Premier League. It is just NOT-SO-GOOD to earn money as they earn in the I.P.L .Some booty would be earned by the players but that will not help. It is a must that institution has to promote recruiting the players to play Hockey and to make the Indian Hockey survive. Teams from the railways, Airlines, Petroleum Board, Defense, and some teams from certain quarter funded by individuals have been and were the cause and the reason for Hockey India to survive, and that threw in a number of player. That is how the India Hockey survived. That is the ONLY way out for Indian Hockey to survive. Unless and until Indian Hockey has the Institutions serving the purpose I DO NOT SEE THE HOCKEY PLAYERS AND THE INDIAN HOCKEY SURVIVING AT ALL. THAT IS A MUST.

It is imperative to know that the Hocky players only SURVIVE in India through these kind of institution. They play Hockey FIRST to REPRSENT the country and to win ATLEAST one medal. Then comes the job.

These Hockey players do come from a very ORDINARY background and most of them are NOT EDUCATED at all to know the vagaries of life. Ever since Hockey flourished at India, the players playing always had joined ether the Army or the Police or the Bank of which the Punjab national bank was the most important one as an institution to provide them with a job and all security .

There was a time when Manipur threw a lot of Hockey players and in 1980 they were the Runners-Up in the Junior National Championship.That was the time when L.Tikken Singh, Neelkamal Singh, Thoiba Singh, Kuljeet Meetai came up to the scene of Indian Hockey .The Manipur Government later gave it up and disbanded their Sports Hostel under the SAI for Hockey.The reason was that the Hockey players were not able to find a job for them. THAT KILLED INDIAN HOCKEY as thee Manipurians really were tremendous and very ATTRACTIVE Hockey players that we saw and that India got it then.

If this country does not encourages the Institution at large with the defense, the Banks and other such sectors to induce Hockey players in their rank THE FUTURE OF INDIAN HOCKEY WOULD BE A BIG ZERO AND HOCKEY IN INDIA WILL DIE.

These institution will have to let the players under their FOLD to play the Indian Hockey League . That they should NOT discourage their players to play. It is imperative for India to have a Hockey league in the lines of a professional tourney and the players ought to play in these tourney beside carrying out with their job.

Similarly the Junior Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournaments for the School ought to be restarted with only the School Boy’s that should be allowed to participate in it. This ought to be played on the natural ground. Better it would be if everytime two or three National School team one from Europe, one from Pakistan and one either from Asia or Australia ought to be invited to play in this tourney. That would be the correct process to move ahead with. As said these matches ought to be played on the natural grass and NOT on the Astro-Turf at all.

Again there ought to be the All-India Inter University Hockey tournament that has to take place. These are the THREE most important Hockey matches and tournament's that has to restart and take the occurrences immediately within a short spell of time and as soon as possible.

MANAGEMENT AT THE ZONAL LEVEL

The entire Hockey has to be reshaped and redrawn with as many as FIVE Zone’s to be selected to catch the youngsters at different places. There at the East Zone a spotter who has played immense Hockey for India has to spot the youngster with special emphasis laid on first knowing the players who are well versed with the basics of Hockey. That is more important .

As I have explained earlier, the spotters ought to go at different places at West Zone, South Zone, North Zone and Central Zone to select these Hockey players who would be the juniors or the kids as we say and bring them to the Zonal School for training them for Hockey.

These Zonal School could be at Ranchi as the Centre for East Zone as the Adivasis are from that area. All the Adivasis playing Hockey at Orissa and Ranchi area can be put into that Zonal School of Hockey which could be termed as East Zone Zonal School for hockey, Ranchi. Similarly there ought to be the same system followed for the other Zone. The West Zone Zonal school could be at Khadki at Pune, the South Zone Zonal School could be at Bangalore, the North Zone could be at Jullundur and the North east Zonal School could be at Manipur at Imphal where all the boy’s playing Hockey at the North Eastern region could be put at Manipur.

The Mode Of selecting The Buddies To Bring them To These School’s

We have to be VERY FAITHFULL to ourself to really catch the BEST of the youngsters playing Hockey at the start of their career to these schools. The guy on whom you have the eye ought to be a HOCKEY material in all sense. There will be many instances where one would have to compromise but that ought to be given a back seat. In India there are examples for example the TATA FOOTBALL ACADEMY. The SPOTTERS brought the guys who were far off from football but were the relatives and relations of the spotters. They brought them so that somehow they learn football. The other facilities provided at the Academy takes care of many a things that in hindsight these would not have even got them .The main aim to do all these was that somehow after clearing from the Academy, he might get a team for the name sake and play a few matches for the famed club and from there it would be a JOB in the Railways or in the State Police or in the C.R.P.F or in B.S.F. A lot of them went that way and football was LOST/This needs to be completely reversed in terms of HOCKEY.

WHEN YOU ARE BEING SELECTED AT THESE ACADEMY NOTHING SHORT OF A GOLD IS REQUIRED FROM YOU FIRST IN THE ASIANS, THEN IN THE COMMOMWEALTH GAMES AND FINALLY IN THE OLYMPICS. That is it.

THIS IS THE AIM WITH WHICH THE HOCKEY ACADEMY AT HOLLAND, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY AND PAKISTAN RUNS WITH AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO ALSO KEEP IN MIND

WE INDIANS- right from the time of Prithiviraj Chauhan we have a HABIT- “ SELL OURSELF ” AND “ COMPROMISE ” WITH THE CONSCIENCE.

That is the point and that was the occasion from where we became a SLAVE.It was December 12^th 1191 that we became a slave and that continued for about August 15^th 1947 roughly for 756 years. ONLY FOOLS CAN AFFORD TO BE THAT and we are a COUNTRY of 135 CRORES – 543 MINUS – 5 FAMILY- FOOLS that resides here at INDIA and I’M THE “ GREATEST ” OF THEM .What we possess is a PEANUT and we think that we have GOT everything in our life. That is FOLLOISHNESS to say but that is what we are BORN. We are FOOLS !!.

If we compromise on the QUALITY for the sake of some benefits- THE OLD-GOLD DAYS OG INDIAN HOCKEY WILL NEVER COME BACK AT ALL- NEVER.

These players ought to be selected by the spotters from-:

1). Watching them at the Jawaharlal Junior School Tournament played at New Delhi by a highly extremely spotters like Aslam Sher Khan, Ashok Kumar, Ajitpal Singh, V.J.Phillips , kind of Hockey players rather than Dilip Tirkey, Dhanraj Pillay , Sardara Singh to name them…… We missed a GLORIOUS opportunity by totally neglecting MICHAEL KINDO to utilize him to spot the talent at Jharkhand and Orissa who play HOCKEY at these places to win that KHASIA on the Sunday. Michael could have given us many , many and many good BUDS that could have been translated into the flowers in the time to come.

2). The spotters would have to go from places to places within their zone where Hockey is played to bring these lads who do have a real potential of becoming a very good hockey players. These have to be caught, abd brought at the correct time to the academy for training and putting them to the correct places.

3). A National Sub-Junior Hockey tournament and a National Junior Hockey tournament which are NEVER and NOT played at all now has to be put into the place soon. I remember the year 1972 and 1976. In 1972 the National Junior threw Aslam Sher Khan and Zahid Noor to Indian Hockey and in 1976 when Bombay beat Bihar in the finals we saw M.M.Somayya, Joaquim Carvalho, and Dung-Dung, Gopal Bhengra from Bihar emerging out. These are the GOLD MEDALLIST of Indian Hockey in the Olympics. STRANGE- THE TWO TOURNEY NOW ARE NEVER PLAYED AT ALL. How can you expect to get the toddlers who have HOCKEY in them to play Hockey for India at all , if you do not have the process to bring them in to play Hockey at all for India.

3). Find out the Schools where the Hockey game is played and the district that conducts INTER-SCHOOL Hockey within the Zone. Visit the places and watch the guys playing Hockey. Bring the outstanding players to the academy and start imparting the training that could make them a good Hockey players.

PRECISE – TARGET

Target a point to achieve that standard. For example say the ranchi Hockey Zone School. These adivasis’s make a tremendous DEFENDERS, Train them in the manner that you get at least TWO solid defenders to defend at the left , two solid defenders to defend at the right and two solid defenders to convert the penalty corners. This academy to say id a East Zone Hockey School specializing in producing STO:LID – SOLID defenders. Similarly the North Zone Hockey School specializes in producing SOLID-STOLID penalty Corners specialists. Most of the penalty corners specialist of India were AND have been the Sardarji’s. These Sardars are strong, bodily built very strong to play HARD HOCKEY.This ought to be mixed with the PENALTY CORNERS taking and converting these corners into the goal.That is how the Zonal School ought to specialize in ONE particular arena. Now say the Central Zone Hockey School which is located at say Lucknow.This is the Uttar Pradesh which has produced players like Ali Zafar, Zafar, K.D.Singh Babu, Major Dhyanchand, Mohammed Shahid to cite as an example. These were the CLASSES and OVER CLASS of forwards. The players of UP, and the players that comes out from the M.P. and Maharashtra belt mostly become WORLD-FAMOUS FORWARDS. 80% of the famed Indian Forwards have come out from this region that played Hockey. Hence this Hockey School of the I.H.F ought to specialize on producing that kind of forwards.

REQUIREMENT

The concept of the requirement is the must.

If the forward playing the modern hockey requires a bit of dribbling, the focus has to be on that to get and produce the dribblers. If the half line needs to distribute the ball correctly to the flanks the focus ought to be on that. COMPLETE team game coupled with the area of specialization to the players ought to be the requirement and the focus ought to be on it. This is how the players and the boy’s ought to come and this is what is going to make the team as a COMPLETE team.

Talking to Air Marshal Noor Khan and Ishlauddin this is what I could understand Pakistan was doing to build it’s Hockey players that produced that kind of a result between 1978 to 1984 for a period of six years . Infact Ishlauddin was saying me that India has such a terrific players who do not play for India but are even better than some that platys for Pakistan. He saw some Indian players playing for Indian Airlines against the Pakistan Airlines at Bombay in the Bombay Gold Cup. He was referring to S.A.H. Abdi who he said was the BEST-IN-THE-BUSINESS to stop the penalty corners pust to DEAD. So many, many and Many a GOALS were scored by the combo of Mohinderpal Singh and S.A.H.Abdi for Indian Airlines. Infact in his entire career Mohinder Pal Singh had scored about 500 goals for himself- 90 for india and 410 for Indian Airlines, but never did he get a S.A.H.Abdi to play at all for India. Inspite of possessing such a huge talent and such a huge Hockey in him- after all he was coached by K.D.Singh Babu at the Sports Hostel Lucknow, HE DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO PLAY FOR INDIA. Had he got tham Mohinderpal Singh would have finished with 125 plus for India and perhaps India could have added atleast one or two more medals in Hockey between 1883 to 1988 .That was INDIA’S LOSS but AIRLINES GAIN.

Virender Bahadur Singh and Mohinderpal Singh were the TALK OF THE LIPS at India between 1981 to 1988 . IT WAS BECAUSE OF S.A.H ABDI WHO WAS STOPPING THE BALL DEAD AND THESE DUO OF INDIAN AIRLINES WERE MURDERING THE OPPONENTS and the Airlines authorities were always saying- BHAI HAMARE PASS AUR JAGAH NAHI HAI TROPHY RAKHNE KOH which means that BROTHERS, WE ARE SHORT OF SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE THESE TROPHIES at our Head Quarters.

The Asian Junior Hockey was played at New Delhi in 1988.pakistan won that championship beating South Korea by 5-2 in the finals. Shahbaz Ahmed was leading Pakistan. I once again mer Islauddin at the stadium and was speaking to him. About India in that tournament, he just said to me- ATIF IDRIS KOH CHECK KARO. Joh HAMARA SHAHBAZ HAI, WHO AAPKA ATIF HAI. It means keep a tab on Atif, he is to India what Shahbaz is to Pakistan. Shahbaz won that World Cup for Pakistan in 1994 leading them. CAN I ASK- WHERE IS ATIF. He was with Indian Airlines, that much I know. Atif Idris was playing for India in that Junior Asia Cup, was adjudicated as the BEST in the tournament. He was COACHED by Mohammed Shahid at Varanasi as Atif was from Varanasi. STRANGE- HOCKEY INDIA DID NOT SELECT ATIF IDRIS AT ALL TO PLAY FOR INDIA WHEREAS BOTH MOHAMMED SHAHID ONCE AND THERE, ISHLAUDDIN WERE SAYING THAT HE SHOULD BE AT THE SENIOR TEAM.

ATIF IDRIS WHAT I SAW WAS A XEROX COPY OF MOHAMMED SHAHID, and not playing him was LOSS-OF-INDIA-AND-INDIAN-HOCKEY . This mentality of KILLING the players in India is not new. However , has come now, the time to KILL out attitude to SELECT the AVERAGE and HOPE to win the GOLD at Internationals.

YOU CANNOT GET A CAKE IF YOU USE THE SHITS, FOR THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE “ MAIDA ” and not the “ FLOUR ” .

Another focus on the requirement ought to be the necessity on the individual skill to the extent that is needed for the moment but NOT FOR ALL THE OCASSION. No doubt ASHOK KUMAR and MWRWYN FERNANDES were such a GRACE and CLASS to watch when they were with the ball. Both were so accurate that ask them to make a POINT of the head of an ALPIN and then take the ball over I, they would do it with such a precision BUT THEY WERE TOO INDIVIDUALISTIC AND HANGED WITH THE BALL TOO MUCH On many an occasion that spoiled the moves. This habit of being INDIVIDUALISTIC is what KILLS the MOVES and ultimately the TEAM.

Pakistan had many many and many such dribblers in Asad Mallik, Khalid Mehmood, Abdul Rashid Junior, Ishlauddin, Shahnaz Sheikh, Samiullah Khan, Hasan Sardar, Mohammed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Shahbaz Ahmed, however their COACH would see that they DID NOT HANG TOO MUCH WITH THE BALL and if they did that he would immediately replace the player. Hasan Sardar in the Esanda World Cup international during his formative stage in that tourney was replaced as many a five times in that touney while playing. The reason was HE WAS HANGING WITH THE BALL TO MUCH. This habit of individualistic attitude ought to be warded off right from the moment the boys are trained from the stage where they start. Afterwards it becomes a habit and that mars the process and the progress of the team. Ashok and Merwyn were to individualistic at times .That was not good though BOTH OF THEM WERE JEWEL AND A WORLD CLASS ACT WHEN IT CME TO SEE THE CLASS AND MAGIC OF DRIBBLING. Mohammed Shahis was not in that manner but he was ABOVE all in the matter of BALL-CONTROL-DRIBBLING. WHAT A “ MAGIC ” WAS HE !!. … That again was the TRAINING and the COACHING that was imparted to him by K.D.Singh Babu at the Sports Hostel at Lucknow from 1976 to 1978. That is what is coaching.

The concept of the FIRST-TIME-CLEARANCE and FIRST – TIME-PASSING does not ARISE it seems in Indian Hockey. If that was there INDIA WOULD HAVE SQUARED THE MATCH AGAINST PAKISTAN EVEN against AFTER TRAILING BY 0-2 GAIANST PAKISTAN AT MUNICH IN 1972 AND COULD HAVE BEATEN HOLLAND BY 3-2 IN THE WORLD CUP 1973.The reason was most of the Indians hanged too much with the ball rather than the FIRST-TIME-PASS and FIRST TIME CLEARANCE. That ultimately scrapped India by a goal within that 70 minutes of play. That first time clearance which was not done by Surjit Singh made India to concede the second goal against Holland in 1973 .That was something that made India to lose that finals.

THESE ARE THE THINGS ON WHICH THE TRAINING AND COACHING OUGHT TO BE MADE AND IMPARTED.Only this would make a TEAM and NEVER the INDIVIDUALS. That is what Air Marshal Noor Khan was telling me on 21-02-1982 at Nagpur, the day I had met him at Nagpur and the day when Pakistan whipped India by 3-1 to square the series after being beaten by 0-1 at Hyderabad. That was in 1981. Again in 1986 Pakistan was whipped by 6-3 with Mohammed Shahid scoring TWO-UNBELIEVABLE goals for India in that match .But it was a Test series between these two teams and NOT an International tourney. Afterwards when the match was over the Pakistani Manager of that squad who was a HIGH-FLY Army Officer said- YOUR MOHAMMED SHAHID IS A JEWEL OF HARD WORK OF SO MANY A YEARS BUT THEN IT IS THE TITLES WHICH MATTER FOR PAKISTAN AND NOT A SERIES LOSS. For every series that Pakistan was losing to India it was winning the GOLDS and the MEDALS for them placing them on a HIGHER scale as compared, and THAT IS WHAT THE MINDSET OUGHT TO BE .

The Mode Of selecting The Buddies To Bring them To These School’s

We have to be VERY FAITHFULL to ourself to really catch the BEST of the youngsters playing Hockey at the start of their career to these schools. The guy on whom you have the eye ought to be a HOCKEY material in all sense. There will be many instances where one would have to compromise but that ought to be given a back seat. In India there are examples for example the TATA FOOTBALL ACADEMY. The SPOTTERS brought the guys who were far off from football but were the relatives and relations of the spotters. They brought them so that somehow they learn football. The other facilities provided at the Academy takes care of many a things that in hindsight these would not have even got them .The main aim to do all these was that somehow after clearing from the Academy, he might get a team for the name sake and play a few matches for the famed club and from there it would be a JOB in the Railways or in the State Police or in the C.R.P.F or in B.S.F. A lot of them went thatway and football was LOST/This needs to be completely reversed in terms of HOCKEY.

WHEN YOU ARE BEING SELECTED AT THESE ACADEMY NOTHING SHORT OF A GOLD IS REQUIRED FROM YOU FIRST IN THE ASIANS, THEN IN THE COMMOMWEALTH GAMES AND FINALLY IN THE OLYMPICS. That is it.

THIS IS THE AIM WITH WHICH THE HOCKEY ACADEMY AT HOLLAND, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY AND PAKISTAN RUNS WITH AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO ALSO KEEP IN MIND

WE INDIANS- right from the time of Prithiviraj Chauhan we have a HABIT- “ SELL OURSELF ” AND “ COMPROMISE ” WITH THE CONSCIENCE.

That is the point and that was the occasion from where we became a SLAVE. It was December 12^th 1191 that we became a slave and that continued for about August 15^th 1947 roughly for 756 years. ONLY FOOLS CAN AFFORD TO BE THAT and we are a COUNTRY of 135 CRORES – 543 MINUS – 5 FAMILY- FOOLS that resides here at INDIA and I’M THE “ GREATEST ” OF THEM .What we possess is a PEANUT and we think that we have GOT everything in our life. That is FOLLOISHNESS to say but that is what we are BORN. We are FOOLS !!.

If we compromise on the QUALITY for the sake of some benefits- THE OLD-GOLD DAYS OG INDIAN HOCKEY WILL NEVER COME BACK AT ALL- NEVER.

These players ought to be selected by the spotters from-:

4). Find out the Schools where the Hockey game is played and the district that conducts INTER-SCHOOL Hockey within the Zone. Visit the places and watch the guys playing Hockey. Bring the outstanding players to the academy and start imparting the training that could make them a good Hockey players.

PRECISE – TARGET

Target a point to achieve that standard. For example say the Ranchi Hockey Zone School. These adivasis’s make a tremendous DEFENDERS, Train them in the manner that you get at least TWO solid defenders to defend at the left , two solid defenders to defend at the right and two solid defenders to convert the penalty corners. This academy to say id a East Zone Hockey School specializing in producing STO:LID – SOLID defenders. Similarly the North Zone Hockey School specializes in producing SOLID-STOLID penalty Corners specialists. Most of the penalty corners specialist of India were AND have been the Sardarji’s.These Sardars are strong, bodily built very strong to play HARD HOCKEY. This ought to be mixed with the PENALTY CORNERS taking and converting these corners into the goal.That is how the Zonal School ought to specialize in ONE particular arean. Now say the Central Zone Hockey School which is located at say Lucknow. This is the Uttar Pradesh which has produced players like Ali Zafar, Zafar, K.D.Singh babu, Major Dhyanchand, Mohammed Shahid to cite as an example. These were the CLASSES and OVER CLASS of forwards. The players of UP, and the players that comes out from the M.P. and Maharashtra belt mostly become WORLD-FAMOUS FORWARDS. 80% of ther famed Indian Forwards have come out from this region that played Hockey. Hence this Hockey School of the I.H.F ought to specialize on producing that kind of forwards.

REQUIREMENT

The concept of the requirement is the must.

Talking to Air Marshal Noor Khan and Ishlauddin this is what I could understand Pakistan was doing to build it’s Hockey players that produced that kind of a result between 1978 to 1984 for a period of six years . Infact Ishlauddin was saying me that India has such a terrific players who do not play for India but are even better than some that platys for Pakistan. He saw some Indian players playing for Indian Airlines against the Pakistan Airlines at Bombay in the Bombay Gold Cup. He was referring to S.A.H. Abdi who he said was the BEST-IN-THE-BUSINESS to stop the penalty corners pust to DEAD. So many, many and Many a GOALS were scored by the combo of Mohinderpal Singh and S.A.H.Abdi for Indian Airlines. Infact in his entire career Mohinder Pal Singh had scored about 500 goals for himself- 90 for india and 410 for Indian Airlines, but never did he get a S.A.H.Abdi to play at all for India. Inspite of possessing such a huge talent and such a huge Hockey in him- after all he was coached by K.D.Singh babu at the Sports Hostel Lucknow, HE DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO PLAY FOR INDIA. Had he got tham Mohinderpal Singh would have finished with 125 plus for India and perhaps India could have added atleast one or two more medals in Hockey between 1883 to 1988 .That was INDIA’S LOSS but AIRLINES GAIN.

YOU CANNOT GET A CAKE IF YOU USE THE SHITS, FOR THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE “ MAIDA ” and not the “ FLOUR ” .

Pakistan had many mnay and many such dribblers in Asad Mallik, Khalid Mehmood, Abdul Rashid Junior, Ishlauddin, Shahnaz Sheikh, Samiullah Khan, Hasan Sardar, Mohammed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Shahbaz Ahmed, however their COACH would see that they DID NOT HANG TOO MUCH WITH THE BALL and if they did that he would immediately replace the player. Hasan Sardar in the Esanda World Cup international during his formative stage in that tourney was replaced as many a five times in that touney while playing. The reason was HE WAS HANGING WITH THE BALL TO MUCH. This habit of individualistic attitude ought to be warded off right from the moment the boys are trained from the stage where they start. Afterwards it becomes a habit and that mars the process and the progress of the team. Ashok and Merwyn were to individualistic at times .That was not good though BOTH OF THEM WERE JEWEL AND A WORLD CLASS ACT WHEN IT CME TO SEE THE CLASS AND MAGIC OF DRIBBLING. Mohammed Shahis was not in that manner but he was ABOVE all in the matter of BALL-CONTROL-DRIBBLING. WHAT A “ MAGIC ” WAS HE !!. … That again was the TRAINING and the COACHING that was imparted to him by K.D.Singh Babu at the Sports Hostel at Lucknow from 1976 to 1978. That is what is coaching.

THESE ARE THE THINGS ON WHICH THE TRAINING AND COACHING OUGHT TO BE MADE AND IMPARTED. Only this would make a TEAM and NEVER the INDIVIDUALS. That is what Air Marshal Noor Khan was telling me on 21-02-1982 at Nagpur, the day I had met him at Nagpur and the day when Pakistan whipped India by 3-1 to square the series after being beaten by 0-1 at Hyderabad. That was in 1981. Again in 1986 at Hyderabad , Pakistan was whipped by 6-3 with Mohammed Shahid scoring TWO-UNBELIEVABLE goals for India in that match .But it was a Test series between these two teams and NOT an International tourney. Afterwards when the match was over the Pakistani Manager of that squad who was a HIGH-FLY Army Officer said- YOUR MOHAMMED SHAHID IS A JEWEL OF HARD WORK OF SO MANY A YEARS BUT THEN IT IS THE TITLES WHICH MATTER FOR PAKISTAN AND NOT A SERIES LOSS. For every series that Pakistan was losing to India it was winning the GOLDS and the MEDALS for them placing them on a HIGHER scale as compared, and THAT IS WHAT THE MINDSET OUGHT TO BE .

What I really want to say is – MOULD THE TEAM AS PER THE REQUIREMENT OF THE TEAM.

Develop all the ingredients of Hockey and inject those into the players but see to it that those individual brilliance is used just for and till the moment that is needs to be used. Even in my playing days for Hislop College at Nagpur from 1976 to 1978 in Hockey, there was a player by the name of Raju Joseph who was a brilliant Hockey player but was very individualistic . I had dropped him for two matches asking our Chief Coach, Mr Rammu Trivedi to drop him as I found him to be engaging too much with the ball hanging and destroying the moves . The result was we DID NOT BEAT our opponent by a margin of 5-0 or 6-0 but we won it by 2-0 and 2-0 .That was enough It served our purpose to amass FOUR valuable points rather than an extra of four or five goals. TEAM GAME WIND A GOLD AND NOT THE INDIVIDUAL BRILLIANCE .

Raju Joseph wuld have won a PLACE in the newspaper of the HITAVADA and NAGPUR TIMES with those EXTRA FOUR OR FIVE GOALS but what was needed was the TROPHY and that we won it.That was MY-THOUGHT-PROCESS. It did not affect my PERSONAL relationship with Raju Joseph at all. Infact even after those moment, Raju was a very DEAR friend to me .

Inter- Zonal – Championship

It is very necessary that these Zone’s School of Hockey excellence, once if the I.H.F formed it ought to play between them the INTER- ZONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP and a team of I.H.F School of training ought to be formed which should be allowed to play in the Junior National as I.H.F Buddies XI and also in the senior. Exposing them to the higher grades and learning from it would be an added lesson and after these comes out from the academy a TAB should be kept on them about their progress. This is what the School of Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Pakistan and Germany do. They watch the performance very carefully and put them on the points and whenever necessary, they fall back to these to bring them back again for the training and use them effectively as an replacement for their Hockey . In India this is NOT done at all. NO BODY CARES FOR ANYBODY and this is the reason our stalwarts in any game go to HELL . This is a BANE .

HUMANISM THAT WOULD ENRICH HOCKEY

It is essential that every body who is in these kind of academy ought to be imparted the necessary education. Every Zone ought to have them clubbed with a GOOD SCHOOL and a GOOD COLLEGE so that after the training session these boy’s are put into the School and the College to atleast study and obtain or get a DEGREE for them. I have been a FRIEND to many many and many a Hockey players and football players. THE MOST DETERRENT FACTOR IS THEY ARE UNEDUCATED AND ARE FOUND IN GUTTERS WHEN THEY FACE IMPEDIMENT AND HORROR HOUNDING THEM IN THEIR LIFE.

It is necessary that these players are given a chance to develop their individual TRAITS that would make them to FIGHT and SURVIVE for themselves and FEND for themselves when the HORROR of LIFE strikes them. We have seen V.P.Sathyan committing suicide. He was a FOOTBALLER. We have seen K.D.Singh Babu doing that – but that was for a different reason . We have seen Mohinder Singh doing it. Education and a knowledge of leading the life after the playing days are over is a MUST in terms of necessity . NO BODY HELPS ANYBODY. ONE OUGHT TO AND ONE HAS TO FIGHT FOR HIS SURVIVAL. ONLY A BASIC EDUCATION WILL NOT HELP. SPECIALISATION IN THIS WORLD HELPS BUT THAT ALSO IS NOT THAT GOOD AS WELL TO SURVIVE. Your EXPERIENCE and the TACT to get away from the things DOES. This is what is needed to be imparted and the one’s who are imbibed and egged on with those quality are the one’s who survives. Many go to the hell if they are not blessed with that a kind of the SEVENTH sense that some LIONS and ELEPHANTS possesses .This is what is to be imparted as a SENSE at these academies for these boy’s that would come from the corners of the villages in terms of a Adivasi or a Punjabi or a Muslim that would play Hockey for India.

AGAIN- IF INDIA HAS TO BE A WORLD CHAMPION IN HOCKEY THE AFTERMATH OF THE PARTITION THAT TOOK AWAY MANY A JEWELS OF HOCKEY TO ALLOW THEM TO GIVE THEIR BEST FOR INDIA AND REPLACING THEM WITH THE BELOW AVERAGE PUNJABIS AND THE SARDARJI’S HAS TO BE PUT IN THE DRAIN OR TO THE PYRE TO LIT IT.

Partition is DEAD now. It is 74 years that it is going to be, that India got separated from Pakistan. Those Pakistani , Samiullah Khan married an Indian Muslim lady who was a brilliant Professor in a Delhi University and Kalimullah Khan married a beautiful looking Pakistani Table Tennis player who was raised at India but then thereafter breeded at Pakistan. If they can CHOOSE these Indian ladies to breed their future generation THESE MUSLIM WHO WERE NOT GIVEN THE CHANCE TO PLAY FOR INDIA LLIKE INAM-UR-REHMAN , SHAHID NOOR AND ATIF IDRIS ALSO SHOULD BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO WED THE INDIAN HOCKEY AND PRODUCE THE GOLDS IN TERMS OF MEDALS FOR INDIA.

In either case, it was the GAIN of Pakistan and it’s Hockey and a COMPLETE disaster for India and it’s hockey. This feeling of USKA TOH BAAP SAMOSA BECHTAA HAI OR USKA TOH BAAP ANDA BECHHTAA HAI has to be done away. The Muslims at india and their Fathers are RICKSHAW DRIVERS, AUTO DRIVERS, BUTCHERS, CYCLE TUBE PUNCTURE REPAIRERS, WATER TANK FILLERS OF THE MASJID, ROAD SIDE TEA SELLERS and what not. If their sons or the daughters are GEMS of hockey they are because they made themselves as such. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO UNDER ESTIMATE THEM AND DOUNT OVER THEIR INTEGRITY FOR INDIA. We had ABDUL HAMID to show, we had Mohammed Nissar to show, we had SalimDurrani to show, we had IQBAL MOINDARGI the Badminton player to show, the FIRST in the annals of Indian Badminton to beat Prakash Padukone in the Finals of the Western India Badminton Championship in 1973, we had Zafar Iqbal and Mohammed Shahid to show. “ BLOODY, DO NOT SHOW US YOUR INDIANISM BY DOUBTING THE OTHERS OF THEIR INTEGRITY FOR INDIA ” .

We know that you are a GREAT-SHOWMAN- “ FUCK ” DO NOT SHOW IT TO US. We have seen many many and many a GREAT and the GREATEST of them, Mr Raj Kapoor as a SHOWMAN and we are NOT interested to see any FURTHER. One was ENOUGH . OH!! The SATYAM, SHIVAM , SUNDARAM of this WORLD- PLEASE EXCUSE ME, I’M SORRY TO USE THAT WORD,........... “ FUCK ” in my write up here, “ PARDON ” me for my ACT, but then FUCKERS ought to be taught by the method of FUCK said one who was a GREAT Warrior, Mr Patton of America in whose name that PATTON TANK exists, when he passed his view to bomb JAPAN in 1945 after Japan had destroyed their PEARL HARBOUR.

What I really want to say is – MOULD THE TEAM AS PER THE REQUIREMENT OF THE TEAM.

Inter- Zonal – Championship

HUMANISM THAT WOULD ENRICH HOCKEY

AGAIN- IF INDIA HAS TO BE A WORLD CHAMPION IN HOCKEY THE AFTERMATH OF THE PATITION THAT TOOK AWAY MANY A JEWELS OF HOCKEY TO ALLOW THEM TO GIVE THEIR BEST FOR INDIA AND REPALCING THEM WITH THE BELOW AVERAGE PUNJABIS AND THE SARDARJI’S HAS TO BE PUT IN THE DRAIN OR TO THE PYRE TO LIT IT.

Partition is DEAD now. It is 74 years that it is going to be, that India got separated from Pakistan. Those Pakistani , Samiullah Khan married an Indian Muslim lady who was a brilliant Professor in a Delhi University and Kalimullah Khan married a beautiful looking Pakistani Table Tennis player who was raised at India but then thereafter breaded at Pakistan. If they can CHOOSE these Indian ladies to breed their future generation THESE MUSLIM WHO WERE NOT GIVEN THE CHANCE TO PLAY FOR INDIA LLIKE INAM-UR-REHMAN , SHAHID NOOR AND ATIF IDRIS ALSO SHOULD BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO WED THE INDIAN HOCKEY AND PRODUCE THE GOLDS IN TERMS OF MEDALS FOR INDIA.

In either case, it was the GAIN of Pakistan and it’s Hockey and a COMPLETE disaster for India and it’s hockey. This feeling of USKA TOH BAAP SAMOSA BECHTAA HAI OR USKA TOH BAAP ANDA BECHHTAA HAI has to be done away. The Muslims at india and their Fathers are RICKSHAW DRIVERS, AUTO DRIVERS, BUTCHERS, CYCLE TUBE PUNCTURE REPAIRERS, WATER TANK FLLERS OF THE MASJID, ROAD SIDE TEA SELLERS and what not. If their sons or the daughters are GEMS of hockey they are because they made themselves as such. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO UNDER ESTIMATE THEM AND DOUNT OVER THEIR INTEGRITY FOR INDIA. We had ABDUL HAMID to show, we had Mohammed Nissar to show, we had SalimDurrani to show, we had IQBAL MOINDARGI the Badminton player to show, the FIRST in the annals of Indian Badminton to beat Prakash Padukone in the Finals of the Western India Badminton Championship in 1973, we had Zafar Iqbal and Mohammed Shahid to show. “ BLOODY, DO NOT SHOW US YOUR INDIANISM BY DOUBTING THE OTHERS OF THEIR INTEGRITY FOR INDIA ” .

We know that you are a GREAT-SHOWMAN- “ FUCK ” DO NOT SHOW IT TO US. We have seen many many and many a GREAT and the GREATEST of them, Mr Raj Kapoor as a SHOWMAN and we are NOT interested to see any FURTHER. One was ENOUGH . OH!! The SATYAM, SHIVAM , SUNDARAM of this WORLD- PLEASE EXCUSE ME, I’M SORRY TOUSE THAT WORD, “ FUCK ” in my write up here, “ PARDON ” me for my ACT, but then FUCKERS ought to be taught by the method of FUCK said one who was a GREAT Warrior, Mr Patton of America in whose name that PATTON TANK exists, when he passed his view to bomb JAPAN in 1945 after Japan had destroyed their PEARL HARBOUR.

The “ ESSENSE ” and the “ ROOT ” of what I ought to say and write - ::

What I wish to actually say and write are the following-:

1). The CHANGES right from the step of choosing a player and selecting him to train him into a Hockey player has to be done from the level of the Mofussil, Villages , and has to end in the towns and cities. THE BEST would come from the WORST where there are TALENTS that is lying dead. That needs to be revived.

2). The training has to be on a specialized lines . Specific players ought to be built for the specific positions. The examples of it are Bob Bouwmann, Paul Litjens, Ties Kruize, all from Holland, Stroeder, Fisher and Blocher, all from Germany , Charlesworth and Terry walsh from Australia and a heap of Pakistani like Shahbaz Ahmed or Hasan sardar. These are the examples of SPECIFIN poition specialist and Hockey India has to do that.

3). Separately , looking into the place that the players have come from, they have to be built as the areas that they come from, they imbibe that kind of a quality, and those quality ought to be ingrained and concretely imparted to make them a SUPER-SPECIALIST in that area of the game BUT, then the other areas of acts in terms of being special that BUILDS and MAKES a team to play a team game ought to be imparted as such and that makes the team.

4). It is the TEAM GAME that has to be focused upon and that ought to be built. Individual brilliance is an EXAMPLE of HOW SHAHBAZ AHNED PLAYED THAT LAST FIVE MINUTES AT NEW DELHI WHEN PAKISTAN DEFEATED SOUTH KOREA BY 5-2 TO WIN THAT TITLE IN THE JUNIOR ASIA CUP HOCKEY. Individual brilliance is NOT INDIVIDUAL GAME BUT A GAME THAT HELPS THE TEAM TO WIN AT ANY COST AND THAT IS SHARED BY THE TEAM MEMBERS.

5). The notion of playing the below average or the just an average ought to be given up fast and very soon . The belief that the ONE’S WHO ARE CONNECTED TO THE PARTITION WOULD NOT GIVE HIS BEST AGAINST PAKISTAN OUGHT TO BE WARDED OFF. There are human being, in India coming from a COMMUNITY which believes in reading the HOLY-QUARAN for FIVE times a day which DOES NOT BELIEVES IN PAKISTAN OR IT’S EXISTENCE AT ALL . By doubting their INTEGRITY for India we ONLY are saying it to the world- SEE, THERE CANNOT BE A “ BLOODY- FOOLS ” better than us. They may HATE the R.S.S or the B.J.P or me as I come from that School, but they DO NOT HATE INDIA , I can safely say and vouch for them.

6). Conducting the games of Hockey and the matches in the School and the University or the College level is a MUST now. That is to be done as quickly as possible. Without it HOCKEY-INDIA will NOT grow at all.

7). Imparting education side by side to these buddies when they get an admission to these Zonal Hockey School of the I.H.F also ought to go sde by side.

Not all the players emerging out will go to play for India. Some might be GOOD not enough to represent India. A proper education along with the certificates of playing at the nationals and at the University Games will help them to get a job for themselves and that is a MUST that ought to be borne in the mind.

Some of the OLD TOURNEY, like the BEIGHTON CUP, the All India Gold Cup Bombay, the Jawaharlal Nehru Cup, the Murugappa Gold Cup, Chennai, has to be revived at any cost. Atleast there should be FOUR tournament played at the FOUR Zonal centres every year, and a WILLS TROPHY for the FIVE ZONES of Indian Hockey, EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH, AND CENTRAL that ought to play the game for WILLS TROPHY. The WILLS were the sponsor of this TROPHY for HOCKEY INDIA and the I.H.F has to approach the I.T.C , ie the Indian Tobacco Company to once again come forward to revieve the CUP and the tournament. THAT WILL BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE FOR INDIAN HOCKEY.

9). The Rangaswamy Cup, the symbol of SUPREMACY for Indian Hockey has to start as well. That ought to include the STATES either as a WHOLE and also as a CITY to participate, for example Maharashtra and Bombay use to participate separately and that trend should continue. Same as Chandigarh, Haryana and Punjab use to participate separately and that TREND should continue. with the All India Railways, The SERVICES, kind of a team to play in it. The Indian Airlines DOES NOT EXISTS at all. THAT IS WHY INDIAN HOCKEY HAS GONE TO

8). Some of the OLD TOURNEY, like the BEIGHTON CUP, the All India Gold Cup Bombay, the Jawaharlal Nehru Cup, the Murugappa Gold Cup, Chennai, has to be revived at any cost. At least there should be FOUR tournament played at the FOUR Zonal centres every year, and a WILLS TROPHY for the FIVE ZONES of Indian Hockey, EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH, AND CENTRAL that ought to play the game for WILLS TROPHY. The WILLS were the sponsor of this TROPHY for HOCKEY INDIA and the I.H.F has to approach the I.T.C , ie the Indian Tobacco Company to once again come forward to revieve the CUP and the tournament. THAT WILL BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE FOR INDIAN HOCKEY.

9). The Rangaswamy Cup, the symbol of SUPREMACY for Indian Hockey has to start as well. That ought to include the STATES either as a WHOLE and also as a CITY to participate with the All India Railways, The SERVICES, kind of a team to play in it. The Indian Airlines DOES NOT EXISTS at all. THAT IS WHY INDIAN HOCKEY HAS GONE TO THE DOGS. Still if an AIRLINES team can be accommodated DIVINE IT WOULD BE FOR INDIAN HOCKEY.

What Needs To Be Done By India To Upscale ASIAN HOCKEY so that It Updates It’s Own Hockey

Pic :: Mrs Indira Gandhi completely "IMMERSED ",glued to the " BEAUTY " of World Cup

We need to learn and we need to accept. Pakistan and Germany did that as did Australia and we have to do. Pakistan in this case was an example and an example for emulation and evaluation.

A good or the BEST of all the BEST thing as an example ought to be always appreciated and it is the DUTY of a WISE HUMAN BEING to pick up the BEST of the POINTS even if the ENEMY is the WORST that one could have and I thereby pick the example of Pakistan to BUILD and revive Indian Hockey.Pakistan did it in style and with a CLASS of an EXAMPLE and I do it now. I lay down that as ean example with a BELIEF that Hockey india would pik up that point. If they DO NOT they are an ASS ie the DONKEYS.

Pic:: Madam Indira Gandhi listening to all the EXPLANATIONS and taking it from the members of the Victorious World Cup Hockey Winning team, March 18th 1975 at her residence

Pakistan I order to build itself a very STRONG Hockey playing nation GIFTED the WORLD CUP HOCKEY TO F.I.H TO HOLD THAT , THEN IT GIFTED THE CHAMPIONS TROPHY TO HOLD THAT TO THE F.I.H, THEN IT GOT HOCKEY ADMITTED TO THE ASIAN GAMES TO DO IT, AND THEN IT GAVE THE ASIA CUP TO A.H.F TO HOLD THAT.

The WORLD of HOCKEY completely got transformed and Pakistan won all the major International Hockey titles from 1978 to 1984 except the Esanda International in 1983.

Pic :: Mrs Indira Gandhi absolutely in the "GRINS" to meet the victorious GOLD MEDAL winners of the Moscow Olympics. Mohammed Shahid and Vasudevan Bhaskaran are the first two from left , at the 1st row.

In Asia the Asian Games would be held in 2022, the Asia Champions Cup in 2023 . Here in between the ASIAN CHAMPIONS TROPHY a NEW TROPHY should steep and come in. THAT INDIA SHOULD GIVE IT TO A.H.F and that should be India’s GIFT to the Asian Hockey. It should be held in between the two Asian titles as mentioned and it should be held for the Asian Men’s Asian Women’s, Asian Juniors- both Men and Women.

The Asia CHAMPIONS CUP should be played between SIX-TOP-TEAMS of Asia. The SIX teams FIRST should be chosen to play in this tournament on the basis of the TOP-SIX-TEAMS that occupies that place after the commencement of Asian Games and then it again should be the top six teams after the Asia Cup as THIS SHOUL;D BE HELD ONCE IN EVERY TWO YEARS IN ASIA,

Thereagain, after every ASIA tourney for titles in Hockey, there should be a ALL-ASIA-STAR Team chosen and it should be pitted against the REST OF ASIA to play the SUPER ASIA CUP and this game should be played on the basis of the BEST-OF-FIVE-GAMES and one who wins three games should be awarded that Trophy.

Thereafter the ASIA –BEST- ELEVEN team should tour these SIX countries to play a series of three Test each against their national side.

After the 1974 Asian games at Tehran, the Pakistan Hockey Federation chose a ALL-TIME-BEST-ASIAN-XI team after that Asian games Hockey based on their performance of the players in that tourney. That team was named as ASIA XI TEAM. That team had three Indians, One Malaysian, Poon Foke Looke, One Japani and one Sri-Lankan three Indians Ashok Kumar, Ajitpal Singh and Surjit Singh and the rest 12 were the Pakistani’s .Tat team played FIVE matches against the Pakistani side and Five matches against the Indian side. The Pakistani’s team beat this side by 3-2 in the series played at Pakistan and it won 2-1 against India .But the exposure and the match practice that the Indians got playing against this team in 1974 helped them in a GREAT manner and in a GREAT way to WIN THE THIRD WORLD CUP HOCKEY AT MALAYSIA BY OUTWITTING PAKISTAN BY 2-1 IN THE FINALS.

It is so conjecture to feel and say that INDIAN HOCKEY AFTER THIS COMPLETELY WENT TO THE DRAINS FOR THE REASON THAT IS PUT HERE.

The proceeds can be shared in the proportion o f 3:2:2:1:1:1 with the three going to Sri-Lanka to raise their Hockey, two each going to Pakistan and Bangladesh to raise their hockey and keep them afloat ;Pakistan has to be made to SURVIVE if HOCKEY at all needs to survive .Without Pakistan in Hockey, it would be like a MAN or a HUMAN BEING withoiut it’s HEART to survive and whatever our international relation be with Pakistan- WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW THE PAKISTANI HOCKEY TO DIE AT ALL……. NEVER…… for IF PAKISTAN HOCKEY IS “ DEAD ” THE INDIAN HOCKEY WILL DIE IT’S NATURAL DEATH AND THE WORLD HOCKEY WILL BE “ GONE ” FOR EVER.

Pic :: Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh and Air Chief Marshal Noor Singh discussing Hockey, March 2nd 1968...

It is TIME for us to repay our DEBTS that we HOLD for Pakistan. It was Pakistan courtest Air Marshal Noor Khan and Brigadier Atif which made India to survive and get a place to play in the Mexico Olympics. Without that India and it’s HOCKEY would have gone out to the BURIALS for ever. It is now time we PAY-BACK the PAKISTAN HOCKEY FEDRATION with all our HUMBLENESS and all our GRATIUDE so that it comes out of the WOOD. That is a DUTY for us to do it for them .

Out of the remains two ought to be given to Bangladesh to raise it's Hockey . vERY FEW NOW WILL REMEMBER HOW BANGLADESH MADE THE PAKISTANI TO DIE BEFORE THAT GOAL FROM HASAN SARDAR KILLED THEM IN THE ASIA CUP WHEN BANGLADESH LOST TO THEM BY 0-1 IN THE 1985 ASIA CUP HOCKEY AT DHAKA in 1985. . .. One would also not believe when I say that in the Junior Asia Cup Hockey in 1988 at New Delhi, the Bangladesh Junior team led Pakistan the ultimate winner till the 56th minutes of the game before bowing to them by 2-1 and it bagged the FOURTH PLACE when it lost to India for that BRONZE. That was the BEST that Bangladesh achieved in Hockey before their HOCKEY lost all it's sense and it was dead.

HOCKEY IN ASIA HAS TO SURVIVE AND BECOME ALIVE IF WORLD HOCKEY IS TO BE MAKE ALIVE AND MADE IT TO SURVIVE .

As we are far better than Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, and as the countries like Japan, South Korea and India are far , far, far and far better than these countries WE SHOULD TAKE THE BIG BROTHER ROLE ALONG WITH SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN TO SHARE THE REMAIN OF THE BOOTY IN THE SAME RATIO OF ONE IS TO ONE IS TO ONE.

Thus in the four years of time - we here at Asia would be playing each other for all the FOUR YEARS.That will keep the HOCKEY CALENDER INDIA busy all throughoiut, and that would be the BEST for Hockey Asia. The tournaments could be scheduled in between the World Cup, the Olympics and the Champion YTrophy without these tpourney's interrupting the MAJOR ONES that is played on the F.I.H scales and the International Olympics scales.

In the interest of the Asian Hockey a new TROPHY- ASIAN SUB JUNIOR HOCKEY tournament for the boy’s under 15 IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR and India should immediately propose that idea and should donate a TROPHY at once to start this.That will REALLY bring many a sub junior to the fore and from there many a Juniors as well as Seniors would come to the fore.

My main essence and the points that I would like to emphasise is-:

1). It is high time that India takes the lead role in reorganizing and revamping the Asian Hockey. As compared to Pakistan India had never awarded any trophies at all for the world to play for .It is now high time that India comes up with two trophies.

2). Like the Champion Cup in the World level, India should award one Trophy to the A.H.F and that should be the CHAMPIONS SUPER ASIA CUP in which SIX best teams of Asia should compete. This should be played every two years.

3). The Super Asia Cup should be played immediately after the commencement of the Asian Games and then in the next year after the Asia Cup is played. Thus it will help to roll on the Asian Hockey in terms of the entire four years humped with Hockey and there will be no gap in between in Asia for any country to miss out playing Hockey.

4). The Women competition in Asia also ought to be played on the same lines. This will help the countries playing Hockey in Asia to keep on playing for every year amongst themselves. This competitive Hockey will help the standard to grow.

5). There should be Sub-Junior Asian Hockey won the same lines and that should be started or rolled to commence immediately.

6). India should take the lead for all these Hockey activities and the money that is collected should be shared in an manner so that the poor countries with no money at all should get a chance to get some money from these proceeds such that their Hockey comes up and develops like the countries say Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka , and India now should come up to help Pakistan by paying back it’s debt to India which India got it from them in 1968. Pakistan ought to be helped for Hockey to survive in Asia.

7). After every tournaments are conducted , there should be a All-Asian –Best XI picked and this team should play a series of two matches each in Pakistan, India, and the other four teams that qualifies for the Super Best Six teams at their respective country. This will help each of the Asian countries and their players to play against the BEST of the Asia and develop their standard and raise their game. These kind of matches helps a lot for the smaller and weak nation to develop their Hockey. Hockey in Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka and some other Asian Countries needs to develop fast and soon.

What Is The A.H.F supposed to do in the F.I.H

There are a lot and maybe not a lot that the Asian Hockey Federation is supposed to do in the Federation Of International Hockey. Here the main points are illustrated as under-:

DRAG-FLICK

1). It needs to scrap the DRAG-FLICK by every account. Drag flick is an pen invitation for the Goalkeeper or any body guarding the goal to invite the DEATH. The ball which travels at that speed if it hits any player on the face or mouth or any part of the head, THE RECEIVER WILL BE DONE AWAY WITH DEATH. The old system of hitting the penalty corners has to be brought back into the game

OFF- SIDE

2). The old system of offside has to be brought back into the system and back into the game. A football or a Hockey game or a game which is a ball game with eleven players playing, cannot be played without the off-side being taken away.The off-side helps in involving new tricks and new strategies to be brought into the place to break the deadlock and to score goals. These kind of games that I have mentioned cannot be played without the off-side and it’s rules or applicability just like the life cannot go without the hands being put into places. The A.H.F should fight to bring the off-side rules back into the game

FULL SEVENTY MINUTES OF THE PLAY

Hockey with a two and a half minutes of intermittent break in between has been reduced to seventy minutes of the play that is being played now. Every quarter now ought to be played for seventeen and a half minutes so that in four different quarter , this game is played for seventy minutes. This the A.H.F should get the F.I.H to do it.

HOCKEY TO BE PLAYED ON GRASS AND TURF SIMALTANEOUSLY

Hockey unlike the other game , like FOOTBALL, is a very natural game. Natural games are played on the grass. The game played on the grass makes one to come up with new inventions in terms of game play, techniques, strategy, method and it helps in bringing about many improvisation in the game to make the game keener, attractive , and it also helps in making the game look graceful.

The game that is played on the turf has snatched away everything that related to aristocracy, grace and beauty of this game. New rules which are totally unwanted which has made the game look very mechanical, BRUTE and ungraceful, has to be done away with.

Now a change in the THOUGHT PROCESS ought to be adopted. The Tennis like thought has to come.

Tennis is played in four different surface at Australia for the Australian Open, at France for the French open at London for the Wimbledon and at U S A for the U.S Open. The so called professional players adopt themselves so very quickly everytime to change their game on these surfaces and adopt themselves to play and win on these surfaces. There are many players who have won the four different titles playing on these four surfaces .THIS THOUGHT PROCESS ALSO IS TO BE BROUGHT IN HOCKEY

ALTERNATIVE SURFACE TO BE USED FOR EVER ALTERNATIVE TOURNEYS BY THE F.I.H

It is for the A.H.F to move forward for these changes.Say if the AT PRESENT WORLD CUP is being held on the Astro Turf for this World Cup, the next one would be played on the earth/grass surface.

Similairly if the Champion Trophy isi played on the turf the next edition ought to be played on the grass/earth surface. This will give an equal chance to the other countries to come up and play Hockey. Not many countries can afford to have the Astro Turf which keeps on changing fast with the time and this is a costly method.

HOCKEY IS A POOR MAN’S GAME AND NOT THE AFFORDABILTY OF THE SUPER RICH

This has to be borne and kept in mind. Because of the ILL-WICKED thought process of the Europeans and the manner in which they have ruled the F.I.H and have kept on bringing the changes after chages in the rules and the surface to play Hockey at Kenya, Ghana and other country is DEAD.

Ghana sprang a surprise in 1975 when it against the expectations of everybody qualified to play in the World Cup Hockey in 1975 at Kuala Lumpur. Where is Ghana and it’s Hockey now. Similarly in Kenya Hockey is dead. NOW WE FIND THAT PAKISTAN IS SLOWLY DYING IN HOCKEY.

These are because of the fact that the Europeans and their CONQUEST of everything and everypost at the F.I.H and it’s voting policy which is fully wrong and unaccepted, have made Hockey a MOLL to dance to their tune and to be used by them in an manner to do anything with it. The result is the WORLD AND IT’S HOCKEY IS DEAD.

It cannot be that a GAME or a SPORT is played in a few limited country like cricket is played. Cricket is a DACOIT GAME now. Hockey was the game for one and sundry like football. It has to made alive to survive and not like cricket where the muscle flexing of India and the IDIOCRACY of the I.C.C has to fight amongst themselves and kill the entire game.

Cricket as it was , was a game that is played by 22 FOOLS and was watched by 22 crores of FOOLS. Hockey and Football were and always have been PLAYED by the GODS and HANDS-OF-GOD and it always has been watched by the ONE’S who were the WORSHIPPERS of the GOD.

Strange Hockey is brought to the start of it’s death.

It now has to be MEDICATED and nourished properly so that a NEW FACE comes out of it full of VITALITY, VIGOUR and LIFE so that Hockey takes it’s new life and infuses LIFE to many, many and many for the game to move on and survive

INDIA and the Asian Hockey Federation now has to SPRING to WONDERS and LIFE

Well , that is it and That sums it all.

Regards and Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .

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