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Lausanne all set for Hockey5s showcase
Sports Bulletin Report
Lausanne (Switzerland):-The Hero FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022 event is the first official senior World Hockey5s competition to be organised by FIH and it builds on the success of Hockey5s events that have been taking place across the world, including the Youth Olympic Games events in Nanjing 2014 and Buenos Aires 2018.
Taking place in the centre of the Olympic Capital Lausanne on June 4-5, Hockey5s Lausanne 2022 will be two days of hockey action, fun and entertainment. The hockey action will see the men’s teams of India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland and Switzerland compete in a round robin style tournament, with a final between the two top teams.
South African coach Tsoanelo Pholo said:
‘Hockey5s is an initiator into hockey, a developer into the full-field version. If you have a Hockey5s court in three or four places in the country, I am telling you now, we are going to have way more hockey players in developing countries.’
Swiss athlete Sae Fontana said:
‘As early adopters of Hockey5s, we want to gain a competitive advantage, to get better rapidly, as a small country. Hockey5s is a fast game which makes it intense for the players.’
There will be some superstars, both established and up and coming, showing their skills at the Place de la Navigation, near Lake Geneva.
Pakistan men led the way in the sport throughout the 20th century and it is exciting to see what this young team can do in a new format of the game. The speed and intensity will suit the super close skills of the Pakistan team.
Both Poland and Switzerland men’s teams will be looking to transfer some of the skills and tactics of the indoor game onto the court in Lausanne. Poland is a specialist when it comes to the short form of the game and Switzerland, led by Sebastian Schneider, will have the advantage of a home crowd.
Pakistan out of World Cup race after 2-3 defeat against Japan
Raja Shafik
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan’s hopes to enter the super four stage of Asia Hockey Cup 2022 and qualify for the 2023 Hockey World Cup suffered a big blow as they conceded a 2-3 defeat at the hands of Japan in a closely-fought Pool A match at the GBK Sports Complex Hockey Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday.
According to information made available here by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), Japan, who earlier on Tuesday stunned defending champions India 5-2, scored two goals in the first quarter to put Pakistan under pressure.
Pakistan made a strong comeback in the second quarter when in the 23rd minute Ijaz Ahmed scored a scintillating field goal. But four minutes later Japan scored the third goal. Pakistan found another breakthrough in the 30th minute, thanks to a well-converted penalty corner by Mubashir Ali. By the end of the match, both teams failed to score any more goals.
Pakistan, who scored a last-minute goal to draw 1-1 against India in their tournament opener, registered a thumping 13-0 win against hosts Indonesia on Tuesday. But despite that, they finished at number three as India claimed second spot on the points table after thrashing Indonesia 16-0 in their last pool game.
That means Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia have sealed the FIH World Cup 2023 berths. India has qualified as hosts and Pakistan are out of the race. The Asia Cup served as a World Cup qualifier. (Thanks to APP)
FIH confirms 16 Participating Teams for Hockey World Cup 2023
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Lausanne, Switzerland: All 16 qualified teams line-up has been completed for the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, India.
At the Hero Asia Cup, which is currently taking place in Jakarta, a thrilling match between Japan and Pakistan, which ended 3-2 in Japan’s favour, meant Japan joined Malaysia and Korea as the three teams to qualify for the World Cup. As the host nation, India had already qualified.
At the continental showpiece event, India, Japan, Malaysia and Korea have all won through to the top four of the competition, with the Super4s finals taking place over the weekend to decide the overall winner of the event.
The other two teams making up the participating nations are the top ranked teams in Oceania, New Zealand and Australia.
Full list of participating nations:
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, England, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and Wales.
Asia Hockey Cup 2022: Pakistan outclass hosts Indonesia 13-0
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Jakarta (Indonesia):-Pakistan outclassed hosts Indonesia 13-0 in their second match of the ongoing Asia Hockey Cup here in the capital city of Indonesia on Tuesday. Pakistan and India had locked the horns 1-1 in the opening match on Monday at the same pitch.
Pakistan showed excellent play in the second match of the schedule and easily defeated Indonesia by 13-0. Ijaz Ahmed scored the first goal in the second minute while the second field goal was scored by Rana Waheed in the fourth minute.
Abdul Manan netted the ball in the sixth minute while the fifth goal was scored by Mubashir Ali with the help of short corner. Rana Abdul Waheed scored the 7th field goal in the 19th minute. Also, Abdul Manan pushed the ball in the goal-post in the 19th minute.
Rizwan Ali scored the 9th goal in the 25th minute with the help of short corner, Ghazanfar Ali scored the 10th field goal in the 35th minute. The 11th goal was scored by Rizwan Ali in the 43rd minute with the help of a short corner, the 12th field goal was scored by Moin Shakeel in the 45th minute and the 13th field goal was scored by Ijaz Ahmed in the 49th minute. Rana Waheed was declared the best player of the match.
According to the Asia Hockey Cup schedule, the event teams were divided into two pools. Pool A includes India, Japan, Pakistan and Indonesia while Pool B includes Malaysia, Korea, Oman and Bangladesh. Pakistan will play its third match against Japan on May 26.
Hero FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022: a hockey festival in the Olympic Capital
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Lausanne, Switzerland:- ‘Hero FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022’, the first-ever senior World Hockey5s event organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), will take place in less than one month, on 4 and 5 June 2022, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In addition to a thrilling competition on the field of play with some of the powerhouses of international hockey (Women: Switzerland, India, Poland, South Africa and Uruguay; Men: Switzerland, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Poland), the event also aims at enabling everyone to discover and practice the sport, with an initiation offered to the public throughout both days! Furthermore, a DJ music programme will entertain fans during the whole event.
And since hockey is a big family, even the players of the flagship ice hockey club of the Vaud city - the Lausanne Hockey Club (LHC) - will be there and will come to compete for an exhibition match at a local and international selection of (field) hockey players!
Hockey5s is played with 5 athletes per team. It is particularly known for its non-stop action, since the ball is in play for about 90% of a match, thanks to perimeter boards placed against the outside of the side-lines and back-lines. There are usually more goals with Hockey5s than with the more traditional 11-a-side format of hockey, since players can score from anywhere in the attacking half. The match duration is shorter, with 2 halves of 10 minutes each.
Hockey5s is played on a smaller pitch, which enables to bring hockey to people in new and unexpected venues, sometimes even in the heart of cities. Precisely, ‘Hero FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022’ will be staged on the Place de la Navigation, an iconic location near the Lac Léman bordering the Olympic Capital, where a 500-seat stadium will be built specifically for the occasion. FIH Global Supplier Polytan will deliver the first prototype non-watered turf for elite hockey.
FIH CEO Thierry Weil stated:
“We’re very much looking forward to this really exciting event in the Olympic capital! Beyond the competitive aspect, one major objective of this event is to promote - or even introduce - the intensity, speed, skills and fun of hockey to everyone, not only in the city but also worldwide thanks to Watch.Hockey and our broadcast partners. On behalf of FIH, I’d like to extend our sincerest thanks to all our partners, in particular our title sponsor Hero, as well as the City of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud, for their great support. And I invite everyone to come and enjoy our sport!”
Played in more than 70 countries around the world, Hockey5s was the most attended sport at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with no less than 200’000 spectators!
In 2019, in order to further boost the development of hockey globally through Hockey5s, the FIH Executive Board decided to create an FIH Hockey5s World Cup - with the inaugural edition planned in 2024 in Oman - and, in the near future, a Hockey5s World Tour, which will consist of events similar to Lausanne’s.
Hockey Federation names 24 players for Training camp for Asia Cup
Sports Reporter
LAHORE:-The Pakistan Hockey Federation has named the 40 players set-up national hockey training camp to prepare the squad for upcoming Asia Hockey Cup 2022. The camp will start from May 9 at the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore.
Federation has instructed the players to report to camp manager Olympian Khawaja Junaid on May 9. It is to be noted that the said National Training Camp is being held in connection with the preparations for Asia Cup Jakarta, Commonwealth Birmingham and Asian Games China.
Names of players:
Abdullah Ishtiaq, Goalkeeper (Mari Petroleum), Akmal Hussain, Goalkeeper (WAPDA), Mubashir Ali (WAPDA), Emad Shakeel Butt (National Bank), Abu Bakar Mahmood. (National Bank), Mohammad Abdullah (Mari Petroleum), Mohammad Hammad Anjum (WAPDA), Arbaaz Ahmed (Mari Petroleum), Rizwan Ali (Pakistan Air Force), Abdul Manan (Sui Southern), Umar Bhatta (WAPDA), Rana Abdul Waheed (WAPDA) , Ghazanfar Ali (Mari Hetrolium), Mohammad Salman (WAPDA), Roman Khan (WAPDA), Moin Shakeel (WAPDA), Ali Shan (Sui Southern), Junaid Manzoor (National Bank), Ejaz Ahmed (WAPDA) Abdul Hanan Shahid (WAPDA) , Ahmed Nadeem (Mari Petroleum), Noheez Zahid (National Bank), Rana Sohail Riaz (Sui Southern) and Muneeb-ur-Rehman, Goalkeeper (Sui Southern)
Names of officials:
Olympian Khawaja Junaid (Camp Manager), Sigfried Ekman (Head Coach), Ajmal Khan Lodhi, Olympian Wasim Ahmed and Olympian Sameer Hussain( Assistant Coaches), Imran Shah and Imran Butt (Goal Keeping Coach), Nadeem Lodhi (Video Analyst), Adeel Akhtar and Mohammad Aslam (Physiotherapist)
Pakistan Hockey Federation invites 15-player for training camp
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LAHORE:-Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has called 15-player to join the training camp aiming to prepare the national squad for forthcoming five-a-side hockey tournament that will be taken place in Switzerland. Tournament will start on June 4, 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
According to an official of PHF, all 15 selected players for the training camp have been instructed to report to head coach Olympian Rehan Butt at National Hockey Stadium Lahore by the afternoon of May 8. Olympian Waqas Sharif will be assistant coach. Pakistan team will leave on June 2 for Switzerland.
Names of players:
Mohammad Waqar (goalkeeper), Haider Manzoor (goalkeeper), Mohibullah Khan, Omar Mustafa, Mohammad Ehtesham, Hassan Amin, Aqeel Ahmed, Tazeem Al Hassan, Abdul Rehman, Murtaza Yaqoob, Mohammad Afraz, Arshad Liaqat, Abuzar, Shahzeb Khan, Mohsin Hassan
Hosts Spain beat Pakistan 5-3 in field hockey
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BARCELONA (Spain):-Spain defeated Pakistan 5-3 in the last fixture of the Europe tour of the Green Shirts and leveled the two-match series 1-1, as Pakistan had won the first match 4-1 that played at Barcelona, Spain.
In the first half, Spain were leading 1-0. Later in the second half of the game, Mubashir Ali and Mohammad Rizwan scored one goal each with the help of a short corner for Pakistan while Rana Waheed scored a field goal. The Spanish team scored two more goals and defeated Pakistan by five goals to three.
Pakistan outclass Spain 4-1 in hockey contest
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BARCELONA (Spain):-Pakistan national hockey team outclassed hosts Spain 4-1 in the first fixture of the 2 Test-Match Tie in Barcelona on Tuesday.
It was the 5th match of Europe tour, as earlier Green Shirts encountered Netherlands and Belgium, the Pakistan hockey team played an excellent game with the Spanish hockey team and defeated them by four goals to one.
Rizwan scored the first goal for Pakistan in the first quarter of the game through a short corner. Ijaz Ali scored the third field goal for Pakistan. At the end of the first half, Pakistan took a three-goal lead over Spain. In the fourth quarter of the second half, Pakistan's Roman scored the fourth goal.
The Pakistan team is accompanied by Manager Olympian Khawaja Junaid, Head Coach Siegfried Ekman, Assistant Coach Olympian Wasim Ahmed, Drake Flicker Coach Richard Snatcher, Goalkeeper Coach Bob John Weldeff, Video Analyst Nadeem Lodhi. Pakistan will play the second match of the two-match series against Spain on May 4 in Barcelona.
Hero named title sponsor of FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022
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Lausanne, Switzerland:-Hero (Hero MotoCorp), the world's largest manufacturer of two wheelers and a long-time partner of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and hockey in general, has been named title sponsor of the first-ever senior World Hockey5s event organised by FIH, which will take place on 4 and 5 June 2022, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
‘Hero FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022’ will combine a thrilling competition involving some of the powerhouses of international hockey (Women: Switzerland, India, Poland, South Africa and Uruguay; Men: Switzerland, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Poland) with an initiation to hockey offered to the public and a musical entertainment throughout both days.
Bharatendu Kabi, Hero MotoCorp, said:
“Hero MotoCorp has been one of the largest corporate promoters of sports across the world. In keeping with this commitment, we are glad to support Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) in staging the inaugural Hockey 5s, a brand-new format added to the sport of Hockey. As the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, Hero has always been at the forefront of sustainable technology and innovation. We congratulate FIH for introducing a new format with a fast-paced game that involves high levels of skill and aimed at further increasing the reach and popularity of the sport. With 5s, fans around the world will get to watch a great exhibition of hockey in action over the course of two days in Lausanne in the summer.”
FIH CEO Thierry Weil said:
“We’re delighted to have Hero as title sponsor of our inaugural Hockey5s international tournament in Lausanne. This demonstrates once more the deep commitment of Hero to be a leader in the development of hockey worldwide. FIH is determined to grow hockey globally and we’re convinced that Hockey5s has a great potential to contribute significantly to the fulfillment of this objective. It is therefore particularly encouraging to be supported in our vision by such a strong and faithful hockey partner. On behalf of FIH, I would like to extend our sincerest thanks and appreciation to Hero.”
In 2019, in order to further boost the development of hockey globally through Hockey5s, the FIH Executive Board decided to create an FIH Hockey5s World Cup - with the inaugural edition planned in 2024 in Oman - and, in the near future, a Hockey5s World Tour, which will consist of events similar to Lausanne’s.
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