Australian coach like Nobbs, Walsh had different style for Indian hockey. Long passes, trying to build attack from the back, quick substitution was their style and players of weak body structure like Lalit, Walmiki brothers were not in their teams. This Dutch Coach Ass and earlier Mr Brasa are adapting to more European style with compact defense, ability of players to hold ball for longer duration and they are not substituted that frequently. One thing which baffles me is the absence of Penalty corner specialist. It is retarded to take only one Rupinder Pal Singh and as he is injured, nobody else is there. you cannot win in todays hockey without PC specialist. Why not select Gurjinder Singh who is young and proved himself many times? Mandeep singh, S K Uthappa, Kothajit singh are other notable absentees. We somehow survived against France, Pakistan.Without PC specialist, can we win against Malaysia in QF?
National Record of 800 meters is 1:45:77 by Sriram Singh way back in 1976. So far best effort by Beant Singh has been 1:51.08. He is still 6 seeconds short of National Record. We should be careful in creating hype on social media. He has not reached National record yet. He should start competing at Senior level athletes-then only he can improve. School or junior level records are not called records. One needs close to 1:40 to hope for medal in Olympics and close to 1:42 to 1:45 to get medal at Asian level.
I meant by in youth category @munna , which is u19 , so he is still very young for that and also now sportskeeda is collecting funds for him as we all know what our fed give to athletes . sportskeeda had target of 50k in 2 months but they reached this target in just 2 days =D>
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One thing which baffles me is the absence of Penalty corner specialist. It is retarded to take only one Rupinder Pal Singh and as he is injured, nobody else is there. you cannot win in todays hockey without PC specialist. Why not select Gurjinder Singh who is young and proved himself many times? Mandeep singh, S K Uthappa, Kothajit singh are other notable absentees.
We somehow survived against France, Pakistan.Without PC specialist, can we win against Malaysia in QF?
http://m.sportskeeda.com/athletics/beant-singh-wins-gold-medal-world-school-championships
He should start competing at Senior level athletes-then only he can improve. School or junior level records are not called records. One needs close to 1:40 to hope for medal in Olympics and close to 1:42 to 1:45 to get medal at Asian level.