List of Foreigners is not impressive. No Asian, African or hardly one Argentina players. How come they select Austria or Sweden players while nobody from Malaysia or Korea? some teams even selected two Foreign Goalkeepers!!!!
This league either expands to become a truly Pan Indian league or will die out in the next 2-3 years. No club can build fan connect and a brand playing 20 days a year.
Those Businessman running HIL are just concerned with invoices of expenses so that they can claim tall tax exemptions. If it is in their hands, they can finish the league in 1 day. They do not care about Hockey. This league is not covering Hockey cities like Bhopal, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Calcutta or North East. Just 5-6 cities is nothing. Out of that, Delhi and Lucknow are not serious venues either by crowd or local players.
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List of Foreigners is not impressive. No Asian, African or hardly one Argentina players. How come they select Austria or Sweden players while nobody from Malaysia or Korea? some teams even selected two Foreign Goalkeepers!!!!
They do not care about Hockey.
This league is not covering Hockey cities like Bhopal, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Calcutta or North East. Just 5-6 cities is nothing. Out of that, Delhi and Lucknow are not serious venues either by crowd or local players.
IRAN INDIA 27-11 12-19 24-18 25-18 full time 88-66
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