Indian hockey players biography sample

Millennials in India grew up to the ‘folklores’ of their country’s exploits in field hockey under the legends such as Major Dhyan Chand and Balbir Singh, which for the Gen Z was an implausible thought, a ‘fairy tale’.

And rightly so!

For the last four decades, eight-time hockey champions—India—showed very little mettle at the pinnacle of sports—the Olympics.

As the sport continued to slip into the abyss, the young journalist in me, sitting in the press box at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex, at the 2004 Athens Olympics, wondered if he would ever witness a resurrection of the sport in India.

India, then, was routed by their arch-rivals Pakistan 3-0, and the Dilip Tirkey-led side with mercurial striker Dhanraj Pillay in the ranks were made to look like lambs.

Pillay, who had managed to breathe some life into Indian hockey with this agile stickwork and had taken India to the Asian Games title in 1998, was the lone wol