‘local players to get better exposer in HIl’
Bhubaneswar: India’s highest level of domestic tournament is Hockey India league (HIl). This is format in which the young as well as experience players will have a chance to play with top rated overseas players in home condition, said Hockey India coach Tarry Walsh in his visit to Odisha. In my opinion the standard is not put to the international league standards. But I am hopeful in future the HIl will grow further. We should not expect that in the beginning of the league the standard of match to be international standard. Odisha’s young generation hockey player would get a better exposer as there would be five local boys to be in the Kalinga lancer team. Many local players are in the Hockey league. The HIl is a tournament of four weeks, it should be expanded so that many will get a chance to play with each other. The newly constructed hockey stadium here is an international standard. The bounce of the pitch is excellent, the ball is rolling perfectly. The other facilities are to be checked to hold international matches here, he added. Regarding the national team it is too early in my part to comment also unjustified. I need some more quality time with the national team to give my opinion. But one thing I have marked the players are lagging international exposer and they should change their thought process. Always players should play in a group without any ego for the club, company or country. In the context of Odisha many young talents are here need to be get proper training and guidance.
25 Weightlifters felicitate in Brahmapur
Bhubaneswar: Sree Beer Hanuman Circus and Physical Institute felicitated 25 weightlifters at Brahmapur on Tuesday. The lifters were bagged medals in the Inter district Sub Junior and Junior Weight lifting Competition held at Titlagarah on November 9 to 10. Altogether 26 students of Sree Beer Hanuman Circus and Physical Institute, Berhampur participated and bagged ten gold, fourteen silver, and three bronze medals. The gold medalists were Mihirkant Sethi (new record), Kalia Behera, Prasad Mohanty (new record), Archana Pradhan, Padmini Padhi, Damini Kumari Sahu, Kalpana Mohanty, Banita Ghadai, and Suresh Yadav (new record) respectively. The silver medal winners were Sanatan Mallick, Bidyadhar Sahu ,Rakesh Jena, Sibaram Sahu, Ritu Tripathy, Baidehi Majhi, M.Rajeswari Behera and Rakesh Jena respectively. Besides these, Rajeswari Behera was won bronze Medal. The National Championship will be held at Gwahati from December 22 to 29, said the well known Weight lifting Coach Sri Ramesh Chandra Padhi. Among others, President of the Club Raghunath Mahapatra, Secretary of the Institute Nayan Sahu, Senior Weightlifter and former awardee Suryanarayan Satapathy, S Rama Rao, coach Ramesh Chandra Padhi, Pradeep Sahani, JN Nanda, Jagannath Nayak, Santosh Sahu, Pradip Sahu, Nakul Sahu and Kameswar were present in the felicitation ceremony.
Kalinga lancers probable hockey team list
Bhubaneswar: A 30-members probable players list has been shortlisted by the officials of the Odisha’s newly created Kalinga lancer team for the 2nd edition of Hockey India league to be held from January 23 to February 23.
The team would be comprised of 24 members in which 10 overseas players would get the chance, the franchise owner would spend total Rs 3.5 crores for the players auction to be held on November 22. We want to select players not to groom, but the players who will play for the team. In my opinion I do prefer young players who have the ability to play for win. The players who are thinking that as because they are the best in the country, have picked-up in the team. It is not true at all they have to change their mind set for the betterment of sports, said Hockey India Coach Terry Walsh. Kalinga lancer probables: Harjit Singh (USD 2,600), Baljit Singh (USD 2,600) (both Goalkeeper), Gurjinder Singh (USD 2,600), Ananda lakra (USD 2,600), Probodh Tirkey (USD 12,000), Harmanpreet Singh Bal (USD 2,600), Vickram Kanth (USD 5,200), Manjeet Kullu (USD 2,600), Ramon Alegre (USD 14,000), Gonzalo Peillat (USD 20,000), Keil Brown (USD 25,000) (all defenders), David Minz (USD 2,600), Ramandeep Singh (USD 2,600), Vikas Vishnu Pillay (USD 2,600), Vikash Sharma (USD 6,900), Vickram Swamy Vakkaliga (USD 6,000), Aran Zalewaski (USD 10,000), Glenn Simpson (USD 15,000), Barry Middleton (USD 25,000), ROC Oliva Isern (USD 15,000) (all midfield), Affan Yousuf (USD 2,600), lalit Kumar Upadhyaya (USD 2,600), Nikkin Thimmaiah Chandanda (USD 2,600), Jongho Seo (USD 25,000), lucas Villa (USD 25,000), Bharat Chikara (USD 12,000), Trent Mitton (USD 20,000), Russel Ford (USD 20,000), Jason Wilson (USD 20,000).