News for 10 January 2023
All the news for Tuesday 10 January 2023
Japan receive warm welcome in Odisha ahead of FIH Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela
The Japan Men’s Hockey Team reached Bhubaneswar on Monday.
Bhubaneswar: The Japan Men's Hockey Team arrived in Odisha on Monday for the FIH Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela, and received a warm reception at the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar. 
FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela: Pool C preview
The 16 best men’s teams from around the world are converging in Odisha, India as we countdown to the final free days till the start of the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023! Each team comes with the aim of becoming world champions, but only one team can earn the highest honour at the end of the World Cup. The first obstacle for all 16 teams in the event come in the form of their pool opponents. Winning the pool gives the teams a huge advantage, as it leads to straight qualification into the quarterfinals, while second and third placed teams play an additional cross-over round. In today’s preview, meet the teams in Pool C, and find out the unique playing styles they will bring to the World Cup.
Ignorance is bliss for Dutch skipper ahead of opening match with Malaysia
Dutch skipper Thierry Brinkman has admitted that he doesn’t know much about the Malaysian hockey team. - NSTP/ASYRAF HAMZAH
KUALA LUMPUR: Dutch skipper Thierry Brinkman has admitted that he doesn't know much about the Malaysian hockey team.
Blaak ready to block Malaysia again in World Cup
-NSTP file pic
KUALA LUMPUR: Dutch keeper Pirmin Blaak intends to blank out Malaysia in hockey's World Cup in India.
Chile aims to turn up the heat in World Cup
The South Americans are ready to give the Netherlands, Malaysia and New Zealand a taste of their fiery hockey in the Bhubaneswar-Rourkela World Cup which starts on Jan 13. - Pic credit Twitter @faro_deportivo
KUALA LUMPUR: Chile is ready to spice up Malaysia's group in their World Cup hockey debut in India.
Argentina Hockey Olympics heroes Peillat, Menini in Odisha for World Cup — this time for Germany and Spain
Both made their international debuts for their new sides last year. Both missed out on potentially three most productive years of their sporting careers — Peillat was 26, and Menini just a year older at the last World Cup.
Jonathan Selvaraj
Gonzalo Peillat was once the lynchpin of Argentina’s hockey team. | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout
Four years ago, trailing 2-3 against England in the dying moments of the Hockey World Cup quarterfinals in Bhubaneswar, Gonzalo Peillat took a desperate shot from near the halfway line. The thunderbolt from the drag flick specialist took a deflection, and only a desperate outstretched foot by the English ‘keeper prevented a hat-trick for Peillat and kept the then Olympic champion from forcing a shootout. The final whistle blew just as the ball bobbled to safety.
Team SA to battle it out for top honours at Hockey Men’s World Cup
The first match of the World Cup will be played in the Kalinga stadium in Bhubaneswar between reigning African Champions, and winners of the recent inaugural edition of the FIH Hockey Men’s Nations Cup, South Africa and the 2016 Olympic Gold medalists Argentina.
Palesa Manaleng
South Africa's hockey captain, Dayaan Cassiem. Picture: Voice of the Cape/ Twitter.
JOHANNESBURG - Team South Africa is in India for the 15th FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.
Individual brilliance important but you can’t win titles- Ric Charlesworth
The Legendary Australian coach simplifies the secret to winning-- playing as a team, sublimating personal ambitions for the greater good.
Uthra Ganesan
Australian hockey coach Ric Charlesworth. (File Photo) | Photo Credit: BISWARANJANROUT
Ric Charlesworth needs no introduction. Often considered the best hockey coach in the world, he is unique in his achievements -- winning the World Cup, twice over, with both the Australian men and women, the Olympics with the Hockeyroos and every other major competition – besides being the top-scorer en route to Australia’s maiden World Cup triumph in 1986.
Top goal scorers in Men's Hockey World Cup history - Stats & Standings
Take a look at the top goal scorers in the history of the Men's Hockey World Cup.
By Gayathri Venkatraman
Top Goal Scorers in the FIH Men's Hockey World Cup
With the 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup to be held in Odisha just days away, we take a look at the highest goal scoring nations as well as the highest goal scorers in each edition in the tournament's history.
India at Hockey World Cup: 1975 win in Kuala Lumpur only shining spot
India have won the hockey World Cup just once. The men’s team lifted the trophy in 1975. The women’s team’s best finish at the FIH Hockey World Cup is fourth.
By Utathya Nag
Indian men's hockey team with Hockey World Cup 1975 (Picture by Hockey India)
Since the 1970s, the Hockey World Cup has been the premier standalone tournament for the sport.
Hockey India enters the world of Metaverse, launches 'Hockeyverse' ahead of FIH Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela
The new metaverse platform will give global fans a virtual experience of the mega event starting on 13th January
New Delhi: Embracing the latest tech buzzword, Hockey India becomes the first National Sports Federation to enter the world of metaverse. On Monday, only days before the FIH Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela, Hockey India launched the 'Hockeyverse' on their social media platforms.
Fact check: Is Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium the largest in the world?
With the 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup in the country just days away, a new controversy has cropped up surrounding the newly built Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela.
The Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela (Source: Outlook India)
Nothing in India is ever free of controversies. Now with the 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup in the country just days away, a new controversy has cropped up surrounding the newly built Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, Odisha.
Namibia fine-tunes for Indoor Hockey World Cup
by Helge Schütz
THE Namibian women's national hockey team stepped up their preparations for next month's Indoor Hockey World Cup with three warm-up matches against an invitational men's team in Windhoek over the weekend.
Men's Junior AHF Cup - 10 January
Muscat (OMA)
All times GMT +4
9 Jan 2023 12:00 BAN v UZB (Pool B) 6 - 1
9 Jan 2023 14:00 HKG v SRI (Pool B) 3 - 5
9 Jan 2023 16:00 TPE v THA (Pool A) 1 - 1
9 Jan 2023 18:00 OMA v INA (Pool A) 8 - 0
10 Jan is a rest day
Final Pool standings
FIH Match Centre
Super 6s First Weekend Qualifiers Review
Image Credit - Eva Gilbertt
The Super 6s indoor championships opening weekend did not disappoint, with 1,214 goals being scored across the 8 women’s and men’s divisions in 204 games.
No Premier Hockey League in near future
Anisur Rahman
Although the introduction of franchise-based Hockey Champions Trophy (HCT) last November presented a new ray of hope to revive the sport in the country, the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) officials have not yet chalked out a plan regarding when the next edition of the Premier Hockey League (PHL) will take place.