Indian men’s hockey team will start its campaign aiming for Olympic ticket.

The Indian men’s hockey team will be looking to make a great start to their campaign with a big win against Uzbekistan in Pool A of the Asian Games here on Sunday as they aim to qualify for the Paris Olympics. The Indian team is ranked third in the world rankings and is the highest ranked team in the Asian Games. In such a situation, a result less than a gold medal would be disappointing for the team led by Harmanpreet Singh.

The Indian team could only win a bronze medal in the last Asian Games and would like to compensate for that here. Looking at his current form, he is being considered a strong contender for the gold medal. After the new head coach Craig Fulton took over, the Indian team has consistently performed well. She won the Asian Champions Trophy title in Chennai last month which was like a dress rehearsal for the Asian Games. Top teams of Asia took part in this competition.

Therefore, a lot is expected from the Indian team and the new head coach Fulton is well aware of this. “I want to make India the number one team in Asia,” Fulton told PTI. We have to understand what situation we are in now and in which areas we need to improve. Certainly we would like to qualify for the Paris Olympics through the Asian Games and this is also our main goal.

Apart from Harmanpreet, India have good drag-flickers in Sanjay, Varun Kumar and Amit Rohidas and the team will try to take full advantage of penalty corners in the Asian Games. Olympic bronze medalist former captain Manpreet Singh, current vice-captain Hardik Singh and young Vivek Sagar Prasad will man the middle line, while in the front line, India have middlemen like Shamsher Singh, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek and Sukhjit Singh. Are players. India has two experienced goalkeepers in PR Sreejesh and Krishna Bahadur Pathak.

Apart from India and Uzbekistan, Pool A includes Pakistan, Singapore, Japan and Bangladesh while Pool B includes Korea, Malaysia, China, Oman, Thailand and Indonesia. After Uzbekistan, the Indian team will face Singapore on 26 September, Japan on 28 September, Pakistan on 30 September and Bangladesh on 2 October.

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