Posts Tagged ‘Hockey’

Olympics Hockey – Pakistan Vs RSA Review

August 6th, 2012

Abdul Haseem Khan celebrating scoring a goal against South Africa. -Photo by Reuters

After completely horrible performance in the first biggest match of the tournament where Team GB totally devastated, already weaker, defence of Team Pakistan and successfully handled, relatively stronger, mid field to end the game with a 4 goals to one. Today team Pakistan got into another nerve testing and a classic hockey match that could put any one on the edge of the seat. A match where total 9 goals scored and there were total 30 attacks on the goal posts from the both sides. However, in the end Waseem Ahmed, and Captain Sohail Abbas snatched the victory from South African team in last ten minutes of the match.

That was indeed the best match of this whole tournament so far and resulted in the favour green shirts but this victory shall not over shadow the shortcomings that we have seen again in this match.

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Olympics Hockey – Pakistan Vs Argentine Review

August 2nd, 2012

Sohail Abbas After Scoring Goal

After drawing the match against Spain and some attentions of Pakistani viewers green shirts managed time win their second match in Olympics against Argentine by two goals. This has definitely given hope and some happiness to the deprived nation and Pakistani hockey fans though the ranked 9 team Argentine was slightly weaker as compared to green shirts. With all this praise green shirts have collected the have huge responsibility to meet during the matches against Australia and Great Britain. Team Pakistan played quite an attacking hockey yesterday and the strategy of mid field filled with more players work by giving backup support to the forward strikers. Though team missed many chances in second half where the factor of ‘lazy legs’ was seen especially from the older members of the team. During the match defence was better and complimented the attack, something that was missing against Spain.

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Pakistan Vs Spain – Review Olympics Hockey

July 30th, 2012

the sound of wood to wood

Olympics have begun and this event taking place in London is talk of the town now, and turning into a global phenomena. From Pakistan this year 21 athletes have traveled to London to take part in four different sports. The biggest part of this squad is team taking part in Men’s Hockey. Realistically speaking there are no hopes attached to the squad to get feel of victory stand, it has been 20 years now that Pakistan has seen what it is like an Olympic medal when last time it won Bronze medal in Barcelona Olympics in 1992.

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Paki Power Rocks

November 25th, 2010

I am happy and so is the nation as the green shirts in the final of Asian games 2010 gained the gold and it has been for the first time after 1994 Men’s Hockey World Cup nation has tasted the pride of being the champion with regards to Hockey. During the Hockey World cup this recently this year I created a hash tag on twitter to show my support towards our national game #PkHockey since then I am using this to show my support for men in green shirts with a hope that one day we will rise to the top, and that day have arrived.

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