Olympic bronze-winning squad to join national hockey camp on Nov 14

The 30 member probable squad will camp in Bhubaneshwar till December 9 before Flying to Dhaka to play the Asian Champions trophy tournament which will commence from December 14-22. "It will be good to have the senior men's team train in Bhubaneswar as the weather here is almost similar to that of Dhaka. It will be great for the team to train in these conditions and get acclimatised," said chief coach Graham Reid while speaking about the camp.

Indian Hockey team which created history after winning the Bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday will join the Ongoing Hockey coaching camp in Bhubaneshwar. The Hockey camp was started on November 10 for the preparation of Asian Champions Trophy.

The 30 member probable squad will camp in Bhubaneshwar till December 9 before Flying to Dhaka to play the Asian Champions trophy tournament which will commence from December 14-22.

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"It will be good to have the senior men's team train in Bhubaneswar as the weather here is almost similar to that of Dhaka. It will be great for the team to train in these conditions and get acclimatised," said chief coach Graham Reid while speaking about the camp.

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"We will also be playing a few internal matches between the senior and the junior core probable that will surely help in our preparations for the Junior Men's World Cup," added Reid.

"The season next year will be busy for the senior squad with back-to-back major international tournaments and it will be great to kick off the year by defending the Asian Champions Trophy. We had a good camp in SAI, Bengaluru before the team went on a short break for Diwali and I believe this break would have done the players a lot of good to return to the camp feeling fresh mentally," added Reid.

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Manpreet Singh and PR Sreejesh are also the part of the group who will be honoured by the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award on Saturday

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The group also includes Harmanpreet Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Surender Kumar, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit, Hardik Singh, Simranjeet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Shamsher Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Varun Kumar who were all conferred with the Arjuna award for their historic performance in Tokyo Olympics.

Vivek Sagar Prasad, who is also in New Delhi for the Arjuna award ceremony, will join the senior camp after his campaign with the India Colt's team at the Junior World Cup, which concludes on December 5.

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The Asian Champions Trophy will be held from December 14-22 and will see defending champions India, Pakistan, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and hosts Bangladesh in the fray.

Core Group:

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Goalkeepers: PR Sreejesh, Krishan B Pathak, Suraj Karkera.

Defenders: Harmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Surender Kumar, Varun Kumar, Gurinder Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Dipsan Tirkey, Mandeep Mor, Ashis Kumar Topno, Suman Beck.

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Midfielders: Manpreet Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit, Hardik Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Raj Kumar Pal.

Forwards: Simranjeet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Shamsher Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Akashdeep Singh, Gursahibjit Singh, Shilanand Lakra, Dilpreet Singh. (Vivek Sagar Prasad is currently attending the junior camp)
 

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