With the failure of Indian Hockey Team in qualifying for Olympics for the first time in 80 years still fresh in mind,one would have thought that it is the worst phase and it can get better only in the coming days…but what do we see….Corruption!!!!!!!.
This is the last thing that one would have thought to be the reasons behind Indian team’s poor showing in the past years.
The Shame…Disgrace…the Secretary of IHF Mr. Jyothikumaran has been caught red handed accepting money to select a player for a prestigious tournament… on TV….And think he has been at this post since 1994 !!……If the allegations are true then he has definitely cheated this nation.
As it is,the problems with the National Game of this country have been too many to count….Mr KPS Gill,the super cop and the president of IHF has been refusing to resign despite the poor showing of the team and repeated demands of many hockey players and parliamentarians….The problem of the game losing its popularity to cricket has been growing.The working of IHF has been least transparent.Many teams new to Hockey are defeating the Indian team like China did in the Asian Games…The FIH is threatening to take away the opportunity that it has given India of being host to the Hockey World Cup in 2010.And the last nail in the coffin has been laid by the corruption………
I believe Hockey is a very attractive game and personally I have been going to the stadium to watch the PHL matches regularly….The hands of Govt. are tied due to the Olympic Charter and Autonomy of IHF…….but if this rot continues I think the little interest that is left for this game in India would be gone too.The hockey has been stinged…
4 comments:
I met jyotikumaran few months back and played in senior team which lost to britain. We also took money from britain for the second goal..so this is the way it goes..if govt. doesnt pay us..we get self paid.
and btw i got my name back from aeronautical to taran..dont know how..:)
@Taran
Your first comment is the height of sarcasm!!
hey
guess m bit late up 'ere.....
well the cry has bin rosed gain 'n gain.....nd everytime its bin surpressed...d hockey legend dhanraj pillay once made a pt. how a player(dun noe d name.its always hard to rembr to a hockey player name!!!) bribed jyotikumaran to m,ake into the team. guess indyea as a nation has lost its spirit as an hockey nation!!!!
hard to believe fer the first tyme v ddn made to d olympics.....
mgain a lill pesimist about the latest developments....they made a group hu hav always bin biting each oder arses....lol!!!!!
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