PHF to hold trails for Champions Trophy on 30th May
Pakistan Hockey Federation is organizing trails on 30th May at Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium in Karachi for Champions Trophy which is scheduled to be held in Netherlands from June 23.
Pakistan senior hockey team trials will be held on May 30 under the supervision of Pakistan Hockey federation at Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium in Karachi for the Champions Trophy which is scheduled to be held in Netherlands from June 23.
The team manager said 22 players would be selected for the tour. “We want to take four more players there as we will hold a camp in Holland before the Champions Trophy,” he said.
The team manager said that Pakistan would depart on June 3 for Holland where they would attend a two-week camp to acclimatise with the conditions there. PHF has hired two specialised coaches, for goalkeeping and penalty corner drag flicking for the camp there, on the recommendations of Oltmans.
The teams in the Champions Trophy include the World Champions, the Olympic Champions, and the European Champions. Playing against them will help us ahead of Asian Games. He said that Pakistan players would do their best to beat archrivals India, against whom they played a draw in Commonwealth Games. Sardar said that weather was very hot in Karachi. “But we train the boys early in the morning from 6 to 8 and in the evening from 5 to 7,” he said.
