Hockey India (HI) Secretary Common Bhola Nath Singh on Wednesday urged that if the Pakistan hockey crew can come to India for the Asian Champions Trophy in Chennai, then the Males in Blue also needs to tour their neighbouring nation. If India males’s hockey crew didn’t win a gold medal in Asian Video games they must play in Pakistan to qualify for Paris 2024 Olympics. The Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) final month confirmed that China, Pakistan and Spain will host the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers going down from January 13 to 21 in 2024.

Pakistan is ready to host a world hockey occasion after almost 19 years. Eight groups will compete in Lahore from January 13 to January 24 of subsequent yr. Pakistan final hosted a FIH competitors in 2004.

“Indian authorities’s Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned very clearly that the Indian crew is not going to be stopped for going wherever to play an essential match. That’s his assertion and that is an Olympic qualifying match. It’s a main match. I do not assume the Indian authorities will say no to sending a crew for such an essential match. If wanted I’ll converse to the federal government in any case it’s a query of the Olympics. I do not assume there will probably be any hindrance to this. The remaining is as much as the Pakistan authorities and the way they arrange a match. How is the safety there? Pakistan crew is coming right here to play then why cannot we? Sports activities Minister may be very clear on this that there will probably be no hindrance to tournaments like this. Cricket is cricket and hockey is hockey,” Bhola Nath Singh mentioned in a press convention.

China and Spain are the opposite two nations scheduled to host the lads’s and ladies’s competitions, together with Pakistan. Every match will encompass 8 groups (16 groups per gender in complete).

Girls: Changzhou, China (one match) and Valencia, Spain (one match).

Males: Lahore, Pakistan (one match) and Valencia, Spain (one match).

The highest 3 groups in every of those FIH Hockey Olympic Qualification Tournaments will qualify for Paris 2024.

“Nicely I believe there are some robust examples. You had England, Australian, New Zealand cricket going time and again to Pakistan. They’ve created a really optimistic environment there. As you heard Hockey India’s dedication in the direction of it. So, I believe all different issues will simply be speculations solely,” FIH President Tayyab Ikram instructed ANI.

Coming to the present match, the Indian males’s hockey crew is going through Pakistan in its final group match of the Asian Champions Trophy Hockey 2023 on the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai. The conflict between India and Pakistan hockey groups fixtures have produced some pulsating contests through the years.

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