India, the eight-time Olympic champions, defeated Spain 2-1 within the play-off recreation to win a bronze medal in Paris.India’s ultimate Olympic hockey gold medal was received in 1980.
“Sreejesh is the very best individual, a legend, and India calls him the ‘Nice Wall’, wonderful, that’s all I can say he performed his greatest hockey, and he has contributed to the nation by enjoying hockey, and the usual he has set as a goalkeeper, it is going to encourage the subsequent technology,” ahead Lalit Upadhyay stated throughout a felicitation ceremony, as per PTI.
“I want to thank all the nation due to the overwhelming assist you may have given to hockey, just like the final time however much more so now, hockey continues to be within the hearts of individuals, they proceed to like the game and proceed to assist.”
Lalit additionally had nothing however respect for the event’s high scorer, Harmanpreet Singh, an impressed skipper who completed with ten objectives.
“The nation has given him (Harmanpreet) a brand new nickname (Sarpanch). I’m glad that the nation gave him this nickname, those who love hockey, as an incredible captain, he has proven his character and to be the highest scorer of the Olympics is a giant achievement.
“He’s a legend, there may be way more to do now, and our imaginative and prescient is that we transfer ahead and we are able to change the color of the medal and obtain our dream.”
Lalit recalled the crew’s tenacity towards Nice Britain within the quarterfinal, once they had been lowered to 10 males for over 40 minutes of play but nonetheless prevailed.
“I want to thank the teaching workers and all of the gamers, we performed like a cohesive unit and confirmed the character of the crew, we needed to give it our all, as a result of in that second we had no choice to again down. That was the match and I can’t say extra,” he stated.
After retiring from hockey, Sreejesh obtained good needs from defender Jarmanpreet Singh.
“I don’t have to say something about Sreejesh, all the nation praises him and has seen him play, all of them name him the ‘Wall’, he’s a legend and an incredible participant. I had quite a lot of enjoyable enjoying hockey with him, and I want Sreejesh continues to do good work for hockey,” he stated.
He additionally complimented captain Harmanpreet’s efficiency within the competitors.
“Harmanpreet is a aim machine of the crew and we obtain quite a lot of assist from him he’s the ‘Sarpanch’.”
Jarmanpreet was completely satisfied along with his personal efficiency in his maiden Olympics.
“I loved myself at this yr’s Olympics, this was my first Olympics, and my goal was to carry out nicely for my crew and the nation.
