NEW DELHI: Veteran India goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, taking part in his final worldwide match, on Friday in contrast his function for the youthful group members to that of Dhanraj Pillay for earlier generations.
At 36, star Sreejesh is competing alongside a lot youthful gamers in hopes of securing a podium end for India.
Sreejesh, collaborating in his fourth and remaining Olympics, beforehand introduced his retirement following the Paris Video games.
The skilled custodian from Kerala was instrumental in India’s outstanding 3-2 victory over Australia on Friday, a win that broke a 52-year-long drought in Olympic males’s hockey competitions towards Australia.
“I do not know these stats. Everybody performed properly in the present day not simply the defence. The defence begins from centre-forward and I’m the final man. All did properly in the present day,” information company PTI quoted Sreejesh, considered the ‘Wall of Indian hockey’, as saying after the match.
“I’m taking part in with fourth technology on this group. Some weren’t even born after I began taking part in hockey. Just a few years again, gamers needed to do it for Dhanraj Pillay. I’m Dhanraj for this technology, they wish to do it for me, what extra you possibly can you ask for,” he added.
Dhanraj, one in all India’s biggest forwards, had impressed a resurgence in Indian hockey, main the group to an Asian Video games gold in 1998 after a 32-year hole. Earlier than that, India secured gold within the Asian Video games in 1966.
India concluded the pool phases second in Pool B, trailing behind reigning Olympic champions Belgium.
At 36, star Sreejesh is competing alongside a lot youthful gamers in hopes of securing a podium end for India.
Sreejesh, collaborating in his fourth and remaining Olympics, beforehand introduced his retirement following the Paris Video games.
The skilled custodian from Kerala was instrumental in India’s outstanding 3-2 victory over Australia on Friday, a win that broke a 52-year-long drought in Olympic males’s hockey competitions towards Australia.
“I do not know these stats. Everybody performed properly in the present day not simply the defence. The defence begins from centre-forward and I’m the final man. All did properly in the present day,” information company PTI quoted Sreejesh, considered the ‘Wall of Indian hockey’, as saying after the match.
“I’m taking part in with fourth technology on this group. Some weren’t even born after I began taking part in hockey. Just a few years again, gamers needed to do it for Dhanraj Pillay. I’m Dhanraj for this technology, they wish to do it for me, what extra you possibly can you ask for,” he added.
Dhanraj, one in all India’s biggest forwards, had impressed a resurgence in Indian hockey, main the group to an Asian Video games gold in 1998 after a 32-year hole. Earlier than that, India secured gold within the Asian Video games in 1966.
India concluded the pool phases second in Pool B, trailing behind reigning Olympic champions Belgium.
