Everyone should listen to what the hockey team captain said after winning bronze
Paris Olympics / Everyone should listen to what the hockey team captain said after winning bronze
Paris Olympics - Everyone should listen to what the hockey team captain said after winning bronze
Paris Olympics: On the strength of PR Sreejesh's brilliant defense and Harmanpreet Singh's leadership, the Indian hockey team created history in the Paris Olympics. The Indian team was successful in finishing on the podium in back to back Olympics after 52 years. India won the second consecutive bronze medal in hockey. Earlier, the Indian team had won 2 consecutive bronze medals in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics. Harmanpreet Singh captained the Indian team brilliantly in the Paris Olympics and was the top scorer with 11 goals. Whenever the Indian team got a penalty corner, Captain Harman, popularly known as Sarpanch, took the responsibility of scoring goals and scored goals for the team on most occasions.After this historic victory, Harmanpreet thanked the countrymen for their support and appealed to support hockey as much as possible. The captain said, "I request everyone to please support hockey as much as possible. I promise every Indian that we will work hard and perform better in the next Olympics." Harmanpreet said, "We have managed to win two consecutive Olympic medals which shows that Indian hockey is progressing. We can beat any team. This is a big thing for the country and for us. Our dream was to win gold and everyone was confident that we would win. I want to apologize because we missed it by a small margin but this medal is everything for us."Complete status of the matchTalking about this bronze medal match played between India and Spain, both the teams could not open their account in the first 15 minutes. In the second quarter, Spain got a penalty stroke in the 18th minute on which Miralles opened his team's account. India got the first penalty corner of the match in the 28th minute but Harman missed to equalize. Halftime was about to end when India got a penalty corner a few seconds before, taking advantage of which the captain scored a goal and equalized for India.In the first half, the Indian team started attacking rapidly and got a penalty corner in the third minute itself. This time too Harmanpreet did wonders and put India ahead 2-1. After this Spain tried their best to make a comeback but could not break the wall of veteran PR Sreejesh and India got the bronze medal in hockey.