The upcoming Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka will be a ultimate platform for the perimeter gamers to showcase their skill and stake a claim in the first team, talked about Indian males’s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh.
The tournament, in the origin scheduled to be held closing year, has been postponed quite a lot of instances attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, and must nonetheless now be played from December 14 to 22. It’ll be India’s first time out after the team’s historic Olympics bronze medal-winning marketing campaign earlier this year. The Manpreet Singh-led aspect will be with out eight gamers from the Tokyo Games squad, including the likes of venerable goalkeeper PR Sreejesh who has been rested.
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— Manpreet Singh (@manpreetpawar07) August 9, 2021
“With virtually 10 gamers who were fragment of the Tokyo Olympic squad being rested, here’s an ravishing alternative for the gamers who had been ready on the sidelines to uncover of venture to manufacture in a vital worldwide tournament. It’ll be an accurate platform for them to showcase their skill and temperament,” talked about Manpreet before leaving for Dhaka on Friday (December 10).
Defending champions India would commence their marketing campaign on the gap day in opposition to Korea before locking horns in opposition to Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan and hosts Bangladesh in the finest-pool tournament for high honours. “That is our first time out after the Tokyo Olympics so naturally there would possibly maybe be extremely just a few excitement among the gamers. We salvage had an accurate coaching camp in Bhubaneswar and I in actuality feel for the reason that weather here is extremely equivalent to that of Dhaka, we are in a position to also no longer exhaust long to acclimatise,” the skipper talked about.
“It’ll be an accurate tournament no longer accurate in phrases of opponents nonetheless additionally to esteem about assorted team’s capabilities. We assess the development of varied Asian nations sooner than the all-vital Asian Games and Asia Cup next year,” the ace mid-fielder added.
After Korea, India will play Bangladesh on December 15, adopted by matches in opposition to arch-competitors Pakistan on December 17, Malaysia on December 18 and Japan on December 19.
The discontinuance-four teams from the pool phases will development to the semi-finals to be played on December 21 adopted by the title conflict on December 22. Within the old model of the tournament held in Muscat in 2018, India had jointly lifted the title alongside with Pakistan as the final used to be called off attributable to incessant rains.
