Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: August 22, 2023, 07:48 IST
Asian Champions Trophy: India vs Pakistan (HI)
Pakistan Hockey Federation has sacked their total males’s crew teaching workers weeks after a poor exhibiting within the Asian Champions Trophy forward of the Asian Games.
The total teaching workers of Pakistan males’s hockey crew was reportedly sacked by nation’s sports activities board-run committee after it failed attain the semi-final of the recently-concluded Asian Champions Trophy in India.
Shahnaz Sheikh has been named the pinnacle coach however the transfer has courted controversy with the individual in query being part of the Pakistan Sports Board run committee that apparently issued ‘Pink Slips’ to Rehan Butt, Muhammad Saqlain, Haseem Khan and Muhammad Ghafoor, who have been all in Chennai for the Asian Champions Trophy in Chennai.
Shahnaz has been a head coach earlier additionally. He was additionally named as a guide and was scheduled to journey to Chennai for ACT however Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) couldn’t acquire a visa for him on time.
PHF insiders knowledgeable that Shahnaz was not pleased with the event and believed the PHF didn’t do sufficient to make sure he received the visa on time and travelled with the crew, which completed fifth within the six-team competitors received by India.
India thrashed Pakistan 4-0 in a league match.
This is why, quickly after the crew returned dwelling, the committee, which included Shahnaz and different former Olympians Akhtar Rasool and Islahuddin Siddiqui, supported the PSB determination to dissolve the PHF.
The new set of coaches, which can work with Shahnaz, embody Shakeel Abbasi, Amjad Ali and Dilawar Hussain.
The fascinating half is that with the PSB dissolving the PHF, the hockey circle is mystified by how the PHF introduced the change within the crew administration and appointment of Shahnaz as head coach for the Asian Games.
Meanwhile, the PHF nationwide choice committee, led by Olympian Kaleemullah, introduced 36 probables for the Asian Games. These probables will attend a coaching camp beginning on the Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Probables:
Goalkeepers: Akmal Hussain, Abdullah Ishtiyaq Khan, Waqar, Ali Raza, Abdullah Sheikh. Defenders: Mohammad Abdullah, Arbaz Ahmad, Mohammad Sufyan Khan, Aqeel Ahmed, Mohammad Bilal Aslam. Midfielders: Usama Bashir, Mohammad Murtaza Yaqoob, Arbaz Ayaz, Ahtisham Aslam, Mohammad Baqar, Mohammad Nadeem Khan, Mohammad Imran, Syed Shehbaz Haider
Forwards: Mohammad Imad, Afraz, Roman, Arshad Liaquat, Abdul Qayyum, Abdul Rehman, Waqar Ali, Mohammad Arsalan, Mohammad Umar Bhat, Abdul Hannan Shahid, Mohammad Shahzaib Khan, Abdul Wahab, Zikriya Hayat, Bisharat Ali, Rana Waleed, Hamza Fayaz, Abdul Rehman.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – PTI)
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