New Delhi: After seeing his mother loudly to raise him, the Hockey Captain of Indian Man Manpreet Singh understood the meaning of the challenge quite early in life and when he prepared for the third consecutive Olympic appearance, he was driven by the desire to make his sacrifice.
Calculate more than before.
Olympic veteran at 29, Manpreet, along with the Champion Boxer MC Mary Kom, will be a bearer of the Indian flag at the opening ceremony and face the task of Herculean lead the country to his first Hockey medal at the Olympics in more than four decades, starting in July, starting July, starting July, starting July 23 in Tokyo.
“My mother is the biggest inspiration in my life.
If she isn’t there I will not be anything.
He is a motivation behind who I am today.
I owe everything I get in my career,” Manpreet told PTI in a talking interview about inspiration.
Mrs.
Manpreet, Manjeet Kaur, had to take part time work to support the family after his father was jammed by a mental health problem and had to submit his career.
His father died in 2016 while Manpreet competed in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.
“My mother had seen a lot of trouble.
He lifted myself since childhood after my father developed a mental problem,” he said.
He had undergone a dream after the nomination as a flag, became the first hockey player since his Idol Pargate Singh (1996) for honor.
“This is a privilege for me to give the honor.
I am the sixth hockey player who has this opportunity.” The Singh Pargate is the first hockey player from my village (Mithapur in Punjab) to get this opportunity in 1996.
I consider myself lucky to have this opportunity, “he said.
Midfielder Ace knows that it won’t be easy to achieve the ninth Olympic gold in the country and First since the 1980 Moscow match.
But he believes that the joint team’s efforts can even reach.
It is impossible.
“Our target is to complete the podium and my target cannot be different from the team because Hockey is a team game.
I can’t achieve anything alone, “Manpreet said.” But to achieve it that we must keep our focus as intact.
We need to give an important meaning to every team, can’t underestimate any team.
“Except the World Cup and Olympic medal, Manpreet has almost every medal that will be won in his closet.” Besides the Olympics, the World Cup Cup was lost and gold in the Commonwealth Game.
But our current focus is only at the Olympics.
We need to take a hard step for it, there is no team that will be easy at the Olympics, “he said.
The world No.4 India is being beaten in Group A with Argentine champions, Mighty Australia, host Japan, New Zealand and Spain at the Olympics and Manpreet Said the League campaign sound will be the key to India’s success in Tokyo.
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Our focus is in every match.
If we perform well in every match the match will definitely come.
So we need to focus on our basics.
The league stage will be very important, “he said.” We have worked a lot on our attacks, a penalty corner because the coach felt that we created many opportunities in the box but did not get the desired results.
“We have the best drag-flickers in the world and the need for hours is to use as much as possible,” he added to refer to the trio of Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh and Amit Rohidas.
Manpreet has struggled against Covid-19 along with four other players after returning to the National Camp in Bengaloru from a short break last year.
It was a difficult phase for him.
“Yes, it was rather difficult when I got Covid along with four other players, but I wanted to give special thanks to Indian sports authorities (SAI), the Ministry of Sports and Hockey India to take care of us well when we were in the hospital” he remembered , Given the case of covid that jumped, the Tokyo Olympics will be held under an emergency with a strict health safety protocol without fans.
“We don’t know what the protocol and rules will be in Tokyo.
But if we talk about our group, we have followed the same Covid protocol for the past half a year,” Manpreet said.
“We did not meet other people other than groups.
We will go directly to our room from the ground.
So I don’t think we will have too many problems in following the rules in Tokyo.” The Indian Hockey team will depart for Tokyo on July 17 along with the first batch of the Indian contingent.