Colts will match the achievements of the Olympic Olympics seniors despite the absence of supporters at the Kalinga Stadium of the Junior Hockey World Cup will begin at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday and the host India will try to defend the crown they won in Lucknow five years.
Read Alsophool World Cup Hockey Junior: The big challenge for the Odishathe Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar will host 16 teams, including people like the most successful nations in the Hoki Junior World Cup – Germany (6 degrees), France, Belgium, France, Belgium , Spain, Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea and of course Host and Champions Defense – India, among them the preparation of the team for the event has been hampered by a pandemic, the players are filled with confidence following the achievement of the senior team bronze winner at the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo in Tokyo Tokyo Olympics.
In addition, with top teams such as New Zealand, England and Australia come out of the tournament because of the Covid situation, the home team will have their duty when they start their journey against France today.
The team will be led by Vivek Sagar Prasad, who hopes to take advantage of the experience he gets as a member of the Indian Olympic contingent and helps junior players learn from him.
Speaking at a virtual press conference on Tuesday, the 21-year-old said, “I learned from the big stage how to keep the team together and I want to apply it here too.
It’s always the first team.
It’s important to stay together on the field and it will help We perform better on the field too.
“To guide the team, there will also be the head coach of Graham Reid’s men and he will look to add another feather to a hat after helping India win the Olympic medal after a 41-year loophole.
While the competition will be difficult, Australia sounds quite happy by the way the team plays in a training match against the Netherlands, Germany and the United States for the past few days.
The juniors have also played with senior players and it was very helpful.
But the coach doesn’t want to take their first attendant lightly.
The French junior team has finished runners-up at the 2013 World Cup in New Delhi after they lost to Germany at Clash Summit.
“They will play like a European team.
They will be good at holding the ball.
They will move the ball quickly and attack the right advantage.
They also have two good strikers who will cause a good challenge for us,” Reid said during a virtual press conference.
Apart from all this, it should not be too difficult for the Indian team, which is placed in Group A with Canada and Poland apart from France.
The opening day will see four other matches with the opening game between Belgium and South Africa in Pond A.
Belgium is the current World Cup winner and Olympic champions and they will want to add their trophies to their cabinets.
Germany, who played Pakistan on Wednesday, has won an event for a record six times and is another favorite other than the Netherlands and Argentina.
Pakistan, who took part in the event after losing five years ago, as would usually be a dark horse.
However, unlike many international events that have taken place in Bhubaneswar in the past, the tournament will continue into bio bubbles without fans because the Covid protocol is enforced.
It is very sad that the players will lose the atmosphere of the full Kalinga stadium which is full but hopefully it will not stop them from giving their best level in the field for 60 minutes.