Hockey World Cup 2010 starts today at New Delhi's Dhyan Chand National Stadium. A sport, which also happens to be our national sport( I am sure this will come as a breaking news to the new generation who have grown along side the hype and hoopla of modern day cricket) is languishing at the bottom of the popularity charts today. And it's very unfortunate.
Gone are the hockey fields, the sight of kids learning the finer aspects of this lovely traditional sport. This entire nation doesn't look beyond cricket. And this is precisely the reason why our misery continues in other sporting disciplines.
I was surprised when we were given the right to host the twelfth edition. I am a great fan of the sport of hockey and especially our glorious past. I still feel there is no dearth of talent, what we need is money, hell of a lot of money, to win our Golden moments back. IHF alone can't do much beyond a point, Corporates need to step forward and pledge their allegiance to this remarkable sport. Apart from Cricket, tennis( to some extent...... and thanks to the mercurial duo) and hockey, I am not sure about any other discipline, which can catapult us to the very top of international sporting arena.
It's my sincere request to everybody to chip in and support Hockey.Playing, watching, writing, discussing..........anything to popularise this game. Mere commercial endorsement from sporting icons of other sports isn't enough to get back to our winning ways.
Come let's cheer the sport.........Come let's cheer India !
GO INDIA....... GO !!
JAI HIND!!!
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