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24-Apr-2012

The News correspondent

 
KARACHI: Ahmed Alam, Pakistan’s junior hockey team’s goal-keeping coach, has said that he was striving for the colts to lift the 7th men’s Junior Asia Cup by virtue of which the team would also earn a direct berth for the Junior Hockey World Cup.
 
Pakistan junior hockey team will train for the Junior Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in Malacca, Malaysia, from May 3 to 13 at the Hockey Club of Pakistan (HCP).
Alam told ‘The News’ that the team needed to reach the final of Junior Asia cup 2012 to qualify for the world cup.
 
The former Olympian said that coaching was continuing in a smooth way and “we are removing their shortcomings and working on exploring the weaknesses of our main rivals.”
 
He said that winning the Junior Asia Cup could boost the Pakistani hockey as it did when the seniors clinched the Asia Cup title after two decades.
 
Alam said that South Korea would be a tough opponent in the Asia cup “but at the same time we cannot neglect Malaysia and India. Besides China and Japan are also playing well.”
 
He appreciated the move of establishing hockey academies to groom boys at grassroots level and said that some players from these academies had joined the current national junior training camp.
 

Following boys are training at HCP under the supervision of former Olympian Rana Mujahid, who is the Camp Commandant: Amjad Ali, Muhammad Khalid, Muhammad Aleem Bilal, Zohaib Ashraf, Muhammad Bilal, Fahad Khan, Muhammad Dilber, Hafiz Rizwan Ali, Hafiz Umer Sardar, Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Jaffar, Muhammad Faisal Qadir, Muhammad Kashif Javed, Mazhar Abbas, Muhamamd Suleman, Muhammad Irfan, Tasawwar Abbas, Waseem Abbas, Ammad Shakeel Butt, Syed Kashif Shah, Muhammad Tousiq, Ali Shan, Muhammad Rizwan Junior and Muhammad Umar Bhutta