World cup Hockey 2010 is going to start on 28th Febuary in New Dehli. Twelve teams from all around the world will be participating in this prestigious event of international hockey.
Here is the participation from continents
1. Australia & New Zeland from Oceana Continent ( Autralians are favourites)
2. Germany, Netherland,Spain, England from Europe
3. Pakistan, India and S.Korea from Asia
4.Canada from North America region
5. Argentina from South America
6. South Africa from Africa continent
This tournamnent is played every four years and considered as a mega event of field hockey. Unfortunately , unlike FiFA world cup or Cricke world cup, this event remains low profile , however hockey lovers deperately waiting for this event.This time however,many TV channels are telecasting these matches live . For example ten sports in India and Pakistan, Show sports 3 in Middleast / Asean and Fox sports in US and Canada. Beside this live telecast, FIH is promoting this event on face book, Twitter and you tube as well.
Here is the official web site of event
http://specials.msn.co.in/sp10/hockey/
Here are updated list of channels telecasting matches of world cup hockey 2010
Spanning all five continents, the Hero Honda FIH World Cup’s list of broadcasters and expected coverage is as follows. Please check local schedules for full details:
· Ten Sports (cable and satellite; India Subcontinent) – all matches live
· Astro Super sports (cable and satellite; Malaysia, Indonesia) – all matches live
· Starhub – (cable and satellite, Singapore) – all matches live or delayed
· PTV (terrestrial, Pakistan) – PAK matches and final
· NOS (terrestrial, Netherlands)– extended daily highlights and live coverage of selected matches
· Sport 1 (cable and satellite, Netherlands) – all matches live
· Teledeportes (digital terrestrial, Spain) – ESP matches and final
· Sport Digital (cable and satellite, Germany) – schedule TBC
· ARD/ZDF (terrestrial, Germany) – extended news
· Deutsche Welle (worldwide) – extended news
· Zee (cable and satellite; UK) – all matches live (to be screened on Zing (Sky 789 / Freesat 509 / Virgin Media) according to Zee TV and will be free)
· Cricket Plus (cable and satellite; USA and Canada) – all matches live and delayed
· ESPN Sur – (cable and satellite; Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay) – all Argentina matches plus final
· SKY SPORTS – (cable and satellite, New Zealand) – NZ matches and final
· FOX Sports (cable and satellite, Australia) – AUS matches and final
· Showtime – (cable and satellite; Middle East) – all matches live
· Supersports (cable and satellite, pan-Africa) – RSA matches and final
Internet pay per view – all matches available live and on-demand via WorldHockey.org
· Highlights available free via WorldHockey.org
· BBC Online – extended news
· Telegraph.co.uk – coverage TBC
· Sport1.de – all matches live
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Thursday, 11 February 2010
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
World cup hockey 2009 - Qualifying Round France
Qualifying tournament for World cup hockey 2010 is currently being played in Lille France. as it is
Our team , Pakistan Hockey team ( so called Green shirts ) have played nicely till date and they have won all three matches against Russia,France and Italy by quite big margin. It is a good news for hockey lovers in Pakistan but in my view until and unless Pakistani boys do not won the final of this tournament , we should not be so much happy. Reason being our team has played very good in some other recent tournaments , but loose their spirits in final match. Now , here in Lille, there is no such chance for pakis. They will play 2010 world cup hockey if and only if they win this tournament.
Good news is that sohail Abbas is scoring good on penality corners. This is a healthy sign.
I hope that inshallah , Pakistani team will win this very important tournament as it is do or die situation for game of hockey in Pakistan
Another good thing about this tournament is that FIH is covering well this tournament.Highlights of all matches are available on youtube and also on following web site
http://www.worldcupqualifiermenfrance.sportcentric.com/vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,5227-199239-216462-47641-301903-custom-item,00.html
Our team , Pakistan Hockey team ( so called Green shirts ) have played nicely till date and they have won all three matches against Russia,France and Italy by quite big margin. It is a good news for hockey lovers in Pakistan but in my view until and unless Pakistani boys do not won the final of this tournament , we should not be so much happy. Reason being our team has played very good in some other recent tournaments , but loose their spirits in final match. Now , here in Lille, there is no such chance for pakis. They will play 2010 world cup hockey if and only if they win this tournament.
Good news is that sohail Abbas is scoring good on penality corners. This is a healthy sign.
I hope that inshallah , Pakistani team will win this very important tournament as it is do or die situation for game of hockey in Pakistan
Another good thing about this tournament is that FIH is covering well this tournament.Highlights of all matches are available on youtube and also on following web site
http://www.worldcupqualifiermenfrance.sportcentric.com/vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,5227-199239-216462-47641-301903-custom-item,00.html
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Did we suffer today again?
Yes we lost final against Korea today , but off course the way green shirts have played this whole tournament is remarkable.
Even in the final, their game was excellent but we missed the chances and especially sohail abbas did not click. I was yesterday reading articles and news on fieldhoceky.com and realized that every player of team wanted to win. They believe that we did not have won any major title since long time and it is now required desperately to win some titles otherwise game of hockey will vanish from Pakistan.
Anyhow sometimes we have to accept the fact that everything is not in our hand. We can try our best and result is up to Almighty.
Returning on very good aspect of this tournament was interest shown by hockey lovers in Pakistan. They again showed their strength and put so much pressure on PHF and government that finally PTV telecasted Final match "Live" today.It is really great success of hockey fans.
I must say to green shirts"Keep it up". The way you played in this Asia cup, if you continue to play in future as well , you may be in final of Next World cup.
Committment, Team work and Fitness.. These are three things which can revive pakistan hockey again
Keep it UP,
Even in the final, their game was excellent but we missed the chances and especially sohail abbas did not click. I was yesterday reading articles and news on fieldhoceky.com and realized that every player of team wanted to win. They believe that we did not have won any major title since long time and it is now required desperately to win some titles otherwise game of hockey will vanish from Pakistan.
Anyhow sometimes we have to accept the fact that everything is not in our hand. We can try our best and result is up to Almighty.
Returning on very good aspect of this tournament was interest shown by hockey lovers in Pakistan. They again showed their strength and put so much pressure on PHF and government that finally PTV telecasted Final match "Live" today.It is really great success of hockey fans.
I must say to green shirts"Keep it up". The way you played in this Asia cup, if you continue to play in future as well , you may be in final of Next World cup.
Committment, Team work and Fitness.. These are three things which can revive pakistan hockey again
Keep it UP,
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Why we "hockey Lovers" always suffer?
When i am adding this new entry in my blogs , i am filled with feeling of happiness as well as sorrow.
I am happy because Pakistani hockey team reaches final of any big tournament (ASIA CUP 2009) after very long period of time. We , as Pakistani hockey fans, are now so used to losing matches that news of winning matches really astonishes us.
I still remember my days of childhood , when green shirts only loose to teams like Australia and West Germany and i usually go for hunger as sorrow. But now when green shirts loose their matches against minnows like China & Belgium , i still hear the news with courage . Internally , probably i have accepted the fact that in world of hockey we have completely lost our glory...
Anyhow, at least today i am glad.. Team has performed well so far in this tournament and we did not loose a single match till now ( except we drew against china in first match).
Beating India and Malaysia are really good signs...
Now returning to my sorrow. I am sad because i missed the action. I was expecting that any sports channel ( from India/ Pakistan/ Korea/ Malaysia) will telecast these matches , but was shocked to hear the news that "NO" channel in this modern world will telecast the live or recorded action from this biggest tournament of Asian hockey.
It is so surprising to hear that even Malaysian fans misses live action from their national team matches.
This happened because MHF sold the exclusive telecast rights of tournament to an internet based company and this company and its website till today , not able to telecast any live match till now.Even no important match video available in its so called store and video in demand and Live TV.
Thousands of lovers visited this website, but so sad that no one of them could see either live or recorded telecast of any important match.
You can also visit this website and search for any recording of any important match like INDIA-PAKISTAN , but you will not be able to find any one.
This is most pathetic attitude shown by MHF towards any tournament. I would blame not only MHF , but also blame AHF and eventually IHF , which claims to work for making hockey a popular and famous game.
HOW CAN YOU MAKE ANY SPORTS A POPULAR SPORTS WITHOUT TELE-COVERAGE nowadays.
Then comes role of our INDO-PAK TV channels. We have plenty of world renowned channels in sub-continent including PTV, GEO SUPER, ARY, GEO from pakistan and ZEE TV, ZEE SPORTS, DOORDARSHAN,NEO SOPRTS, TENSOPRTS, ESPN), but can you believe me these channels can telecast live matches from IPL or between Srilanka/Westindies five days test matches but can not telecast final match of ASIA cup hockey or Azlan shah hockey tournament or Champions Trophy.
Now turn on any sports channel of subcontinent and you will enjoy every sort of cricket matches... from test matches to T20 matches.I am not against cricket, but i would like to say that every sports should be given its right place.
My Indian hockey loving fellows will also agree that although India has been ruler of hockey for long time and hockey is "still " their "National Game" , but hockey is being treated as step child in last 10-15 years in india as well ( just like in our country ).
I dont know , why Governments of India/Pakistan still maintain hockey as "National Sports" after this pathetic treatment..They should make Cricket or Tennis as their national sports ...Keeping any sports as so called " national sports " and then killing even roots of that sports makes no sense.
Some people would say , it is because we are not winning on green fields for long time.. that's why people are loosing interest in hockey matches?We don't have enough sponsors to telecast matches..
But this argument is not acceptable for me . India won , only one time cricket world cup more than 15 years ago and Pakistan won only one world cricket cup in 1992 and that's it...since then both India and Pakistan continue to loose cricket matches. Ok they win also , but same happened in hockey as well. Sometimes we won and sometime we loose. On the other hand at least our hockey history is strong; Pakistan is four time world champion and four time olympic champion in hockey and similarly India has won olympic hockey 4,5 times as well.
I would say it is just poor marketing strategy of IHF and AHF , due to which this glorious game of hockey is being neglected.Similarly in our subcontinent , it is just internal politics due to which we "hockey lovers" always suffer...either sometimes by hearing news of loosing against Japan or sometimes sitting in front of our TV sets in a hope to see any single hockey match "Live " or "Recorded".
I am happy because Pakistani hockey team reaches final of any big tournament (ASIA CUP 2009) after very long period of time. We , as Pakistani hockey fans, are now so used to losing matches that news of winning matches really astonishes us.
I still remember my days of childhood , when green shirts only loose to teams like Australia and West Germany and i usually go for hunger as sorrow. But now when green shirts loose their matches against minnows like China & Belgium , i still hear the news with courage . Internally , probably i have accepted the fact that in world of hockey we have completely lost our glory...
Anyhow, at least today i am glad.. Team has performed well so far in this tournament and we did not loose a single match till now ( except we drew against china in first match).
Beating India and Malaysia are really good signs...
Now returning to my sorrow. I am sad because i missed the action. I was expecting that any sports channel ( from India/ Pakistan/ Korea/ Malaysia) will telecast these matches , but was shocked to hear the news that "NO" channel in this modern world will telecast the live or recorded action from this biggest tournament of Asian hockey.
It is so surprising to hear that even Malaysian fans misses live action from their national team matches.
This happened because MHF sold the exclusive telecast rights of tournament to an internet based company and this company and its website till today , not able to telecast any live match till now.Even no important match video available in its so called store and video in demand and Live TV.
Thousands of lovers visited this website, but so sad that no one of them could see either live or recorded telecast of any important match.
You can also visit this website and search for any recording of any important match like INDIA-PAKISTAN , but you will not be able to find any one.
This is most pathetic attitude shown by MHF towards any tournament. I would blame not only MHF , but also blame AHF and eventually IHF , which claims to work for making hockey a popular and famous game.
HOW CAN YOU MAKE ANY SPORTS A POPULAR SPORTS WITHOUT TELE-COVERAGE nowadays.
Then comes role of our INDO-PAK TV channels. We have plenty of world renowned channels in sub-continent including PTV, GEO SUPER, ARY, GEO from pakistan and ZEE TV, ZEE SPORTS, DOORDARSHAN,NEO SOPRTS, TENSOPRTS, ESPN), but can you believe me these channels can telecast live matches from IPL or between Srilanka/Westindies five days test matches but can not telecast final match of ASIA cup hockey or Azlan shah hockey tournament or Champions Trophy.
Now turn on any sports channel of subcontinent and you will enjoy every sort of cricket matches... from test matches to T20 matches.I am not against cricket, but i would like to say that every sports should be given its right place.
My Indian hockey loving fellows will also agree that although India has been ruler of hockey for long time and hockey is "still " their "National Game" , but hockey is being treated as step child in last 10-15 years in india as well ( just like in our country ).
I dont know , why Governments of India/Pakistan still maintain hockey as "National Sports" after this pathetic treatment..They should make Cricket or Tennis as their national sports ...Keeping any sports as so called " national sports " and then killing even roots of that sports makes no sense.
Some people would say , it is because we are not winning on green fields for long time.. that's why people are loosing interest in hockey matches?We don't have enough sponsors to telecast matches..
But this argument is not acceptable for me . India won , only one time cricket world cup more than 15 years ago and Pakistan won only one world cricket cup in 1992 and that's it...since then both India and Pakistan continue to loose cricket matches. Ok they win also , but same happened in hockey as well. Sometimes we won and sometime we loose. On the other hand at least our hockey history is strong; Pakistan is four time world champion and four time olympic champion in hockey and similarly India has won olympic hockey 4,5 times as well.
I would say it is just poor marketing strategy of IHF and AHF , due to which this glorious game of hockey is being neglected.Similarly in our subcontinent , it is just internal politics due to which we "hockey lovers" always suffer...either sometimes by hearing news of loosing against Japan or sometimes sitting in front of our TV sets in a hope to see any single hockey match "Live " or "Recorded".
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