September 03
The Indian Men’s Hockey Team will play New Zealand and Spain in their FIH Hockey Pro League 2022/23 games from October 28 to November 6.
Surender Kumar has played in 165 games, and he was on the team that won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. He hopes to make a big difference again in the next round of games.
Surinder said, “Going forward, we are now focusing on the games of the 2022-23 FIH Hockey Pro League with New Zealand and Spain. We have to work hard and correct our mistakes in the camp now so that the mistakes don’t happen again.”
“The team and the coaches will sit down in the camp together and analyze things with videos and break it down as we look to improve on our plans’, he added.
Reflecting on the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Indian defender Surender Kumar said, “We played well in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games overall, and it’s just that looking back I feel it would have been nicer if we could have taken our chances in the final then we could have made a comeback.”
The Indian Men’s Hockey Team played Australia in the final in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and were handed a 0-7 defeat in the Gold medal game. But now that the said chapter is in the past, Surender and Co are keen to dot the i’s and cross the t’s before they don the blue jersey again.
“We made some mistakes in the final against Australia and we could not execute the plans we had properly. Now in this camp, we will focus on those mistakes from the final and look to work on them so that we don’t make the same errors going forward.”
