1st Asian Championship Hockey, Men

In this world human being attracts and choose career as per his/her interest and put their best efforts into it so that it give him/her name, fame and above all money. Hockemeny is Indian National sport, but graph of Indian hockey in international arena is sliding downwards from past few years, still time to time Indian hockey shine in few tournaments. From 3rd to 11th September, 2011 Ordos, China host the 1st Asian Championship for Men. India won the inaugural Championship, brief look of all the matches played during tournament’s are –

03 September 2011

Match number 01  Korea v/s Japan      3-2 (2-1)

Match number 02  India v/s  China      5-0 (2-0)

Match number 03  Pak v/s Malaysia    3-2 (2-2)

04 September 2011

Match number 04  Japan v/s India        1-1 (0-1)

Match number 05  Korea v/s Malaysia  4-3 (1-2)

Match number 06  Pak v/s China          4-1 (1-1)

06 September 2011

Match number 07 China v/s Malaysia   2-4 (2-2)

Match number 08 Japan v/s Pakistan     3-1 (1-1) 

Match number 09 India v/s Korea          5-3 (4-2)

07 September 2011

Match number 10 Malaysia v/s India      2-2 (2-1)

Match number 11 China v/s Japan          1-3 (1-1)

Match number 12  Pakistan v/s Korea    3-2 (2-0)

09 September 2011

Match number 13   India v/s Pakistan      2-2 (0-0)

Match number 14   Korea v/s China         1-1 (1-0)

Match number 15   Malaysia v/s Japan     3-2 (0-2)

11 September 2011

Match number 16      Classification(5-6) - Korea v China - 2-1

Match number 17       Bronze Medal (3-4) - Japan v Malaysia - 0-1

Match number 18      Gold Medal (1-2) - Pakistan v India 0-0 (India win 4-2 on penalties)

   Indian hockey team returns victorious, but unfortunately it did not get media coverage, so in India until and unless Indian hockey won the tournament nobody in India was aware that Indian hockey team is playing Asian Championship in China, even when it won the tournament media only flash the news but still it was not their one of the major headline, had it been cricket then it would have been race among channels to cover not only activities on the ground but also off the field. When victorious Indian hockey team landed India then hockey India announced prize of 25,000 rupees to every players but players refuse to accept the prize, then immediately Union Sport Minister Mr. Lalit Makan declared prize of rupees 1.5 lakhs to each player and fifty percent to other assisting staff and coach, also try to clarify that Government of India has distributed Rupees 48.14 crores of rupees to the victorious sports persons barring Cricket, and Government of India has policy to award sports/players on below coded patterns –

• Olympic Games - An individual winning a Gold medal gets Rupees 50 lakhs, and each players will get Rupees 25 lakhs if a team wins Gold medal.
• Commonwealth Games - An individual winning a Gold medal gets Rupees 20 lakhs, and anyone in the team gets Rupees 10 lakhs each. 
• World Championship- The individual Gold medalist gets Rupees 10 lakhs and team individuals get Rupees 5 lakhs when the team wins.
• Asian Championships - An individual Gold medalist gets Rupees 5 lakhs and team individuals get Rupees 1.5 lakhs when the team wins.

     Mr. Lalit Maken said the Indian hockey team has already won Rupees 1.5 lakh each under this scheme. Punjab Government announced prize of Rupees 25 lakhs to the Asian Championship winner team and in the team seven players were from Punjab state. Maharashtra Government announced Rupees 10 lakhs to Yuvraj Valmiki who is from Maharashtra state.

    Hockey India should understand that if players won’t earn hefty money from the game they are playing, then it will distract young aspirants to choose hockey as their career as ultimately its money which is attractive point in anybody’s  career.