~ A complete of 28 groups will vie for the highest honours in the 11-day match ~
New Delhi, seventeenth May 2023: The prestigious 13th Hockey India Sub Junior Men National Championship 2023 is set to get underway in Rourkela, Odisha from Thursday, 18th May 2023. With all matches taking place on the newly constructed world-class Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, the match gives a chance for brilliant younger gamers from throughout India to compete at a world-class stadium and achieve expertise from it. The 11-day match will characteristic 28 groups competing for the distinguished title, with the ultimate scheduled for twenty eighth May 2023.
he taking part groups are divided into eight swimming pools. Teams in Pool A are Uttar Pradesh Hockey, Hockey Karnataka and Kerala Hockey. Pool B consists of three groups – Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Bengal & Hockey Himachal. In Pool C, Hockey Association of Odisha, Hockey Uttarakhand and Hockey Maharashtra will compete with one another whereas Pool D consists of Hockey Haryana, Goans Hockey and Chhattisgarh Hockey.
Hockey Punjab, Delhi Hockey, Assam Hockey and Tripura Hockey have been slotted in Pool E. In Pool F, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Hockey, Hockey Andhra Pradesh, Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu and Le Puducherry Hockey will compete with one another. Hockey Bihar, Hockey Madhya Pradesh, Hockey Mizoram and Telangana Hockey are slotted in Pool G and whereas Hockey Chandigarh, Hockey Arunachal, Hockey Gujarat and Hockey Rajasthan will battle out in Pool H.
Uttar Pradesh Hockey received the earlier version of the match and talking about their possibilities of defending the title, Coach Vikas Pal stated, “The team is working really hard in the practice camp and preparations are going really well. We are in even better form than the previous year and we are confident that we’ll be able to finish with a Gold Medal on the podium once again.”
Hockey Jharkhand completed as runners-up in the earlier version and can enter the match hoping to go all the best way this time. Manish Kumar, Hockey Jharkhand Coach, acknowledged, “We missed out on finishing the tournament with a Gold medal by the tiniest of margins against Uttar Pradesh Hockey last year. This year, our preparations have been better, and the team is in great physical condition; we are now fully prepared to compete for the Gold Medal at the tournament, and we are confident that we will finish first.”
Hockey Association of Odisha received the Bronze medal in the course of the earlier version of the match. Speaking about their plans for the 13th version of the distinguished match, Hockey Association of Odisha’s Coach, Lakshminarayna, acknowledged, “We had our first camp in Bhubaneswar and now we are here in Rourkela for the past week. The team is preparing well, and we are hoping to change the colour of our medal from last year.”
When requested about taking part in in the newly constructed Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium, he stated, “I believe the playing conditions here in Rourkela will benefit us because we have played in Odisha more than any other team. The stadium is very nice and huge, with world-class infrastructure for the players. I am confident that playing on our home turf will benefit us.”
After seven days of intense pool video games, the Quarter-Finals will start on twenty fifth May 2023, with the Semi-Finals scheduled to be performed on twenty seventh May. The Final and the third/4th place matches will take place on twenty eighth May.
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