Having performed an important position in India’s silver medal-winning feat on the Commonwealth Video games, nationwide hockey workforce ahead Gurjant Singh is now seeking to make an at subsequent yr’s FIH World Cup.
“I’m glad that I used to be a part of the silver medal-winning workforce at CWG. It is an enormous honour for me to be an Olympic and CWG medal winner,” Gurjant, who was a part of the Olympic bronze medal successful workforce in Tokyo, stated in a launch issued by Hockey India.
“Nonetheless, I’ve famous down the factors that I want to enhance on and I’m decided to make an excellent greater affect in tournaments such because the FIH Odisha Hockey Males’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.”
India are set to host the boys’s hockey World Cup for the second consecutive time collectively in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from January 13 to 29 subsequent yr and Gurjant hopes to get a possibility of enjoying in entrance of the house crowd.
“Taking part in within the World Cup is each hockey participant’s dream. And I actually hope I will probably be given the chance of enjoying the match at our residence floor.
“There may be all the time a terrific buzz and fanfare in Odisha and I’m certain that the followers’ assist will inspire us to play at our greatest.”
The 27-year-old stated the Indian workforce’s fast focus is the FIH Hockey Professional League starting subsequent month.
“We’re working very arduous to place up present on the FIH Hockey Professional League. A great efficiency there’ll give us an enormous confidence increase earlier than the all-important World Cup in Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.
“We’re trying ahead to the problem and are decided to maintain getting higher as a facet.”
India will face Spain and New Zealand within the FIH Professional League in Odisha from October 28.