THURSDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2026

Goa Juniors drawn with Hockey Maharashtra, Himachal and Manipur


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Goa junior boys are placed in Group G alongside Hockey Maharashtra, Hockey Himachal and Manipur Hockey for the 14th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2024 which will take place from 9 to 19 Sept in Jalandhar, Punjab.

Goa begin their campaign with a match against Manipur Hockey on September 9 and the following day take on Hockey Himachal and wind up their league engagements with a clash against hockey Maharashtra.

Of the 29 teams taking part, they have been divided into eight groups, with five groups having four teams in the group while the remaining three groups have just three teams.

The state associations taking part are Hockey Madhya Pradesh, Hockey Chandigarh, Hockey Haryana Hockey Association of Odisha, Chhattisgarh Hockey, Uttar Pradesh Hockey, Hockey Rajasthan, Dadra & Nagar Haveli And Daman & Diu Hockey, Hockey Uttarakhand, Le Puducherry Hockey, Hockey Jammu & Kashmir, Assam Hockey, Hockey Arunachal, Hockey Punjab, Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Maharashtra Hockey Karnataka, Hockey Bihar, Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu, Manipur Hockey, Delhi Hockey, Telangana Hockey, Hockey Bengal, Hockey Himachal, Hockey Andhra Pradesh, Hockey Mizoram, Hockey Gujarat, Goans Hockey and Kerala Hockey.

The quarter-finals will take place on September 16, while the semi-finals on September 18 and the final on September 19.

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Goa's athletic coaching setup lacks rural reach

SAG and DYSA train guns on city talents leaving rural youths to fend for themselves

ARMSTRONG VAZ
Published Sep 5, 2024, 1:27 AM IST
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MargaoAthletics they say is the mother of all sports but if you check the number of Goa government coaches engaged in coaching young athletes across the state, the number is not enough to take care of the needs of the state and the focus seems to be more on the city talent while neglecting the rural youths.Talk to any of the Goan Athletic Association officials and they would agree in private that six athletic coaches for the state is too small a number and all of them are…

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