PANAJI
Goans Hockey team are clubbed along with Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Maharashtra and Hockey Gujarat at this year’s Hockey India senior men championship which will take place from 04 to 15 November in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Goans Hockey team are placed in Group G and will start their campaign against Hockey Jharkhand on November 6 at 2 pm, followed by matches on November 8 against Hockey Gujarat also a 2 pm kick-off. The team will complete their league engagements in the four-team group with a match against Hockey Maharashtra November 10 at 2 pm.
Thirty teams from all over India are taking part in the championship.
Goa team is having a dismal record at the national level championship and have collected the wooden spoon having finished last in most of the championship spread across all age groups and in both the men’s and women section as well as the boys’ and girls’ categories.
The men’s senior team have conceded 72 goals in the last three championships and scored 6 in the process in 9 matches.
Besides that, in the National Games 2023 held in Goa, which has a large number of outstation players Goa let in 25 goals and scored 8 in four matches.
In the women’s senior team national championship, the record is no better having let in 43 goals and scored 5 goals in 9 matches.
At the national Games 2023 they scored two goals and had to fetch the goals from the nets on 17 occasions in the four matches.
