Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 30 (ANI): The Indian Women’s Hockey Team left for Hangzhou, China, on Saturday because the squad gears up for the upcoming Women’s Asia Cup 2025.
The 20-member workforce is being led by Captain Salima Tete, who goals to win the match to safe India’s spot within the FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup 2026 subsequent yr, in accordance with a launch from Hockey India.
Talking concerning the upcoming competitors, Salima mentioned, ‘This match is a very good alternative for us to safe our spot for the FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup subsequent yr, and we’re specializing in that. Our first precedence at current is to high our Pool and attain the Super Fours. From there, we are going to take every recreation because it comes and make our means in the direction of the trophy,’ as quoted from a launch by Hockey India.
India has been drawn in Pool B and is scheduled to face Japan, Thailand, and Singapore within the group stage. They will kick off their marketing campaign towards Thailand on September 5, adopted by a conflict towards Japan on September 6, and can then play their last pool-stage match towards Singapore on September 8.
India has received the Women’s Asia Cup twice, first in 2004 and in 2017. In the final version of the occasion, India completed third within the match.
Meanwhile, the Indian Men’s Hockey Team opened their marketing campaign within the Men’s Asia Cup 2025 with a 4-3 win towards China on the Rajgir Hockey Stadium in Bihar’s Rajgir on Friday.
For India, it was captain Harmanpreet Singh (20′, 33′, 47′) who put in a unbelievable efficiency, as he scored a hat-trick, and Jugraj Singh (18′) was India’s second scorer, China acquired their targets from Shihao Du (12′), Benhai Chen (35′), Jiesheng Gao (41′). (ANI)