Gollum Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/hockey/top-stories/Hockey-India-offers-financial-help-to-Pakistan-Hockey-Federation/articleshow/46807621.cms Excerpts In a letter to Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary general Rana Mujahid, Hockey India secretary general Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad said HI was "willing to bail out the PHF" so that their players can take part in the Olympic qualifying tournament. "I have gone through press news coverage ... in case you are unable to raise resources for the training of the team for the World League Round 3 to be played in Belgium, which is also an Olympic Qualification tournament for the Pakistan team, we are still willing to approach Government of India or our sponsors and well wishers to bail out the PHF and our neighbour out of this difficult situation, so that we have a healthy competition amongst us in Rio 2016," Mushtaque Ahmad said in the letter. Despite that incident(in Champions Trophy Bhubaneshwar last year), Mushtaque Ahmad said that India cannot "imagine" an Olympic hockey competition without Pakistan. Seeing how cash strapped HI and sports in general is in India should we be doling out charity to Pakistan? We don't have good infrastructure for hockey players in India(very few astro turfs, poor training facilities, underpaid staff/players, not enough high class coaches, poor diet for players), forget other sports which get even lesser attention. I agree that as Afridi said we are 'chote dil' and only Pakistani Muslims are 'bade dil' :giggle: but shouldn't our priority be Indian sports and not Pakistani sports. Especially after what the entire world saw in Bhubaneshwar how much their players hate us, their derogatory language against our culture and religion, #RoIndiaRo etc shouldn't they have the decency to reject any help from their enemies. Really hope our Sports Ministry fires the hell out of HI officials and asks them to end corruption and nepotism in Indian hockey so that we may regain some of our lost glory rather than this dramebaazi. And this gen sec Ahmed needs some talking too, the needs of India far outweigh the needs of his Ummah. Perhaps SRK, who famously loaded KKR with Pakistanis in IPL 1st season can chip in and support his brothers. Or may be some Bollywood intellectuals like Mahesh Bhatt, Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farhan Akhtar, Dia Mirza, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditi Rao Hydari, Zoya Akhtar, Kabir Khan etc can organize a fund raiser hockeython in NDTV to raise money for their beloved green shirts. Rana Ayyub, Prannoy Roy, Rajdeep, Sagarika, Burkha, Mihir can do enough publicity on social media. It's a win win situation for all.
trundlerNO1 Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Idiots why are you financing Pakistan Hockey, screw them.
sensible-indian Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 Why the hate guys? Fair enough if you question the move considering our association is hardly swimming with cash and we don't have good facilities and on top of that, we have nepotism. But why the hate? Yes, in that match Pak hockey players behaved badly but heard the crowd was also abusive towards them. Yes, players should maintain dignity even in such cases which I won't deny. But with all being said, we should move ahead of these things. Didn't our own Kohli show a finger to the Aussie crowd or Raina make the tweet (in both cases, I am sure the crowd played a very big part in riling them up).
BeautifulGame Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 Pakistan Hockey Players Continue To Suffer There seems to be no end to financial problems faced by Pakistan hockey as new reports have emerged that the players and the coaching staff not being paid their dues from past one year. Its not just that but the lack of funds have forced Pakistan hockey team to cancel their tour to South Korea in order to participate in next month's FIH Champions Trophy to be held in Bhubneshwar. Pakistan players have not been paid for a year Cash starved Pakistan Hockey Federation is trying to lure sponsors for the national side but they haven't be able to do so because of poor performance on the pitch. After missing out on hockey World Cup and Commonwealth Games in 2014, Pakistan Hockey had to cancel the trip to South Korea due to VISA and financial issues. Pakistan captain Muhammad Imran raised a question about the players suffering saying for how long the players will struggle financially while representating the country. “Many players have sacrificed their international league contracts to play for Pakistan,” he told reporters after opening day’s trials for the FIH Champions Trophy and South Korea tour. He said he quit the league contract halfway in Hong Kong to come to appear in the national trials and lead the team in next month’s Champions Trophy in India. “I may be losing Rs.1.5 million for leaving three contracts for the sake of the country,” he added. “We are waiting our payments of the central contracts for the past one year. We have families and need money to support them,” the double Olympian full-back said. “If situation doesn’t improve we may stop playing for the country and the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) will be looking for us,” he lamented. Like Imran, Umar Bhutta and some senior and junior players also returned from overseas to appear in the Champions Trophy trials After winning silver medal in Asian Games 2014, the Punjab Government had offered the team Rs. 2 million but the cheque issued to the players also bounced when the players went to the bank to encash it. Pakistan Hockey Federation asked for Rs 500 million from Pakistan government but they are yet to receive any response from the Pakistan sports ministry even after 2 months of asking them the same. PHF secretary general Rana Mujahid Ali said the PHF was anxiously looking towards government funding to raise the funds for the upcoming Champions Trophy. “Besides other affairs, we have to pay players’ long standing dues and award them cash incentives if we want our national sport to keep going,” he added. Mujahid said the PHF badly needed funding for the national senior and junior teams and domestic circuit. He said a request for a grant of Rs.500 million was submitted to the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) and other sports authorities for the release of funds. He said the Pakistan team badly needed international exposure to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro. Former Olympians have now taken charge of the situation and are working towards a solution to resolve the issue and generate some funds for the players so the team can participate in next months Champions Trophy It is quite evident that the future of hockey depends on Asia more importantly, India and its arch rivals Pakistan. After a long fight with dictatorship at the top, Indian hockey is finally getting back on track with victories on and off the pitch. Its time Pakistan joins India in cleaning its house and giving the players, the team management and Pakistan hockey its due, or else the country which came with World Cup and Champions Trophy will struggle to put forward a team for the future tournaments. remember reading this.Government checks bouncing :cantstop: As for the OP its retarted.We dont have enough infrastructure facilities and trying to sponser Pakistan :facepalm: Instead of running after PR these idiots should try increase the no of artificial turfs in domestic levels
Kalia_Test Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 Nothing wrong in helping poor nations like Somalia and Pakistan but we should have tight controls to ensure the money is not used to finance terrorism.
Gollum Posted April 5, 2015 Author Posted April 5, 2015 Beggars... Beggars everywhere... They aren't beggars, we are dramebaaz. What is the need for HI to make such statements when Indian hockey is in such a big mess financially?
Roshanrocks Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 Let them suffer One one hand we donot let their players play IPL, on the other hand we want to finance their hockey team? WHat fecking hypocracy is this? :hitler:
achilles Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 What a joke Pakistan is! After all the nanga-naach they did in my country, insulted my people and disrespected my nation, we decide to help them. Probably, Pakistani's need to a bit garceful to their Father, India.
Stuge Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 Really ? First provide our players with Astro turf ,facilities etc to improve their game.This drama of supporting padosis doesn't make any sense imo.
someone Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 It's a political decision which can only be made by our government. So what right does our secretary general for Hockey has to talk about it? Is he in government?
Invasion 550 Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 Good step by india to move forward the hand of friendship after they grudginly got three pakistani players removed from the champions trophy final. Maybe its a little sorry. :icflove:
gs Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 Is hockey India awash with money to fund other countries?!?! Fix your effin house first before volunteering to fix others. Also, enough of this "jeet lo dil" "choos lo land" spirit. Who knows where the money would end up.
Dark Warrior Posted April 7, 2015 Posted April 7, 2015 They aren't beggars' date=' we are dramebaaz. What is the need for HI to make such statements when Indian hockey is in such a big mess financially?[/quote'] It's fun calling them beggers, which they actually are. :--D
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