After a valiant display against the Belgians, the Indian junior team has a bigger task at hand as they take on Germany in the semifinals of the junior hockey World Cup at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Friday.
When they lost to France in their opener, most had expected that India wouldn’t be able to go too far in the tournament. But the players as well as men’s chief coach Graham Reid remained confident that they would beat Belgium in the quarterfinals.
And that was exactly the case as they put on a resilient show against a team that didn’t give up on trying to score throughout the match. The Belgium players kept coming down the left, right and centre but the Indian defence were up to it.
India had failed to register a clean sheet in their group games but they did earn one on the day it mattered. Belgium had as many 11 shots on goal, 24 circle entries and three penalty corners. Despite all the domination, India held on.
This story is from the December 03, 2021 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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