The Indian junior men's hockey team registered a comprehensive 3-1 win over Australia in their second match in the Four-Nation Tournament in Berlin on Sunday.
Motivated India eye German scalp to script another historic chapter in Olympic men's hockey
FIH Men's World Cup: India beat Switzerland 5-0 to qualify for quarterfinals
Skipper Harmanpreet Singh and Sukhjeet Singh scored a brace each to hand India a 5-3 victory over World champions Germany in the second hockey Test, but the hosts lost the two-match series via shoot-out at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, in Delhi, on Thursday.
Top-ranked Netherlands reached the men's hockey final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday with a much more comfortable 4-0 win over Spain than in the pool stage
Junior Women's World Cup Hockey: India blank Ireland 4-0
India will have only 15 players available for the semi-final against Germany, which is a big set back for the eight-time Olympic champions.
Lose to title holders Germany 1-5 in semifinals
India will fight for every point in the European leg of the FIH Pro League to fulfil their twin goals of clinching the title and also securing qualification for next year's World Cup, said Hardik Singh.
Germany, however, regained their lead in the blink of an eye as the ball again got the better of Pathak after it came off Prinz's stick.
The Indian Women's Hockey Team lost 1-4 to Germany in the first of the two matches against the hosts played here at Wiesbaden on Tuesday.
In the fourth quarter, the Indian team came out with a well-structured plan. They remained determined to open their account and switched their style of play to a counter-attacking strategy.
'I just want my players to play our game, we can't copy-paste. We Indians have our own flavour, and we just need to play our game.'
Defending champions Belgium found the equaliser with six minutes left in the match to play out a thrilling 2-2 draw against Germany and keep themselves in the hunt for a direct quarter-final berth in the FIH Men's World Cup, in Bhubaneswar, on Tuesday.
India's women's hockey team, led by captain Salima Tete, is confident of an improved performance in the upcoming Bhubaneswar leg of the FIH Pro League.
'I am very happy with the squad and the way they are playing at this moment.'
Star drag-flicker Deepika scored the winning goal from a penalty corner in the 12th minute to give India a crucial 1-0 victory over Germany in a return-leg women's FIH Pro League match. The win came after India's 0-4 loss against the same opponents on Friday.
Fighting India beat Belgium in shoot-out to enter FIH Jr WC semifinals
Sreejesh accepted that there are a few grey areas which came to light during the recent runners-up finish at the Sultan of Johor Cup in Malaysia.
March 15, 2025, Saturday, marks the 50th anniversary of India's landmark victory over Pakistan in the final of the 1975 hockey World Cup.
Rajinder made his senior debut in October last year during a two-match series against Germany, where he shone bright and eight months later, he became a key member of the Indian senior team.
Indian women's hockey team coach Sjoerd Marijne was livid after the 1-4 defeat to Great Britain at the Olympics, saying 'individual performances just weren't good enough'.
Germany ended Belgium's dominance in global hockey in the last five years after yet another stunning comeback from two-goal deficit to beat the defending champions in the penalty shoot-out to win the FIH Hockey Men's World Cup for a third time, in Bhubaneswar, on Sunday.
Germany struck twice with two minutes left in the match to wipe out a two-goal deficit and then prevailed over England in the penalty shoot-out to make a dramatic entry into the semi-finals of the Men's Hockey World Cup, in Bhubaneswar, on Wednesday.
Mandeep Singh scored a brilliant hat-trick as India pulled off a sensational come-from-behind 5-4 victory over Olympic champions Germany in a fiercely-contested 5th to 8th places classification match in the Hero Hockey World League Finals in Delhi on Friday.
Veteran captain Lee Nam Yong, 39, was also among the scorers as he struck the equalising goal in the 56th minute while Kim Sunghyun (18th) and Jeong Junwoo (20th) scored the other goals for the South Koreans in the regulation time.
India eye Paris revenge against Germany in Test series as international hockey returns to Delhi
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The Netherlands beat Germany 3-1 in a shoot-out after a 1-1 draw to win the gold medal in men's hockey at the Paris Olympics on Thursday with Duco Telgenkamp firing home the final penalty shot past goalkeeper Jean-Paul Danneberg.
After the 1-5 drubbing from world No. 1 the Netherlands, the Indians lifted their game but it was not enough to get past world No. 3 and Rio Games bronze-medallists Germany in their second Pool A match at the Oi Hockey stadium.
Hockey India on Thursday announced a cash prize of Rs 15 lakh each for the players and Rs 7.5 lakh each for the support staff of the national men's team that won a second consecutive bronze medal at the Olympic Games.
The Indian men's hockey team beat Ireland despite a few defense lapses to more or less secure its passage into the quarter-finals of the Paris Olympics.
German hockey captain Moritz Furste knows a thing or two about consistency and he feels the ability to deliver even performances in a series of games is the "little missing piece" in India's admirable resurgence in the last one decade.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni graced the FIH Women's Olympic Qualifiers semifinal between India and Germany in Ranchi.
India's chief coach Craig Fulton lamented that they lacked firepower up front and their mock penalty corner drills failed to deliver as they suffered a 0-2 defeat to world champions Germany
Defending champions India's dream of a second consecutive FIH Junior Men's Hockey World Cup title was shattered after a 2-4 defeat to six-time winners Germany in the semi-finals, in Bhubaneswar, on Friday. The Germans will take on Argentina in the final.
Ace drag-flicker Gonzalo Peillat struck a second-half hat-trick as Germany made a sensational comeback after being two goals down to beat Australia 4-3 and enter the men's hockey World Cup final for the fifth time, in Bhubaneswar, on Friday.
India clinched a second successive Olympic bronze medal at the Games for the first time in 52 years with a 2-1 triumph over Spain in the third position playoff on Thursday.
Eight-time champions India defeated Germany 5-4 in a thrilling men's hockey bronze medal play-off to win an Olympic medal at the Tokyo Games after 41 years, on Thursday.
India's hockey team skipper Harmanpreet Singh and veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh expressed disappointment at not being able to realise their goal of winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics, but said a bronze will be at least better than returning home empty-handed.
