Thursday, August 20, 2009

Hockey trials for regional teams begin

The trials to select regional teams for PHF Junior Under-18 Super Hockey League started in Karachi, Larkana, Quetta, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan and Islamabad on Tuesday. “The trials for picking up players for Lahore Badshahs will start on Wednesday (today) here at the National Hockey Stadium at 5:00pm,” said a spokesman for the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF). He said players born after January 1991 were eligible to take part in the trials. “Players from Lahore, Sahiwal, Okara, Kasur, Nankana and Sheikhupura will appear in the trials at Lahore,” the spokesman added. Team manager Khalid Rasool and coaches Anjum Saeed, Muhammad Sarwar, Muhammad Rasheed and Shahid Aslam will observe the trials. The Junior Super Hockey League will be played under floodlights from September 1-18 at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium in Karachi. The event will be played under a new format: there will be three halves each of 25 minutes in every match while prize money of Rs 2 million will be
distributed among notable teams and players of the league.
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