{"id":13157,"date":"2023-01-04T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13157"},"modified":"2023-01-04T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:40:51","slug":"three-time-champion-pakistan-to-miss-fih-hockey-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/three-time-champion-pakistan-to-miss-fih-hockey-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-time champion Pakistan to miss FIH Hockey World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan, due to their inability to finish among the top four spots in the Asia Cup, will miss the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Hockey<\/a> (FIH) Men\u2019s Hockey World Cup 2023.<\/p>\n

The four leading Asian hockey-playing nations \u2014 India, Japan, Malaysia, and Korea \u2014 will be seen in action in the 16-team event, starting in Indian cities, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, within nine-day time.<\/p>\n

For the first time, sixteen countries are competing in the Hockey World Cup that earlier was restricted to just 12 countries.<\/p>\n

Yet, three-time world champions Pakistan who are ranked 17th in the world are missing the four-yearly action.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really unfortunate that a country like Pakistan is not part of the 16-team World Cup. We cannot get an easier opportunity of qualifying for the event. It was just a cakewalk, yet we missed it. As a former world champion, I feel really bad and depressed not to see Pakistan as one of the contesting teams in India,\u201d Khawaja Junaid, one of the members of the World Cup 1994 winning team said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am really concerned about the Pakistan hockey players who could have gained necessary exposure by playing against the world\u2019s best teams,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the FIH Men\u2019s World Cup will be hosted by a nation twice in a row as the 2018 edition was held in the state of in India as well. The Indian city also hosted the FIH Hockey Men\u2019s Junior World Cup in 2021 and the FIH Hockey Pro League over the past 4 years, following the FIH Hockey Men\u2019s World Cup in 2018.<\/p>\n

Both Bhubaneswar and Rourkela will host matches on the opening day of the FIH Hockey Men\u2019s World Cup 2023.<\/p>\n

The first match on January 13 will be played in the Kalinga stadium in Bhubaneswar, where 2016 Olympic Gold medalists Argentina will take on reigning African Champions, and victors of the recent inaugural edition of the FIH Hockey Men\u2019s Nations Cup: South Africa.<\/p>\n

This will be followed by more Pool-A action between World No 1 Australia and the rapidly improving French team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan, due to their inability to finish among the top four spots in the Asia Cup, will miss the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Hockey (FIH) Men\u2019s Hockey World Cup 2023. The four leading Asian hockey-playing nations \u2014 India, Japan, Malaysia, and Korea \u2014 will be seen in action in the 16-team event, starting in Indian cities, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6204,2599],"class_list":["post-13157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}