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Should we care? The game is commercially dead worldwide and commercial efforts like PHL has turned out into a joke. Hockey just isn't an entertaining sport. Now, name cricket as our national game and dump hockey. There is no reason is backing a sport with no audience and financial. The only reason India still backs hockey is that, hockey is one of the very few realistic chances for us to get an olympic medal.
As for India not qualifying, two morons are responsible. One is Mr. Gill. He ruined the team from top ten material to top twenty stuff, saying that he is gonna make them champions. Indian hockey was doomed when he showed the doors for veterans and brought in novices. That retarded security-guy shooting our once best striker,Sandeep Singh on a train didn't help either. Same for the "once best penalty-corner taker in the world", Jugraj Singh meeting a car-accident.
Carvalho shouldn't have quit, he actually did a great job since he took over. The problem is, he took over too late. If it was not for him, we'd have drawn 1-1 against Mexico last week.
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