Hockey News -
At 2008 Olympic Qualifier, Santiago, Chile

Final - India l Great Britain 0-2 (0-2)
Goal Scored - Barry Middleton 4', Richard Mantell (PC) 10'

3rd place – Russia bt Austria 6-3 (4-1)

5th place - Chile bt Mexico 9-3 (5-2)

Today is a Doomsday for Indian hockey … Our hockey team achieved such a feat that not any other Indian team managed to achieve that in last 80 years … Don’t know whom to blame about this fiasco our team, coach Joaquim Carvalho or KPS Gill and Jothikumaran … In my view all r equally responsible for this state of hockey … FIH appointed Australian Ric Charlesworth to help us out … But our bureaucrats and (importantly) coach Joaquim Carvalho wasn’t ready to accept his help thinking they were having great plan (?) to revive Indian hockey … They even tried and were successful that for important tournaments like this Olympics qualifier and Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament , Ric couldn’t reach.

This was expected result after watching our round-robin matches ... In those matches we showed poor execution of plan (or lack of plan) with stupid mistakes ... But still there was some hope of miracle.

Now usual stuff will begins like resignation of coaches, captain and retirement of some players … But that doesn’t help us until our top hockey brass remain on their position … If we really want to revive hockey and plan for 2012 Olympics then we should start from removing current IHF body and start building young team ( like Malaysia).