Hockey World Cup – Germany
I have been a very serious Hockey fan and generally follow all the matches whenever Pakistan has played around the world. This sport was once considered to have an avid fan base almost along the lines of cricket, but with an inconsistent performance of the past few years, people have lost touch of this sport. Just recently the World Cup of Hockey 2006 started yesterday in Germany and it seems that no one in Pakistan noticed the event as rightly highlighted by Saadia Khan in her guest post on All Things Pakistan – Hockey World Cup: Attention Deficit. Come on Pakistan wake up and support your team lets get the moral spirits high and pray for a win.
Today in Pakistan’s first match of the tournament against Japan, Pakistan was easily able to trounce Japan with an easy 4-0 victory [Sohail Abbas 9' (PC) & 64' (PC), Rehan Butt 12' & Shakeel Abbasi 68']. Good to see a solid start to their adventures but lets hope the players keep performing like a unit as the next match tomorrow against New Zealand.
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well i dont think anyone cares about hockey. they are too obssessed with cricket. our people tend to follow a sport only when the whole world is watching. ie. fifa world cup. thats when everyone starts playing football. funny how they forget about football once the world cup is over. cricket is not my cup of tea but then we should support our teams coz they represent us. shame on us. tsk tsk. i wish we had some tennis players to watch out for but sadly not.
I, for one, love watching hockey still! But the stupid media guys are doing nothing to promote the WC! Sad!
This may be a case where the horse and the cart have to go together. There IS greater interest in cricket today and there IS less interest in hockey than their used to be. Part of it is advertising and money. When there was about equal money in the two there was also about equal interest. Now there is HUGE money in cricket, very little in hockey. This is where the role of government comes in. Part of what government has to do is to ‘make up’ the monetary deficit by investing MORE in sports where there is less commercial investment (e.g., hockey, football, wrestling, boxing, etc.) and then let the market do its magic for the others.