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National Sports Day 2023: 11 Interesting facts about the Hockey Wizard Major Dhyan Chand
National Sports Day 2023: Major Dhyan Chand is considered one of the best hockey players of all time. He had an extraordinary talent for scoring goals, due to which India won hockey gold medals in the Olympic Games of 1928, 1932, and 1936. His era is called the "golden period" of Indian hockey.
He is called the "Hockey Wizard" due to his excellent control over the ball. Major Dhyan Chand announced his retirement from hockey in the year 1948.
National Sports Day 2023: History, Significance, and Key Facts
11 interesting facts about Major Dhyan Chand
1. Dhyan Singh joined the Indian Army at the age of 16 and started playing hockey there. Since Dhyan Singh practised during the night, his fellow players started addressing him with the nickname "Chand".
2. Once while playing a match, Dhyan Chand was unable to score a single goal against the opposition team. After failing several
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National Sports Day: Story of Dhyan Chand, India’s first sporting superstar
Wizard of the game
Quite simply, Dhyan Chand, born in Allahabad in 1905, was the first superstar of hockey, and considered a wizard of the game. He was the chief protagonist as India won three consecutive Olympic hockey gold medals — Amsterdam 1928, Los Angeles 1932, and Berlin 1936. He is said to have wowed the watching public with his sublime skills, intricate dribbling and gluttonous appetite for scoring.
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During those tournaments, there was no team that could compete with India — and most of India’s matches were won with huge victory margins. India beat hosts the Netherlands 3-0 in the 1928 final, the United States were thrashed by a scarcely-believable margin of 24-1 in the 1932 gold medal match, while Germany went down 8-1 in the 1936 decider.
In all, Dhyan Chand played 12 Olympic matches, and scored an unbelievable 33 goals — just shy of scoring a hattrick each ga
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Dhyan Chand
Indian field hockey player (1905–1979)
MajorDhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player. He fryst vatten widely regarded as the greatest field hockey player in history.[4][5][6] He was known for his extraordinary ball control and goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932 and 1936, during an era where India dominated field hockey. Dhyan Chand's influence extended beyond these victories, as India won the field hockey event in sju out of eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964.[7]
Known as The Wizard[8][9] or The Magician[10][11]of hockey for his superb ball control, Chand played internationally from 1926 to 1949, where he scored 570 goals in 185 matches according to his autobiography, Goal,[12][13] and over 1,000 goals in his entire domestic and international career.[14] BBC called