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Field Hockey Sports |
Field hockey, commonly known as hockey, is a popular sport
for men and women in many countries. It is played in open field.
Two opposing teams try to drive the ball into the opponents' net
with the help of curved sticks.
The team putting the ball in opponents' net maximum scores the
most.
DO YOU KNOW
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Hockey is the national game
of India and Pakistan |
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Indian
and Pakistani national teams dominated men's hockey until the
early 1980s. |
India
and Pakistan won four of the first five Hockey World Cups. |
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After
1980, Netherlands, Germany and Australia gained importance. |
Other
strong hockey playing nations are Spain, Argentina and South
Korea. |
HISTORY OF FIELD HOCKEY
- It is not known when and where hockey began.
- Historical records show that hockey type game was played in
various antique civilizations.
- 4,000-year-old drawings found in the Beni-Hasen tombs, in the
Nile Valley (Egypt) depicted men playing this sport.
- Some other traces show that the Arabs, the Persians, the
Romans (a version called paganica) , the Ethiopians and the
Aztecs were playing a variation of hockey.
- The first ever evidence of a a team sport was found on bases
of statues, which were part of the wall built by Themistocles in
478 B.C.
- The European settlers in Argentina in the 16th century
described a somewhat hockey-like game of the Araucaño
Indians known as cheuca or 'the twisted one' from the twisted
end of the stick used by players.
- In the Middle Ages, games like hockey were played throughout
Europe. It was known as cambuca (or comocke or cammock; compare
modern camogie) in England, shinty in Scotland, jeu de mail in
France, and het kolven in The Netherlands.
- Modern hockey was developed in the British Isles. It became
firmly established by the first half of the 19th century.
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