Harmanpreet Singh Indian hockey player Biography : Photos ,latest news,career!
Harmanpreet Singh Indian Hockey Player
Harmanpreet Singh is a Indian field hockey player who plays as defender cum penalty corner specialist.He was born on 6th January 1996 at Jandiala Guru township of Amritsar( Eastern Punjab). Harmanpreet was born to a family where farming was their main occupation. In fact Harmanpreet would be on his father's tractor whenever he is off from his school and during his holidays he would support his family in farming.There started this rising junior star's strength and endurance .The tractor gears give real hard time to people who have good experience driving even , but his father recalls Harmanpreet was so comfortable even in his early days .Any father who was into farming would beat hard their son to not don the farming role again , but in Harmanpreet's case his father encouraged whatsoever his wish was.The Punjab kid never knew he would come this far from his town to fly all around the world.
Harmanpreet Singh into Hockey
Harmanpreet singh started playing hockey at the age of 10 .Soon as he started playing hockey , he got so addicted that everyday while going to school he started taking his hockey stick with his school bags and lunch box.He remember's, sometime's he would even forget his school bag but could never miss his hockey stick.He then asked his father if he could pursue his career in hockey and join in a good hockey academy in Jalandhar. Even then his father just let Harmanpreet to his desires and he went for the famous hockey academy which included the likes of Jugraj Singh , Tejveer Singh as the trainers.He then attended the selection trials and successfully joined the Surjeet Academy in Jalandhar.He is currently pursuing his graduation in DAV college , Jalandhar.
Harmanpreet Hockey Career
Harmanpreet started his career as a forward .Although he din't have a particular position since he would play all around the field from defense to attack.He was a complete package .Then when he was first tested to drag flicking , everyone in the training ground got amazed by his power and agility.Although he had the power he had the natural grace for an dragflicker.After seeing his strong body and power , he then was trained to be a tactical defender . Harmanpreet turned out to be a perfect defender who could dribble across the ground with so much comfort.Normally defender's would tackle well , be strong and firm but in Harmanpreet's case he turned into a clever defender with too much of stick skills .
Harmanpreet Singh International Career
Harmanpreet singh first came in limelight during his junior national camps and tournament for his out rate performance both as a defender and a dragflicker. He then moved into the junior Indian team with so much by his consistent form and natural fitness. He wore his first national jersey during the Sultan Johar cup in Malaysia in 2014.He did made some stupendous performance against countries like Australia,England,Malaysia, which paved way for India to lift the trophy as well the player of the tournament.After his consistent performance in his junior circuit as well in domestic league he made himself a prominent member of the Indian colts team. After some time the ace young drag flicker was bought by Dabang Mumbai for $51000 in the Hockey India League which had foreign stars like Florian Fuchs,Kieran Govers,Jeremy Hayward and so on .Also he scored 5 goals in his first edition with Mumbai Dabangs which made the Dabang's to retain him in their squad for 2016 edition .Also he won the Ponty Chadha award for the most promising player of the tournament in 2015.
Also Harmanpreet was the major star performed with the indian colt's team captain Harjeet . Harmanpreet made India once again proud by clinching the Junior men's Asia cup 2015 .Where he stole the show by knocking 15 goals into the net which indeed proved he is a real rising star and made feel that he could be a major inclusion in the Men's National team for the 2016 Rio Olympics.Then his skills proved to be the talk of the 2016 HIL edition where he gave some ravishing performances which was well noted by the foreign players.Even Jamie Dwayer the Aussie legend started appreciating his bold performance in the tournament.He along with Harjeet was selected for the Sultan Azlanshah cup 2016 to give a test in the senior category where Harmanpreet proved himself once again by scoring his maiden goal in his debut match .Also his moves across the line was real noteworthy for his experience.
Harmanpreet Singh ..........!
Harmanpreet singh in recent days has a lot of fan following because of his young age also for the background he has come from.People in his village are following his footsteps , where in particular a little boy wishes to meet him everytime he is back from his busy International schedule . .If all other player's practice two sessions , Harmanpreet is training hard with a third successive session.Harmanpreet singh is getting all the rewards for his hardworks in the recent past , he is one valuable asset that Indian hockey team could bank on anytime,he can be the one for the future.Although future is really far , he is currently in the Olympic camp for Rio '16 .His only dream to play for team India in Olympics and win a gold medal.Many people are really eager to see him donning the blue jersey again for the senior team in Rio ' 16. Let us all hope for the best , team Indian Hockey news wishes all the very best for Harmanpreet Singh in the coming years !
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