Chinglensana Singh Indian Hockey Player: The Life tale

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Chinglensana Singh Indian Hockey Player: The Life tale

Kangujam Chinglensana Singh is an India professional Hockey player born on 2nd December 1991 from Manipur. This 21 year old plays at the halfback position for the National team. In his career, he has played for the Western railways, the Mumbai magicians club from 2013-2014, the Dabang Mumbai team from 2015-2016, he was bought by the club for 22 thousand USD.  Chinglensana has been successfully playing for the Indian Team since 2011.

He made his international debut in 2011 when India played against Belgium where they drew 3-3 and Chinglensana was one of the scorers.

Chinglensana's venture to Hockey

Chinglensana earlier started playing in 2001 for a local club MIERRA and then took part in the State Level tournament at the Junior level . He then represented Manipur in the under 14 inter school Hockey tournament in Delhi in 2006 where he performed quite well. He was subsequently coached at the Punjab National Bank Academy. In a year’s time, he started hard training under Brojen Singh, a former Indian player. He was his mentor and support through all Chinglensana’s tiffs and struggles. Broken was the one who provided him with sticks, shoes, shorts and t-shirts. Under his guidance, Chinglensana played for Assam at the 2009 National Games in Guwhati. 

This was a turning point in his career. As said by him,”I turned out for Assam in the 2009 National Games as my home state Manipur did not qualify on that occasion. Soon, I got an offer to play in the Mumbai Hockey League for Customs. My stint in the Mumbai Hockey League helped me to land a job in Western Railway. I represented Railways in the 2010 Surjit Singh Hockey Tournament, where I was declared the best player of the tournament.”

This young lad mastered his skills at various positions, being able to play at forward, midfield as well as in defense. His family was also a very big support to him throughout his journey.

Chinglensana's journey towards success:

In 2012, Chinglensana played for the Indian Team in the 2nd Asian Champions Trophy in Doha. He gave a stellar performance against Japan where India scored 3-1. In 2013, he actively participated in the Asian Cup in Ipoh. He was very hard working and strives towards excellence in whatever small way he could. He was a prominent player in the 2014, Commonwealth Games held at Gaslow.

In 2015, when the Indian Men’s Hockey team’s performance was rated based on the Hockey World league semi-finals, Chinglensana was rated 6.5 due to him being efficient in his forward runs, making goal scoring opportunities for the other forwards. He put in a lot of effort to inculcate the 10-on-10 defending strategy proposed by Paul Van Ass the coach. During August in the same year, India beat France by 2-0 in the Opening Euro tour wherein one of the goals was from Chinglensana Singh in the 18th minute. 

There definitely were downplays like in the Hero Hockey World League Finals where India lost to Netherlands by 3-1 but Chinglensana was successful in aiding SV Sunil to score the solo goal in the event. He never backed down and continues to press forward for excellence. In 2015, he was a member of the Indian Team in the Hockey World League at Raipur. In 2016, around the time of June, Indian acquired victory against South Korea 2-1 in the Hockey Champions Trophy, where Chinglensana was instrumental in enabling the team to perform well. His rigorous training and dedication is showing results as he continues to excel on the field. Remembering his roots and staying humble yet being a key member of the Indian Team.