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One Day and Two
Golds:
Last
times Asian Games at Guangzhou 2010 were special for Pakistan as we celebrated
the dual triumph and victory by winning two Gold Medals in one day in men field
hockey and squash finals and thus making a memorable day in the country's
sporting history.
Field
Hockey is national sports of Pakistan, and is very popular in nationwide along
with the obvious South Asian craze cricket. Pakistan Field Hockey team has been
the most successful team with four time world champions and two times runners
up. Similarly the winning history of Pakistan Men Field Hockey team is also a
pride of our nation by having the unbeaten record of eight Gold Medals in in
1958, 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1990 and 2010 with 2 silver and 3 bronze as
well.
Asian
Games 2010 proved to be very memorable for Pakistan and Pakistan Field Hockey
team as we won the Gold of Asian Games after the long drought of 2 decades.
Unfortunately Pakistani Field Hockey Team had been struggling in late nineties
and the early twenties, due to some lack of resources and non-serious behavior
from Governmental authorities but still natural talent of Pakistan kept on
brings some titles for the country but Gold for a big event such as Asian Games
was the real expectation of the whole nation. We all wanted to see Pakistani
team to achieve the same fame and glory when it was the fear for all the
nations and remained world champions even for two continuous times of 1978 and
1982. Pakistani team remained full of world class players like Shabaz Ahmed Sr.
known to be the Maradona of Hockey, Shanzan Sheikh, one of the brilliant
goalkeepers of hockey history Shahid Ali Khan also known to be the hero of New
Dehli World Cup, Sameeullah “the flying Horse” and from recent Sohail Abbas
with ever highest goals in field hockey 348 till June 2013.
In
the Asian Games 2010 Final, Pakistan’s two bright stars of Field Hockey Sohail
Abbas and Rehan Butt scored historical goals to the Gold and winning the final
beating a tough team of Malaysia by 2-0.
The whole country celebrated this well awaited welcoming win by
Pakistan. It was a moment of celebration and pride for whole nation.
With
no doubt Pakistan is the first greatest ever squash-playing nation of all time,
and credit for this goes to the Khan dynasty. Hashim Khan who was the founder
of Pakistan Squash won 7 titles in 8 years of
British Open. Jahangir Khan the King of Squash, made not a single
historical unbeaten record but many of these like he won 6 times the World
Championships and British Open 10 consecutive times then won 555 matches
consecutively making the longest winning streak in squash history, but also one
of the longest unbeaten runs by any athlete in top-level professional sports.
Along with Jahangir Khan, Jansher Khan was the new King of Squash who surpassed
Jahangir Khan's record of five successive victories in the world open
championship. He climaxed the 1996 season by winning the 20th edition of the
World Open contest for the eight time which record is likely to last a long
time. Pakistan struggled after Jansher Khan’s retirement, so since 1998,
Pakistan had been going through the dark age of its squash. No Pakistani since
then reached the final of either the British or World Open. But then Asian Games
2010 the same Gold Medal Day for Men Field Hockey brought the long drought of
Pakistan Squash when Pakistan's top-ranked squash pair of Aamir Atlas Khan and
Farhan Mehboob snatched the worth a wait gold for their country with splendid
and superb win over Malaysia's Ong Beng Hee and Mohammad Azlan Iskandar. This
victory was the sign of revival of the glory of squash we had in the past.
Pakistan was known by these sports and so we had to achieve the lost name back.
And Pakistan’s duo did it with a great win in the end.
Pakistan’s
whole nation celebrated the two very well needed and well deserving gold medals
in same day of the Asian Games 2010. It was a historical day of smiles and
pride for the whole nation.
Pakistan
hope to prove his huge natural talent in coming Asian Games 2014 going to be
held in Incheon, South Korea in September and October of this year. Being
current champions of Field Hockey, Squash, Women’s Cricket, Pakistan is looking
forward not only to defend these titles but also to conquer the arena for many
more like Men’s Cricket, Tennis, Kabadi, etc. All the best Pakistan with
uncountable sincere prayers and wishes
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