IHF Dissolved

The most awaited news from Indian Hockey came yesterday when Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has sacked Mr. K. P. S. Gill and dissolved the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). It has ended a black era of 14 years of Mr. Gill in Indian hockey. It was a long awaited decision, at least from when Indian hockey team has failed to even qualify for Olympic this year. Followed by a bribery scandal involving K Jothikumaran, an IHF secretary. This is the first time when Indian team will not participate in Olympics since they began playing in 1928.

In this so called "youngistan" era many of us don't know what is our national sport. For them I must iterate that it is hockey, not cricket. From last 14 years Mr. Gill has put all his efforts to throw Indian hockey to abysmal depth. But the fact is that only Gill is not responsible for current state of hockey in India. IOA, red tapism, lack of funds to hockey, not enough facilities are some of them. But there should be someone who should take responsibility of all this, and in my perspective it is always the head the organization. But the funniest part of the story is Gill is still not ready to accept that Indian hockey is in crisis. Anyways IOA has placed a five member committee consisting of old Olympic players. Australian Ric Charlesworth will advise them.

But will it make any difference? Will it give a new heights to Indian hockey? Will it increase the fan following of hockey? Yes, I think it will make a huge difference to Indian hockey. Here are the reasons why. First point is Indian hockey is at its bottom, whatever will happen from here will be good. The second point is that if the leaders of any organization want to do something only then the lesson will reach to other stake holders of an organization. In this case hopefully they will do. I am looking them as five pandavas who will win the battle of kurushetra of'course with the help of Krishna (in this case Australian though).

So, with this this optimistic approach I must say Good Luck to new leaders of the IHF. Hope they will do something for Indian hockey but not only for their own.

PS: The idea behind recently started ICL, IPL is always compared by European Football clubs, but we can also compare it with long back started Premier Hockey League (PHL).