The country's renowned Surjit Hockey Society and SurjitHockey Academy jointly celebrated National Sports Day and the birthday of thegreat hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand.
Addressing the players and their parents at a simple butimpressive function held at the local Guru Gobind Singh Stadium today, PunjabChief Hockey Coach Olympian Rajinder Singh (Dronacharya Awardee) highlightedthe history and significance of National Sports Day. He said that the sports are important for the physical andmental health of human beings.
Speaking on this occasion, Iqbal Singh Sandhu, GeneralSecretary, Surjit Hockey Society and Academy while congratulating the playerson National Sports Day and the birthday of the great Indian hockey player MajorDhyan Chand and briefed the sporting achievements of Major Dhyan Chand.
He said that he was part of the three-time Olympic goldmedal winning Indian hockey team at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and MajorDhyan Chand was elected captain of the Indian hockey team.
He further said that Major Dhyan Chand hadscored more than 400 international goals in his career from 1926 to 1948 whilehe had scored nearly 1,000 goals in his entire career. To pay homage to such a great sportsperson,the Government of India decided to celebrate his birthday in 2012 as NationalSports Day, Sandhu added.
On this occasion Chief Coach Hockey (Punjab) OlympianRajinder Singh, General Secretary of Surjit Hockey Society Iqbal Singh Sandhu,Chief PRO Surinder Singh Bhapa, CoachDavinder Singh, Coach Parmjit Kaur, Naresh Kumar, Gurmeet Singh etc. werepresent.