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Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh (born 8 May 1988) is an Indian field hockey coach and former player. He was the captain of the national team and played as a goalkeeper. [2] Since 2024, he is the head coach of the India men's national U-21 team. He is regarded as one of the best goal keepers in the history of field hockey. [3]
Similar to a penalty shot in ice hockey, the attacker gets a chance to run with the ball in a one-on-one situation against the goalkeeper. [4] The attacker starts on the 23-metre line with the ball and the goalkeeper starts on the goal line. When the whistle is blown, both can move and the attacker has 8 seconds to score a goal. [5]
Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper. Teams must move a hockey ball around a field by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal .
To date, eleven players representing India and ten from Netherlands and Pakistan each have scored 100 or more international goals, the most of any country. The Asian Hockey Federation and European Hockey Federation has the highest number of players who have scored 100 goals in their international career, with 23 players from AHF and 22 from EHF ...
A field hockey goalkeeper. In field hockey, the goalkeeper generally wears extensive protective equipment including helmet, face and neck guards, chest and leg padding, arm or elbow protectors, specific gloves (the left glove is designed purely to block the ball, the right glove also has this function but in addition is designed to permit the ...
USA Field Hockey is the national governing body for field hockey in the United States. USA Field Hockey is a member organization of the United States Olympic Committee and the International Hockey Federation. The USA Field Hockey Association is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was founded in 1922. [1] The organization is ...
David Staniforth (born 5 April 1976 in Durban) is a field hockey goalkeeper from South Africa, who was a member of the national squad that finished tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [1] The goalie plays for a provincial team called KwaZulu Natal Raiders. Staniforth was named South African Hockey's Male Personality of the Year for 2002.
A penalty stroke consisting of a single stroke by an attacker against the goalkeeper from the penalty spot. In field hockey, a penalty stroke, sometimes known as a penalty flick, is the most severe penalty given. It is predominantly awarded when a foul has prevented a certain goal from being scored or for a deliberate infringement by a defender ...