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Sandeep Singh -Indian Professional field hockey player

Sandeep Singh is a legend of Indian hockey and one of its most inspiring captains.

Born on February 27, 1986, in the town of Shahabad in Kurukshetra, Haryana, Sandeep Singh started playing hockey though. His elder brother name was Bikramjeet Singh. He wanted to set himself up and his mother Daljit Kaur assured him that he would achieve it if he took up sports. It was Sandeep Singh’s motivation to play hockey and his talent soon became evident. He made waves in his youth and earned a reputation for his hard-hitting drag flicks, which were later considered one of the best in the world.

Sandeep Singh is a hockey star turned politician, who is known for his outstanding performance in the sport. Singh is the captain of the Indian hockey team and is popularly known as “Flicker Singh” because of his flick and flick technique on the pitch.

After Sandeep Singh worked hard as a player in the Indian hockey team, he entered politics and joined the Bhartiya Janta Party, after which he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Pehowa constituency. Singh was later appointed Haryana Sports Minister after the BJP’s victory in the 2019 elections.

Many records achieved in hockey

Sandeep was at the time the Indian Hockey was a fast track as he was read among the Indian Star drag flickers. But an accident with him almost destroyed his hockey career.

Sandeep Singh was in great form in 2005 and at the same time he made a lot of news in the Junior World Cup and from 2006 he started his preparations for the Senior World Cup in Germany in 2006 but on August 22, 2006, a few days later. before the competition, Sandeep had a serious accident.

Hockey Carrer of Sandeep Singh

Sandeep Singh learned to play hockey from his elder brother Bikramjeet Singh and started playing hockey. He made his international debut at a young age in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur in 2004. He was doing well in the Indian hockey team, but a shooting incident in August 2006 kept him in bed for a few months

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These days are the worst days of his life but he is eager to return to the Indian team. He regained his health and returned to the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in 2008, where he became the top scorer with 9 goals.

In 2009 he became India’s captain in one year won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup under his leadership. In 2012, he broke Dhanraj Pillay’s record for most goals (121). Currently, he is DSP of Haryana Police.

The Bullet that changed his life

Nicknamed ‘Flicker Singh’ for his clinical ability to score through drag-flicks, Sandeep established himself as an important cog in the Indian team at the age of 20. The youngster wanted to make his mark. title in the 2006 World Cup of Hockey before the tragedy happened on the Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express.

This Tuesday morning, Sandeep has boarded a train from Chandigarh at 8:30 am and will reach Delhi at 10 am. Guards are always present on the Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express as many VIPs, politicians, governors and many others often travel by train. Sandeep was sitting in the C-10 car on the Express train, with a railway guard, sitting behind him, cleaning his gun before he suddenly pulled something and shot the hockey player. The RPF officer was later arrested and even suspended from his post, but after Sandeep was accidentally shot dead, the train was forced to stop at Kurukshetra. Officials rushed him to a nearby civilian hospital.

When Sandeep woke up after being in a coma for several days, he ended up at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, where he was referred to the Kurukshetra Civil Hospital.

The impact of the ball was that it not only broke the spine of the hockey player, but also damaged other organs including the kidneys, liver and stomach, causing him to lose 40% of his body weight.

Recalling the tragedy, Sandeep said: “Suddenly I heard a noise. It was like a bomb blast and I felt like a hot rod was put into my body and the next thing I remember was blood pouring around me and I was paralyzed there.

When the doctors told him that he would probably have to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Sandeep refused to believe it. In his mind, all he wanted was to play hockey again. “I asked the doctor to leave my room because I didn’t want to try something bad and immediately called my older brother to bring me my hockey stick. I want to sleep with my hockey stick and I can’t wait to go back,”

he said. But what kept Sandeep going was the support of his brother Bikramjeet, who gave him a hockey stick when he was in the hospital and reminded him to stay strong and get back to playing hockey. The Indian hockey team eventually funded his treatment so that he could travel to the Netherlands to complete his training.

Sandeep went through intense training for nine months before he could play hockey again. He even started training at night so that others wouldn’t watch him for fear of failing again. “I was in a wheelchair for six months, and I hope to return to the field. I thought my career was over but my brother kept on enjoying me.

All you have to do is be determined to get back on the field, he said. Those words turned out to be magic,” Singh said. My brother helped me little by little, I started playing hockey. I played all night and slept all day because I didn’t want anyone but my family to know that I wanted to get back into the game. I’m always afraid that if I can’t do it, people will laugh at me.