LEARN TO PLAY HOCKEY THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GAME OF HOCKEY

Author: Dr. Vinod Bala Sharma, Vinod M. L.

Hockey is normally played on a grass field or turf field or an indoor stadium. Hockey is predominantly a stick and ball game ( stick made of wood ). Hockey is also the National Game of India. The objective of this game is to pass the ball with a bat to the goal of the opposite players ' court. Other players will be trying to take the ball away and make their goal. The players in the team will be assigned positions for which the duties will be defined earlier. The task of each player in the team is to get the ball to the opponent's goal point. All the players should be cooperative in scoring more goals .Most countries take part in this game. There are more than 50 countries that participate in hockey. The top twenty hockey-playing countries are Canada, Sweden, United States of America, Russia, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Germany, Latvia, India, China, North Korea, United Kingdom, Belarus, Denmark, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia, India was ranked as the eleventh country in Hockey playing.

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