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The tournament will be held in December and it will be the first time ever that a Hockey Junior World Cup will include as many as 24 teams.<\/p>\n
This was announced by FIH President Tayyab Ikram who said: \u201cGiving more opportunities to play to a larger and more diverse number of National Associations is one of the key pillars of our empowerment and engagement strategy.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe saw at the FIH Hockey5s World Cup in Oman this year how more diversity brings a huge added value to our events. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTherefore, I\u2019m very happy that we\u2019ve increased the number of participating teams for the FIH Hockey Junior World Cups and I look forward to seeing these 24 young teams, representing the future of our sport, next year!\u201d he added. <\/span><\/p>\n The last edition of the tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur in 2023 with Germany emerging winners with a 2-1 win over France. Spain and India took the third and fourth places respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n India has, in the past, hosted the tournament three times in 2013 (New Delhi), 2016 (Lucknow) and 2021 (Bhubaneswar). India was the winner of the 2016 edition as well. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAt this stage, I would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to Hockey India for their commitment to organise yet another fantastic event,\u201d Ikram added. <\/span><\/p>\n Extending his gratitude, president of Hockey India Dilip Tirkey said: \u201cThis prestigious tournament highlights India\u2019s growing importance in international hockey and shows our dedication to developing the sport for future generations. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re excited to share India\u2019s rich hockey history and provide a stage for young talent to showcase their skills.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Secretary General of Hockey India Bhola Nath Singh termed this a significant step for HI.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] The tournament will be held in December and it will be the first time ever that a Hockey Junior World Cup will include as many as 24 teams. This was announced by FIH President Tayyab Ikram who said: \u201cGiving more opportunities to play to a larger and more diverse number of National Associations is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/th-7.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29441,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions\/29441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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