Seven Dar Academy boys among 27 probables for national junior hockey team

Author: Staff Report

LAHORE: The Pakistan Hockey Federation has announced players for the National Junior Camp to prepare for the Junior World Cup and Junior Asia Cup. The 27-member camp will be held in Lahore from June 30 to July 18. As many as seven of the boys are proud products of the Dar Hockey Academy, Pakistan’s biggest reservoir of the hockey talent. They include Waqar Younis (goal keeper), Aqueel Ahmed, Hammad Anjum, Asif Haneef, Ali Aziz, Adeel Latif and Murtaza Yaqoob. All have benefited from Dar Academy’s last overseas training tour to Holland and Belgium. These talented and well trained boys got selected by three of country’s top departmental teams. They have been appearing for Pakistan WAPDA (national champions), Sui Southern Gas Company (runners-up last National Championship) and Mari Petroleum Company Limited in the domestic competitions.

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