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National Sports Day: Remembering Dhyan Chand on His Birth Anniversary

National Sports Day: Remembering Dhyan Chand on His Birth Anniversary

National Sports Day: Remembering Dhyan Chand on His Birth Anniversary
August 29
14:29 2020

Talking about hockey in India is impossible without the mention of sports legend Dhyan Chand. The late hockey player was born on August 29, 1905. With his extraordinary goal-scoring feats, the sportsperson earned his name and fame in the field of Indian hockey.

Talking about hockey in India is impossible without the mention of sports legend Dhyan Chand. The late hockey player was born on August 29, 1905. With his extraordinary goal-scoring feats, the sportsperson earned his name and fame in the field of Indian hockey.

He earned three Olympic gold awards, in 1928, 1932, and 1936. For his commitment towards Indian hockey, Dhyan Chand was otherwise called The Wizard or The Magician of hockey.

He has been consulted with a few distinctions, including India’s third most noteworthy regular citizen honor of Padma Bhushan in 1956. Likewise, the Government of India additionally commends his birthday on August 29 as the National Sports Day.

On his 115th birth commemoration this year, here are a couple of generally secret realities about the hockey player:

• Born in Allahabad, Major Dhyan Chand was the senior sibling of another hockey player Roop Singh. His family played hockey for the British Indian Army.

• He moved on from Victoria College in Gwalior in the year 1932.

• During his youth days, Dhyan Chand cherished wrestling. He had no specific enthusiasm for the game thusly.

• Dhyan Singh got the name ‘Chand’ after his kindred players saw him rehearsing by and large during the night after his obligation hours.

• The player was the main objective scorer at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. He scored 14 objectives, accurately procuring the name of ‘the performer of hockey’.

• For Dhyan Chand, his preferred hockey coordinate memory was from the 1933 Beighton Cup last between Calcutta Customs and Jhansi Heroes.

• Several reports notice that Dhyan Chand was offered German citizenship by then German tyrant Adolf Hitler. Nonetheless, he declined the offer.

• In his games vocation traversing more than 22 years, Dhyan Chand has scored more than 400 objectives somewhere in the range of 1926 and 1948.

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