Padma Shri Dr. Dilip Tirkey, President of Hockey India, visited Hockey Bengal ground, Red Road on 18 December to encourage the players playing in the Bengal State Hockey Championship 2024.
Triple Olympian and former Indian Captain Dilip Tirkey is the first Hockey player in the world to have played in over 400 international matches.He is the most capped Indian Hockey player with 412 international caps.
He is now the dynamic President of Hockey India. Under his able leadership India has won 5 medals in last 5 months including the Bronze medal at Paris Olympics.
It was his dream to revive HIL (last played in 2017). The 2024-25 season will start from 28th December, 2024 after a gap of 7 years at Rourkela.
This Hockey living legend Tirkey visited International Hockey Stadium at Salt Lake to see the readiness of the venue for holding the proposed International Hockey match.
Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey, spoke about his federation’s vision to restructure the tournament and make it more competitive to safeguard hockey’s future in the country.
(Ms.Pratyusha Mukherjee, an Independent Sr. Broadcast Journalist working for British media with 20 years of experience in covering the east and northeast, with specialisation in Defence and Sports.She is associated with us as Editorial head of Defence and Sports. In her illustrated career she has covered many major events and achieved International and Indian media awards for Journalism)
