{"id":72703,"date":"2019-10-19T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72703"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T11:37:18","slug":"manpreet-rani-to-lead-indian-hockey-teams-at-olympic-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/manpreet-rani-to-lead-indian-hockey-teams-at-olympic-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Manpreet, Rani to lead Indian hockey teams at Olympic Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hockey India on Friday named an unchanged women squad, to be led by Rani Rampal, along with the men\u2019s team for the upcoming FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams are scheduled to take part in the two-legged FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers in Odisha where the World No. 5 Indian men\u2019s team will be up against World No. 22 Russia, while the World No. 9 women\u2019s hockey side will face World No. 13 USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Manpreet leads the forward line which also includes Mandeep Singh, Akashdeep Singh, and Ramandeep Singh.\u201cAfter a good preparation tour in Belgium, it was always going to be a very difficult decision to pick the best 18 players for this tournament. We have chosen a well-balanced side with a number of good flexible options,\u201d said men\u2019s chief coach Graham Reid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experienced Goalkeepers Savita and Rajani Etimarpu will guard the goal, while drag-flicker Gurjit Kaur, Sushila Chanu, Navneet Kaur, Navjot Kaur and Sharmila Devi will serve as the outfield players.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey India on Friday named an unchanged women squad, to be led by Rani Rampal, along with the men\u2019s team for the upcoming FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers. The two teams are scheduled to take part in the two-legged FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers in Odisha where the World No. 5 Indian men\u2019s team will be up [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72705,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703\/revisions\/72705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}