PHF names probables for Youth Olympics

ISLAMABAD: The 3rd Youth Olympics are scheduled to be held in Buenos Aires (Argentine) from October 1-12 this year. The Asian hockey qualifiers for the Youth Olympics are to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from April 25-29.Top two teams from these qualifiers will represent Asia at the Youth Olympics.

Pakistan Hockey Federation has named 51 probable for the initial camp for the Youth Olympics, starting from 2nd April at the Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium, Islamabad. The players have been directed to report to Kamran Ashraf, the coach of the national junior team at the Allama Iqbal hostel, Pakistan Sports Complex, Islamabad by the afternoon of 1st April.

It is pertinent to mention that the hockey event of the Youth Olympics is played on 5-a-side format. Hence, the PHF has planned a 5-a-side tournament for the camp trainees, at the newly established Shahnaz Sheikh hockey stadium in Rawalpindi. The tournament will be held alongside with the training camp.

Probables: Waqar Younis, Rizwan Ali, Rehan Butt, Moin Shakeel, Adeel Latif, Junaid Manzoor, Shahzaib Khan, Ghazanfar Ali, Afraz Hakeem, Umair Sattar, Naveed Alam, Adil Rao, Amjad Ali, Awais Arshad, Rana Waheed, Ahmed Nadeem, M.Ilyas, Waqar Ali, Zakirullah, M.Ibrahim, Waqas Ahmed, Salman Shaukat, Junaid Rasool, Mohibullah, Ali Raza, Awais Rasheed, Amjad Rahman, Murtaza Yaqoob, Zulqarnain, Hammad Anjum, Abuzar, Umar Bilal, Roman Khan, Akmal Hussain, Zain Ijaz, Khairullah, Abdullah Shahid, Abrar Ahmed, Ali Hamza, M.Yasir, Faizan Alvi, M Moazzam, Zain-ul-Abideen, Daud Niaz, Hamza Sohail, Zubair Saleem, Abdul Rehman, Mohsin Khan, Asif Hanif, Mohammad Sajid, Arbaz Ahmed.