Indian males’s hockey workforce ahead Lalit Upadhyay needs to benefit from the house situations to finish the facet’s 48-year World Cup medal drought when the nation hosts the sport’s showpiece occasion subsequent 12 months.
India is ready to host the boys's hockey World Cup for the second consecutive time collectively in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from January 13 to 29 subsequent 12 months.
Within the final version of the occasion in 2018, India crashed out within the quarterfinals shedding 1-2 to the Netherlands.
"Sadly, we conceded a aim within the dying minutes of the quarterfinal recreation within the earlier World Cup in Bhubaneswar however since then the workforce has improved leaps and bounds, we're thought-about as critical contenders for the title," Upadhyay stated.
"Our goal now could be to benefit from the house crowd to showcase a scintillating efficiency and hopefully win a medal," he added.
India is positioned in Group D within the World Cup alongside facet England, Spain and Wales.
Since making his debut in 2014, Upadhyay has up to now turned out for India in 133 matches and was additionally a member of the workforce's historic bronze medal-winning facet on the Tokyo Olympics.
However Upadhyay, who has 31 objectives to his identify, is in no temper to take his place within the workforce as a right.
"I really feel very proud whereas donning the Indian jersey each time I step onto the pitch, all the time preserving in thoughts that this might very nicely be the final time I expertise this. "Once I first joined, I labored actually laborious to make my place within the workforce and labored on my health to match the extent of the workforce," he stated.
"Over the previous couple of years, I've gotten extra consistency in my recreation and I am proud that I am thought-about one of many senior gamers within the workforce and embrace the added duties that come together with it."
Previous to the World Cup, India will face Spain and New Zealand within the FIH Hockey Professional League matches to be held in Odisha from October 28.
"We have now optimistic momentum from the Commonwealth Video games and Olympics. The attention among the many common public for hockey in the previous couple of years is an actual motivation for us to offer our greatest on the camp and the World Cup," Upadhyay stated.
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