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| Jammu boy to play in world korfball championship | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 26
Manjeet Singh of Jammu has made it into the Indian team for an international even for the second successive time. This time he is part of the 14-member Indian team taking part in the 7th World Korfball Championship to be held at Brno in Czech Republic from October 31 to November 10.
It was for the second time that Manjeet has been selected for an international event. Earlier, he represented the country in the Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship held at Hong Kong in 2005.
“Led by Rina Singh the Indian team will leave For Czech Republic on October 29”, said Manjeet Singh, general secretary of the Jammu and Kashmir Korfball Association.
''India has qualified for the world championship on the basis of their excellent performance at Hong Kong last year at the Asia-Oceania Korfball championship,'' Manjeet added.
India have been placed in Pool C along with England, Hungary and hosts Czech republic in the 16-team competition.
Meanwhile, the Korfball Federation of India secretary general Rajesh Mehta has said the team was upbeat of a good show in the championship and hopeful of a better performance that the 11th-place finish in the 2003 championship in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
''Our team has received intensive coaching and they are expected to do very well in the championship,'' Mehta said.
The squad: Pradeep Dahiya, Parveen Dhayal, Kuldeep Singh (vive-captain), Daniel GSSK, Manjit Singh, Sushant Aggarwal, Praveen Sharma, Shalini, Monika, Lalita Devi, Rina Singh (captain), Jagdish Kaur, Sumandeep Kaur, Shweta Dutt Officials: Dilip Kumar (Manager); Mala Gupta (Manager) Mukesh Khandelwal (Coach); Ashok Kumar (Delegate). |
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