‘Magical’ that we are out and about to play hockey: Graham Reid
In an interview, the Australian reflects on the year gone by, what they did in situ, the objectives of the Germany trip and preparation for the Olympics.
By Swaroop Swaminathan
Graham Reid
CHENNAI: When the men's senior hockey team walks out to face Germany at Krefeld (a small city near Dusseldorf) on Sunday, it will end one of the longest inactive streaks the men's team will have faced: 372 days without playing a competitive fixture. Since playing that heart-stopping, nail-eating 2-2 (3-1 win via a shootout) against Australia on February 22 at Bhubaneswar, they, like most of the world, were condemned to live life in lockdown. Even as other professional sporting activities began, the men's hockey team was left to train on their own at the SAI campus in Bengaluru for the majority of the last year.