In silence, Sardar thrived. In silence, he quits
The HinduHis retirement is old news by now and his career graph charted in detail but when Sardar Singh decided to speak to select media here on Saturday afternoon, he still managed to gather everyone who was invited. Dhanraj Pillay is a mentor, even players like Jamie Dwyer and Teun de Nooijer with whom I have played have been my big supporters,” he said in what would certainly rate as one of the most candid chats by an Indian hockey player. In his 12-year long career, there is little Sardar – he clarified, for once and all, that was his name, not Sardara – hasn’t witnessed, good or bad. He praised the federation and Narinder Batra for making hockey a financially viable career for Indian players, he gave credit to the professionalism in the administration and he appreciated the efforts put in to raise the team’s profile from laggards at 13-14 in the world to being in top-five. What we do need is for our younger players who have been with the Indian team recently – people like Arjun Halappa or Tushar Khandker – to go the same way, complete proper FIH courses and come back to coaching.
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