PHF names senior, junior hockey teams
Source: OUR STAFF REPORTER February 11, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation has announced the players for Pakistan senior and junior hockey teams camps.
Chief selector Hasan Sardar announced the players while talking to journalists here on Tuesday. He named 34 players of senior team camp. The first phase of the training camp will be held from 20th February to 3rd March, while second phase will start from 10th March at Lahore. These players will be for the Azlan Shah Cup in April and Asia Cup in May.
Selection committee also named 35 players of junior team Camp after the two days trials at National Hockey Stadium. The training camp will start from 12th February in Rawalpindi. Pakistan Junior hockey team will play four nation tournament in Malaysia and five nation tournament in Egypt in March.
34 senior players are as follows:-
Goalkeepers: Nasir Ahmad (PIA), Sajid (Railways), Waseem (Steel Mills), Muhammad Iqbal (Navy), Salman Akbar (NBP).
Full Backs: Zeeshan Ashraf (NBP), Muhammad Imran (Army), Ehsan Ullah (PIA), Muhammad Kamran (Steel Mills), Rao Shahid (Army), Qaiser Raza (WAPDA), Sohail Abbas (WAPDA), Adnan Javed (PIA).
Halves: Rana Asif (WAPDA), Dilawar Hussain (PIA), Muhammad Saqlain (ABL), Zeeshan Ali (KESC), Waseem Ahmad (WAPDA), Waqas Zafar (Army), Sibtain Raza (NBP), Khurram Shahzad (HBL).
Forwards: Ali Baig (Police), Noman (NWFP), Kashif Ali (Railways), Shakeel Abbasi (SSGC), Waqas Sharif (WAPDA), Waqas Akbar (PIA), Rehan Butt (WAPDA), Arshad (Army), Rana Javed (WAPDA), Akhtar ALI (NBP), Sajid Junaid (KESC), Muhammad Amin (Quetta), Shabir Khan (SSGC).
35 junior players are as follows:-
Goalkeepers: Imran Shah (HBL), Imran Butt (PIA), Waqas Ahmad (Karachi), Khurram Majeed (Police).
Full Backs: Kashif Ali (PIA), Muhammad Atiq (NBP), Imran Abbas (PIA), Nawaz (NBP), Majid Khan (SSGC), Khalid Bhatti (SSGC), Wasif Siddique (NBP), Muhammad Irfan (PIA), Zaheer Ahmad (PIA), Amir Shahzad (PIA), Fareed Ahmad (HBL), Rashid (Navy), Usman Tariq (SSGC), Mohsin Bilal (PQA), Kashif Idrees (Railways), Aqeel Bhatti (HBL).
Forwards: Shafqat Rasool (PIA), Muhammad Zubair (PIA), Inayat Ullah (PIA), Haseem Khan (NBP), Muhammad Taufeeq (NBP), Muhammad Yasir (NBP), Nasir Shahzad (HBL), Rizwan (Army), Khurram Shahzad (Railways), Shahbaz (HBL), Omer Bhutta (HBL), Rana Omer (Police), Hassan Akhtar (PIA), Azlan Khan (HBL), Adeel Hussain (HBL).