Imran Sherwani is a former English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 player, who was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

 in Seoul

Seoul

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He scored two of the three goals against Germany

Germany

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 in the 1988 final and made one of the most significant contributions to the match. The former police officer, a newsagent by trade, was capped 45 times for Britain and 49 times for England. He played his club hockey for both Stourport and Stone. Sherwani is of Pakistani descent; his father played hockey for Pakistan and his great uncles played for Stoke City and Port Vale.