Shahnaz Sheikh
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Shahnaz Sheikh is a famous hockey player from Pakistan. He was born at Sialkot
, Pakistan.
A forward, Shahnaz Sheikh played between 1969 and 1978, he was capped 68 times and scored 45 goals. He won Silver in the 1972 Olympics and Bronze in the 1976 Olympics . Shahnaz won 1971 World Cup and was runner-up in the 1975 and won 1978 World Cups. There cannot be two opinions about the fact that Shahnaz was one of the most crafty of hockey players that Pakistan has so far produced. At the same time he also was an explosive player who stood tall among his generation and would have easily walked into any side in the world.
Being given a feminine name, that was the only soft thing about him as he was a marauder on the left wing, and was an inner to Samiullah in the later part of his career he ran shivers down the spined of opposition defences. To them he was nemesis, virtually unstoppable on his day and a handful on all others.
In early 70's he was the only really mobile Pakistani forward but the mid 70'2 he had become such a force that his absence from the field through injury was a major cause of the Greenshirts narrowlly losing two prestige assignments: the '75 World Cup final against India at Kaula Lumpur and the '76 Montreal Olympics against Australia in the Semis. On both occasions, Pakistan went down 2-1 on controversial circumstances.
The good thing about shahnaz seemed to have good hockey head over his shoulders, that at least was one's impression of him after his rather brief stint coach of the Pakistan Junior team, which in his supervision won the Junior Asia Cup.
Sialkot
Sialkot is a city in Pakistan situated in the north-east of the Punjab province at the foothills of snow-covered peaks of Kashmir near the Chenab river. It is the capital of Sialkot District. The city is about north-west of Lahore and only a few kilometers from Indian-controlled Jammu.The...
, Pakistan.
A forward, Shahnaz Sheikh played between 1969 and 1978, he was capped 68 times and scored 45 goals. He won Silver in the 1972 Olympics and Bronze in the 1976 Olympics . Shahnaz won 1971 World Cup and was runner-up in the 1975 and won 1978 World Cups. There cannot be two opinions about the fact that Shahnaz was one of the most crafty of hockey players that Pakistan has so far produced. At the same time he also was an explosive player who stood tall among his generation and would have easily walked into any side in the world.
Being given a feminine name, that was the only soft thing about him as he was a marauder on the left wing, and was an inner to Samiullah in the later part of his career he ran shivers down the spined of opposition defences. To them he was nemesis, virtually unstoppable on his day and a handful on all others.
In early 70's he was the only really mobile Pakistani forward but the mid 70'2 he had become such a force that his absence from the field through injury was a major cause of the Greenshirts narrowlly losing two prestige assignments: the '75 World Cup final against India at Kaula Lumpur and the '76 Montreal Olympics against Australia in the Semis. On both occasions, Pakistan went down 2-1 on controversial circumstances.
The good thing about shahnaz seemed to have good hockey head over his shoulders, that at least was one's impression of him after his rather brief stint coach of the Pakistan Junior team, which in his supervision won the Junior Asia Cup.