New Delhi: Indian men will have a series of coaching camps at SAI Centre Bangalore in preparation for the London Olympics. India defeated France 8-1, in the final of the Olympic qualifiers to get an Olympic berth. The camp will be held from March 5, 2012.

After qualifying for the London Olympics with an 8-1 victory over France in the Olympic qualifiers the men’s team will see a number of coaching camps at SAI Centre Bangalore from 05 March 2012.


Prior to the commencement of the Olympic Games at London from 27 July - 12 August 2012, the Indian Men shall be playing at various tournaments overseas.  India has received invitations for two 4 Nations Tournaments at Lahore, Pakistan and Santandar, Spain besides the Olympic Test Events at London and Sultan Azlan Shah Cup at Ipoh, Malaysia.

Hockey India Selectors Col. Balbir Singh, B.P. Govinda and Syed Ali along with the Government Observers Harbinder Singh and Dilip Tirkey besides Chief Coach Michael Nobbs held a Selection Meeting to decide on the Core Group of Probable’s for future camps.

They unanimously selected the 48 probables who would be in consideration for the team that would play in the Olympic Games.

The List of probables is as under:

Goalkeepers

Bharat Chetri
PR Sreejesh
Naveen Kumar
Harmanpreet Singh
Nanak Singh

Defenders

Sandeep Singh
VR Raghunath
Rupinder Singh
Manjit kullu
Gurjinder Singh
Harbir Singh
Amit Rohidas
Rahul Shilpkar

Midfielders

Ignace Tirkey
Kothajit Singh
Sardar Singh
Birendra Lakra
Manpreet Singh
Vikas Sharma
Gurbaj Singh
VS Vinaya
Bharat
Pardeep Mor
SK Uthappa

Forwards

Yuvraj Walmiki
Tushar Khandker
Shivendra Singh
Danish Mujtaba
Sarvanjit Singh
SV Sunil
Gurvinder Singh Chandi
Pradhan Sommanna
Roshan Minz
Malak Singh
Akashdeep Singh
Chinglensana Singh Kangujam
Ramandeep Singh
Nithin Timmaiah
Dharamvir Singh
Mandip Antil
MB Aiyappa
Gurmail Singh
Arjun Antil
Damandeep Singh
Prabhdeep Singh
Ranjit Singh
Mandip Singh
MG Poonacha

By Indian Sports News