Abdul Hamid Hamidi - Legends of Hockey |
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More importantly, he was to Pakistan hockey what Abdul Hafeez Kardar was to cricket, the respected and feared skipper.
These two initial major triumphs of Pakistan heralded the arrival of world power in the game. Hamidi was part of the 48 and 52 failures as well, ad was a man who was all fired up but unable to change the situation he must have felt exasperated. Once the power-that is made him the skipper in 1954, he decided that discipline and hard work were the cornerstones on which he was going to build the edifice of a wining squad. With an army background, Hamidi was not known to brook any non-sense and demanded more than hundred percent from everyone. He was the one who made the work ethic mandatory and without exception. Source: www.phf.com.pk
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