| 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. {jb_quote}Hamidi was the first Pakistan Captain who rallied the team around him to not only win the country's first medal, a silver at the 56- Olympiad at Melbourne, but was the also destined to be the first to win gold and glory at the 58- Asiad and the 60 Olympics. {/jb_quote}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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The youngest to make a debut for Pakistan in the 48-Games at London, ended up representing Pakistan in four Olympiads, earning medal in two of them.