The Men’s Hockey World cup 2023 will begin in the Indian cities of Bhubaneswar and Rourkela in Odisha. Most of the sixteen taking part nations have arrived in the jap Indian state and action will begin on Jan 13. It will be with the pool matches and end with the final on January 29. (Read Also: Rs. 1 CR for each player if team India wins Hockey World Cup: Odisha CM)
Let us explore a number of the attention-grabbing facts and small things earlier than the mega tournament:
1) The 2023 Men’s Hockey world cup for the fourth occasion once India will be hosting the premier FIH tournament. Mumbai 1982, Delhi 2010, and Odisha 2018 were the 3 locations- India hosted the event, the foremost by any country.
2) Four-time champions Pakistan, the foremost roaring World Cup team to date, did not qualify for the 2023 edition. It’s their second absence from the World Cup since missing the 2014 edition.
3) The 2023 World Cup conjointly celebrates fifty years of the men’s tournament since its origin in 1971.
4) Belgium is the defending champions at the 2023 edition, which is the fifteenth since the public convenience Hockey World Cup was instituted in 1971.
5) It’s the first time that a Men’s Hockey World Cup is being hosted in 2 Indian cities from Odisha — Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
6) India is the first nation to host a Hockey World cup 2 times in a row.
7) Ever since 1982, it’ll be the primary occasion once India is taking part in a Hockey World Cup as a medallist from the last athletics. The Indian men’s team won a decoration at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics in 2021, ending a 41-year wait to come back to the Olympic podium.
8) India haswon a Hockey world cup solely once, when the men’s team upraised the trophy in 1975 with a 2-1 leading win over Pakistan in the final in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
9) The new purposeful Birsa Austro-Asiatic International Hockey structure in Rourkela is currently India’s second-biggest hockey stadium with a 20,000 sitting capacity. Chandigarh isthe country’s biggest with 30,000 capacities.
10) The 2023 edition is the seventh in an Asian country, however, none of the 3 hosts — India, Pakistan, and Malaysia – so far managed to win the trophy.
11) Rajinder Singh is the sole Indian player to own finished as a top scorer at a Hockey world cup. His twelve goals in the 1982 World Cup in Bombay stood at the highest among that edition’s goal-scorers.
12) Wales and Chile will have their Men’s Hockey World Cup debut.
13) Gonzalo Peillat – The top-goal scorer in the 2014 World Cup and also in 2018 are seen in Germany with colors. As he switched his nationality from Argentina to Germany in 2022.
14) Joaquin Menini, who played the 2014 and 2018 world cups for Argentina, has switched his loyalties and taking part in Spain.
15) Belgium’s John Dohmen is the most-capped player at the 2023 World Cup with 436 international matchesbelow his belt.
