Indian Hockey Team Creates History (PC: Hockey India)
New Delhi. India has created history. India’s women’s team has won the Hockey Junior Asia Cup title for the first time by defeating 4-time champion South Korea. India beat South Korea by 21. There was a tremendous fight between the two to become the champion. Both the teams could not score any goal in the first quarter.
After this, in the second quarter, Anu opened India’s account by converting the penalty corner into a goal. In the 22nd minute, he gave India the lead by scoring a goal from the left side of the goalkeeper. However, South Korea did not allow this lead of India to remain for long. After 3 minutes, Park Seo Yeon scored a goal to make the score 1-1.
Winning goal in 41st minute
After the score was equal, both the teams became more aggressive. India scored that goal for Neelam in the 41st minute, which proved to be the winning goal in the end. He gave India a 2-1 lead by scoring from the right side of the goalkeeper. After this, South Korea attacked India several times.
India win the 2023 Women’s Hockey Junior Asia Cup, beat South Korea 2-1, in Japan
Hockey India announces the players will receive a cash prize of Rs 2 lakhs each and support staff will receive a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh each for clinching their maiden Women’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 pic.twitter.com/INBYP8XI8t
— ANI (@ANI) June 11, 2023
Great defense by India
South Korea also got many chances, but South Korea could not take advantage of the penalty corner. India also did a great defense, on the basis of which the team became successful in creating history. Earlier, India’s best performance in this tournament was in 2012, when it reached the final for the first time, but China broke its dream.
Source: www.tv9hindi.com
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