‘It’s a brand new starting for Indian hockey’: Dilpreet Singh on Olympic bronze medal

The Indian hockey workforce saved its morale excessive regardless of the challenges posed by COVID-19 and the historic bronze medal profitable feat on the Tokyo Olympics is just just the start of a brand new period, mentioned younger striker Dilpreet Singh on Wednesday.
The Indian males’s workforce had ended a 41-year-old lengthy look forward to an Olympic medal when it clinched the bronze on the Tokyo Games final month. “We all worked so hard to achieve this feat. We never let any difficulties during the pandemic affect our morale. The seniors played a big part in encouraging us constantly and making us feel like we can do this,” he mentioned in a launch issued by Hockey India (HI).
“I truly believe that this is a new beginning. We all want to achieve more, and we want people to give us more love and continue to support us. “And for this to happen, we know we must consistently perform well at major tournaments. We are mentally prepared for it,” the 21-years-old added.

Dilpreet has had a dream run to this point with the Indian workforce. Ever since his grand outing within the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2017 the place the India Colts received the Bronze Medal, Dilpreet’s profession has soared to new heights. He was called-up for the senior camp and shortly grew to become a part of the workforce in virtually each main match since 2018 together with the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games in addition to the World Cup in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

“I feel so fortunate to be part of this incredible group and yes, I do believe I have been lucky to have had such a great start to my international career,” he mentioned. The younger ahead from Punjab mentioned the help he acquired significantly when he was dropped from the senior workforce following the 2018 FIH males’s World Cup the place the workforce was knocked out within the quarterfinals grew to become the turning level of his profession.
“Looking back, surely that was not an easy period for me. Maybe, I could not handle the success of getting to play in such major tournaments so early in my career. I was hardly 18 or 19 years old then,” he mentioned. “The junior workforce coaches guided me all by 2019 and I additionally labored intently with the psychologist in SAI, Bengaluru at the moment.
“After chief coach Graham Reid took over, he watched me during training and spoke to me personally and that motivated me a lot. After I got a chance to come back to the Senior Group, there has been no looking back.”