Former India worldwide hockey participant Anup Antony has a easy motto. “If you’ve mastered hockey, any other sport is easy,” he stated.
Antony lives by these phrases. He is now the player-secretary of Konkan FC, a workforce within the BDFA ‘C’ division football league right here. Antony took steps to begin this football workforce over a decade in the past.
Fifteen of the 18 gamers are both worldwide or nationwide degree area hockey gamers, who joined the membership purely for his or her love of football.
“In my younger days, I was a footballer. I used to play for my father’s team. I’ve met a lot of hockey players who asked to join our football team. Konkan FC started with three hockey players, now we’re up to 15,” Antony advised The Hindu’ on Friday.
“A hockey player can adapt to football. Hockey and football is similar in terms of formation, planning, and strategy,” Antony stated.
Anup Anthony says a hockey participant can adapt to football.
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Antony was eager to make a contribution to football, and realised this dream when he began a football academy, BGF Sporting Club, 4 years in the past.
Hockey Olympian S.Okay. Uthappa is among the many hottest names in Konkan FC. “I just love playing football here, but I cannot give it my all because I have to worry about my professional hockey career,” Antony, who represents Indian Oil within the hockey home circuit, stated.
“As a hockey player, this comes easy. It’s the same concept – pass, make the run,” Uthappa stated.
V.S. Vinaya is the opposite participant within the workforce who has represented the Indian hockey workforce. Noel Robinson, Mohammed Naeemuddin, Govind Raj and Praveen Kumar are some of the gamers who’ve represented the Karnataka hockey workforce.
On Friday, Uthappa turned hero with a hat-trick, starring in Konkan FC’s 5-0 win in opposition to Jsports FC.
Konkan FC, the workforce to beat this yr, is on monitor to attaining promotion.
