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Tiada sasaran pingat di Komanwel - PHM

KUALA LUMPUR - Tiada sasaran pingat diletakkan pada Sukan Komanwel 2010 di New Delhi.
Itu kata skuad hoki kebangsaan. Namun, Malaysia tetap mahu melakukan yang terbaik pada temasya tersebut sebagai persedian untuk cemerlang pada Sukan Asia di Guangzhou pada November ini.

Timbalan Presiden Persekutuan Hoki Malaysia (PHM), Nur Azmi Ahmad berkata, Sukan Komanwel kali ini lebih kepada persediaan terbesar bagi pasukan negara kerana mereka bakal bertemu pasukan yang kuat seperti India, Pakistan dan Australia.

Menurut Nur Azmi, beliau juga yakin 16 pemain yang dipilih untuk beraksi di New Delhi mampu melakukan yang terbaik pada temasya itu.
''Kebanyakan yang kita pilih untuk ke Komanwel ini adalah yang terbaik dan kemungkinan mereka juga bakal beraksi di Guangzhou nanti.

''Kami tidak meletakkan apa-apa sasaran pingat pada Komanwel ini kerana matlamat utama kami adalah mahu memastikan skuad kita dapat melakukan yang terbaik di New Delhi sebagai persediaan untuk mendapatkan emas di Sukan Asia,'' katanya ketika dihubungi Utusan Malaysia di sini, semalam.


Kesemua mereka kini menjalani latihan dalam negara dan bakal menentang New Zealand pada perlawanan persediaan sebelum berangkat ke New Delhi.
Nur Azmi berkata, pada Sukan Asia, November ini pasukan kebangsaan perlu memberikan tumpuan kepada pasukan dari Korea dan China yang dijangka berada dalam satu kumpulan yang sama.

''Jika kita dapat mengatasi dua pasukan itu di peringkat kumpulan pasti peluang untuk pasukan kita mara ke peringkat separuh akhir dan akhir cerah.

''Saya tahu semua peminat hoki di negara ini mahu pasukan kita melakukan yang terbaik kami juga telah berazam untuk memastikan pasukan hoki kita dapat memperoleh keputusan yang jauh lebih baik daripada Sukan Asia yang terdahulu,'' ujarnya.

Nur Azmi juga mahu semua pemain skuad hoki kebangsaan dapat menutup kalendar 2010 dengan keputusan cemerlang hasil daripada usaha berterusan pihak PHM bagi memastikan pasukan negara gah di arena antarabangsa.

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