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Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper. Teams must move a hockey ball around a field by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal .
The Field Hockey Association of America (FHAA) was created six years later to govern men's field hockey in the United States. The USFHA and FHAA combined April 1993, and the United States Field Hockey Association emerged. The name eventually changed to USA Field Hockey, as we know it today. The game consists of 11 players, with two opposing teams.
The sport is largely thought of as a women's game in the United States; field hockey has historically been used as a "Title IX" sport to offset the numerous men who play college football, and as such, colleges have typically only sponsored women's field hockey teams. The players on the national team play overseas in European and Australian pro ...
To date, eleven players representing India and ten from Netherlands and Pakistan each have scored 100 or more international goals, the most of any country. The Asian Hockey Federation and European Hockey Federation has the highest number of players who have scored 100 goals in their international career, with 23 players from AHF and 22 from EHF ...
Coloured pitches are used to distinguish the field of play (green) from the run-off (red). The hockey pitch is rectangular in shape. The longer perimeter edges are called the side line, the opposing shorter edges are referred to as the back line and the portion of this between the goal posts is known as the goal line The side line must measure 91.40 m (100 yd) and the back line should measure ...
Samuel Ian Ward (born 24 December 1990), known as Sam Ward, is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward for Old Georgians and the England and Great Britain national teams. Club career [ edit ]
The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams.They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight Summer Olympic Games (1992–2012).
Ayaz Mahmood (born May 24, 1964) is a field hockey player for Pakistan. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He is one of the know personalities, who played center half for Pakistan and won a gold medal in 1984 summer olympics, Los Angeles.