The newspaper HT, New Delhi edition has exposed the renumeration system for Indian National hockey players that was upgraded a month before the World Cup.
1. For playing in World Cup and Olympics - Rs 10,000/match. 2. For playing International match - Rs 5000/match.
If a hockey player plays average 50 International matches (including Olympics, WC, Champions trophy) a year, he would maximum earn Rs 3-3.5 lakhs/year for playing for Indian National hockey team.
Contrary to this Spanish captain Pablo Amat earns $16m (Rs 75 Crore)/year from hockey. Hockey players in Germany, Australia and Holland earn between $2m-$14m from playing hockey.
world no 1 current drag flipper sandip singh made only 3 goals from 10 penlty corner then u think india can win we have provided them enough money thought that they will win but bull shit i dont think that they ll win against south africa too indian forward prabhjot singh always seems behind other team striker and thinks that opponent ll miss the ball and he would make a move i think india is weakest................ team in this WC performance forget SA
