National Sports Day|| Major Dhyanchand Barth Dhyanchand barth anniversary the legendary hockey player of the country,

 August 29 is celebrated as National Sports Day in India. This day is the birth anniversary of the legendary hockey player of the country, Major Dhyanchand. Dhyanchand got India a gold medal in the Olympic Games. Because of this, India was recognized internationally. In his honor, 29 August is celebrated every year as National Sports Day in India.

Why National Sports Day is celebrated

 The reason behind celebrating National Sports Day is to give sports and sportsmanship and respect to the players. Apart from this, the main work of making people aware of sports is also done by celebrating Sports Day every year. Such days recognize youth, provide employment and praise the work of various sportspersons and create awareness among youth about sports. This is the reason that National Sports Day is celebrated on the birthday of Major Dhyanchand to remember the hockey wizard every year.

Let us know some information about the life of Major Dhyanchand.

early life :

        Major Dhyanchand was born on 29 August 1905 in Allahabad. There were no special signs of sportsmanship in his childhood. Therefore, it can be said that the talent of the game of hockey was not innate, rather he earned this reputation through continuous practice, practice, perseverance, struggle and resolution. After getting a general education, at the age of 16, in 1922 AD, in the first Brahmin Regiment in Delhi, enlisted in the army as an ordinary soldier.

        At the time, while filling in the 'First Brahmin Regiment', he did not have any special interest or interest in hockey. The credit for motivating Dhyanchand to play hockey is to Major Tiwari, a Subedar of the Regiment. Major Tiwari himself was also a lover and sportsman. Dhyanchand started playing hockey under his supervision and he became a great player of the world. In 1927 AD, Lance was made a hero. In 1932, Nayak was appointed when he went to Los Angeles. In 1937, when he was the captain of the Indian hockey team, he was made the Subedar.

Dhyanchand is considered equivalent to Pelé in football and Bradman in cricket. The ball would stick to his stick so much that the rival player often feared that he was playing with the magic stick. Even in Holland, he was seen breaking his stick in fear of having a magnet in his hockey stick. In Japan, seeing the way the ball used to stick to Dhyanchand's hockey stick, it was said that his hockey stick had glue.

        There are hardly any tales of Dhyanchand's art of hockey that have been heard about any other player in the world. Seeing his artistry of hockey, the fans of hockey used to wake up saying wow-wah, but even the players of the rival team lost their intelligence and got engrossed in seeing his artistry. Fascinated by his artistry, the stubborn emperor like Rudolf Hitler of Germany offered him to play for Germany. But Dhyanchand always considered playing for India the greatest pride.

        INS Dara, who played with him in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and later became the captain of Pakistan, wrote in an issue of World Hockey Magazine, "Dhyan never had high speed but he used to run slow. But he had the gap The ability to recognize was amazing. In the left flank, his brother Roop Singh and in the right flank I got the benefit of his ball distribution. After entering D, he used to shoot with such quickness and power that for the best goalkeeper in the world There was no chance. " Two-time Olympic champion Keshav Dutt told us that many people were convinced of his strong wrists and dribbling.

"But his real talent was on his mind. He could see the hockey field in the same way that a chess player would look at the chess board. He would have known without knowing which side of the field his team players and opponents were Are moving. " During the 1947 tour of East Africa, he turned his face towards his own goal after passing the ball to KD Singh Babu and did not even look towards Babu. When he was later asked the reason for his strange act, his reply was, "Even if Babu could not score a goal on that pass, he had no right to be in my team."

        Major Dhyanchand is known for scoring fast goals and bringing the Olympic gold medal 3 times. Dhyanchand's real name was Dhyan Singh, but he used to practice in the light of the moon at night, so his colleagues put his name behind him. Dhyanchand was admitted as an ordinary soldier in the "First Brahmin Regiment" at the age of 16. But he went on to the rank of Major in the Indian Army. Once something happened that during a match in the Netherlands, he was seen breaking his hockey stick, with the suspicion that there was no magnet in the stick. But he did not get anything because Dhyanchand was not in the magic hockey stick.

When Germany was defeated badly 

Major Dhyanchand and an anecdote of German dictator Hitler are quite famous. Actually it is in 1936 when India and Germany were going to play hockey final match of Berlin Olympics. Hitler was also present in the field among millions. The German team, in any case, wanted to win these final matches. For this, the German players had also come down to bad luck and shocks. Major Dhyanchand's teeth were broken due to hitting German goalkeeper Tito Warneholtz. But they soon came on the field and beat Germany 8–1 badly in the same fashion.

Hitler proposed 

Major Dhyanchand scored three goals in this match. Impressed by his game, Hitler proposed to him to acquire German citizenship and he would be given wealth as a colonel in the German army. But Major Dhyanchand turned down Hitler's proposal.

gold medal 

       Dhyanchand represented India in three Olympic Games and won the gold medal for the country three times. India scored 338 goals in 37 matches in 1932, in which 133 goals were scored by Dhyanchand. Before the Second World War, Dhyanchand gave India gold medals in hockey in three consecutive Olympics in 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles) and 1936 (Berlin).

interesting fact 

• Dhyan Chand joined the Indian Army at the age of 16. He started playing hockey after being admitted. Dhyan Chand used to practice a lot. In the night, their practice sessions were seen by connecting with the moon. Hence his fellow players gave him the name 'Chand'.

He was the highest goalscorer for India at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. In that tournament Dhyanchand scored 14 goals. A local newspaper wrote, 'It was not magic but hockey. And Dhyan Chand is a hockey magician. '

• Although Dhyanchand played many memorable matches, do you know which match he liked most personally. Dhyan Chand said that the Bigton Club final played between Calcutta Customs and Jhansi Heroes in 1933 was his most favorite match.

• India defeated the United States 24–1 in the 1932 Olympic final. In that match Dhyanchand had scored 8 goals. His brother Roop Singh had scored 10 goals. Of the 35 goals scored by India in that tournament, 25 were done by Dhyanchand and his brother.

Hitler himself had offered Dhyanchand a large post by joining the German army, but he preferred to remain in India.

He wrote in his autobiography 'Gol', you should know that I am a very ordinary man.

• Dhyanchand could not score goals in one match, then he complained to the match referee about the size of the goal post. Surprisingly, the width of the post was less in proportion to international standards.

Death

        Dhyanchand, a reputed center-forward player in the field of hockey, retired from hockey in the year 1948 after playing hockey till the age of 42 years. Major Dhyan Chand died in the year 1979 after facing a long illness like cancer.