~ The 19-year-old is part of the Indian Junior Males’s Hockey Staff set to tour Europe later this month ~
New Delhi, 16th Could: The Indian Junior Males’s Hockey group is gearing up for his or her tour of Europe scheduled for later this month and Prince Deep Singh, the group’s goalkeeper, is thrilled at having an opportunity to realize some much-needed publicity taking part in in opposition to groups from different nations.
The Indian Junior Males’s Hockey Staff, led by Rohit, will be taking part in matches in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands between twentieth and twenty ninth Could. Among the many twenty gamers chosen to be part of the tour is Prince Deep Singh, who has been picked alongside Bikramjit Singh to shoulder the goal-keeping tasks.
Coming from a humble background within the Pathankot district of Punjab, Prince Deep Singh picked up a hockey stick in 2016 for the primary time. “I watched the Indian group play on TV and was notably keen on PR Sreejesh’s sport. It made us need to attempt taking part in the game. As I began to take pleasure in it whereas taking part in with my mates, I moved to an Academy,” he mentioned.
Prince Deep Singh slowly moved up the ranks and went on to signify Roundglass Punjab Hockey Membership Academy within the 2nd Hockey India Junior Males Academy Nationwide Championship 2022 earlier than having a chance to signify Punjab within the fifth Khelo India Youth Video games 2022 which befell in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh the place they gained the Bronze. He additionally represented Hockey Punjab within the thirteenth Hockey India Junior Males Nationwide Championship that befell in June 2023 in Rourkela, Odisha. Though the group completed in fifth place, Prince Deep left a mark together with his goal-keeping prowess through the event and over the 12 months throughout different home tournaments as a results of which he was drafted in to be part of the 40-member Junior Males’s Nationwide teaching camp in Bengaluru earlier this 12 months.
Talking about his expertise through the camp, he mentioned, “I obtained to study loads. Attending to be among the many finest Junior gamers within the nation makes you need to put your finest foot ahead. I labored on getting higher with every apply session and it helped that everybody concerned motivated me.”
“All of us obtained to know one another properly, each as gamers and people. That goes a good distance in making a optimistic group surroundings,” he added.
The Indian Junior Males’s group’s tour of Europe will assist the gamers develop their sport and study about what they should work on going into the season. Prince believes it is a chance for him to take his sport to the subsequent degree. He mentioned, “If you play in opposition to groups from different nations, you should deliver your A-game. I see this as a chance for the group in addition to for myself to establish what we’re doing properly and what we have to tweak to have the option to succeed in larger heights within the sport. That’s the reason for this tour and I consider we’re going to make full use of it.”
“Proper now, I’d love to do properly for the nation on the Junior degree and assist us win tournaments with each likelihood I get after which go on to signify the senior Indian Males’s Hockey Staff. I need to win the Gold within the Olympics for India at some point. That’s the final dream,” he concluded.
