{"id":3346,"date":"2012-03-16T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2012-03-16T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:55:28","slug":"sandeep-says-indian-hockey-still-in-its-rebuilding-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Sandeep says Indian hockey still in its rebuilding phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3345\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sandeep-singh.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Sandeep says Indian hockey still in its rebuilding phase\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi: <\/strong>India&#8217;s ace drag flicker Sandeep Singh on Friday said the eight-time Olympic champions are going through a rebuilding phase and it would be unfair to expect a medal in the 2012 London Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one can win a medal in a day. It took ight years for the team to evolve. We have struggled a lot. Our team is going through a rebuilding process,&#8221; said Sandeep at the India Today Conclave here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Indian hockey team failed to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games for the first time in 80 years in the history of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Sandeep, who was the star of the qualifiers held in Delhi last month scoring 16 goals, said the team would do its best to win a medal but their main target would be to beat top teams like the Netherlands, Australia and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will try to win a medal but we want to beat the top four teams and bring the glory back to Indian hockey, that&#8217;s our main target.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3345\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sandeep-singh.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Sandeep says Indian hockey still in its rebuilding phase\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi: <\/strong>India&#8217;s ace drag flicker Sandeep Singh on Friday said the eight-time Olympic champions are going through a rebuilding phase and it would be unfair to expect a medal in the 2012 London Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one can win a medal in a day. It took ight years for the team to evolve. We have struggled a lot. Our team is going through a rebuilding process,&#8221; said Sandeep at the India Today Conclave here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1601,2063,771],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-2012-london-games","tag-olympic-champions","tag-sandeep-singh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sandeep says Indian hockey still in its rebuilding phase - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3346\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sandeep says Indian hockey still in its rebuilding phase - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: India&#039;s ace drag flicker Sandeep Singh on Friday said the eight-time Olympic champions are going through a rebuilding phase and it would be unfair to expect a medal in the 2012 London Games. &quot;No one can win a medal in a day. 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