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Former captain MM Somaya on Wednesday said the Indian hockey team can spring a few surprises in the London Olympics which kick starts on Friday, says a report in The Hindu. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Nobbs has instilled lot of confidence in the team. The team is playing a different sort of game – tactically very alert, very fit. They have done well and I hope they carry this form to the Olympics. They are capable of surprising a few teams. They have a difficult pool but I am hopeful they will do well,\u201d Somaya said at an event organised by Sportstar magazine here. <\/p>\n

Eight-time champions India failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics four years ago. Somaya, a member of the gold medal-winning team of the Moscow Olympics, was, however, non-committal on the team\u2019s chances of winning a medal in London. <\/p>\n

According to a report in The Times Of India, <\/strong>Somaya said, “This young Indian team comes very close to the one we had at 1984 Los Angeles Games, which was better than 1980 I felt. The present side reminds me of that team,” said Somaya while speaking at the re-launch function of sports weekly magazine Sportstar at the Cricket Club of India here on Tuesday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile according to a report in The Hindu <\/strong>says that the result of India\u2019s opening hockey match against the Netherlands on July 30 will be crucial to India\u2019s chances in the London Olympics and they should not miss a single penalty corner against them, says former player Michael Kindo. <\/p>\n

\u201cIndia has a tough opening challenge against the Netherlands. A win or a draw would ease the team in its quest for a hockey medal, as Germany and New Zealand are also in India\u2019s group,\u201d Kindo, a member of the bronze-medal winning team in the 1972 Munich Olympics, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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