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Pakistan validate for 2018 men’s Hockey World Cup
- Updated: August 25, 2017
PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan men’s hockey group have turn a latest group to validate for a Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup Bhubaneswar 2018.
The Greenshirts, now ranked 14th in a FIH Hero World Rankings, finished in seventh position in a Hero Hockey World League Semi-Final in London, definition they faced an concerned wait to see if that was good adequate to acquire them gift to a blue riband eventuality that will take place in India subsequent year from Nov 28 to Dec 16, pronounced an central statement.
The formula during a Rabobank EuroHockey Championships, that are now holding place in Amsterdam, Netherlands have left really most in foster of Pakistan, with all 4 of a semi-finalists carrying already competent for a World Cup around a Hockey World League route.
Under FIH regulations, a group that wins a continental qualifier automatically qualifies for a World Cup.
However, a semi-finals of a European continental qualifier will be contested by Germany, England, Netherlands and Belgium, teams that have already achieved World Cup gift interjection to tip 5 finishes in a Hockey World League Semi-Finals.
Former players lambast Greenshirts
This means that a World Cup sheet goes to a top placed finisher from a Hockey World League Semi-Finals that has not already achieved World Cup qualification.
Pakistan are a aloft ranked of a dual seventh place finishers from a Hockey World League Semi-Final events that took place in London and Johannesburg, with 16th ranked France subsequent in line for that all-important World Cup ticket.
Pakistan turn a 13th group to validate for subsequent year’s tellurian showpiece, fasten horde republic India, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain and New Zealand.
The final 3 men’s World Cup gift places will be motionless by a outcomes of a arriving Continental Championship events in Oceania (October 9-15), Asia (October 17-22), and Africa (October 19-29).