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Abdul Hamid Hamidi
The youngest to make a debut for pakistan in the 48-Games
at London, ended up representing Pakistan in four Olympiads, earning medal
in two of them. More importantly, he was to Pakistan hockey what Abdul
Hafeez Kardar was to cricket, the respected and feared skipper.
Hamidi was the first Pakistan Captain who rallied the team around him
to not only win the country's first medal, a silver at the 56- Olympiad
at Melbourne, but was the also destinated to be the first to win gold
and glory at the 58- Asiad and the 60 Olympics. These two initial major
triumphs of Pakistan heralded the arrival of worl power in the game.
Hamidi was part of the 48 and 52 failures as well, ad was a man who was
all fired up but unable to change the situation he must have felt exasoerated.
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Once
the power-that be made him the skipper in 1954, he decided that decipline
and hard work were the cornerstones on which he was going to build the
edifice of a wining squad.With an army background, Hamidi was not known
to brook any non-sense and demanded more than hundred percent from everyone.
He was the one who made the work ethic amndatory and without exception.
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