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NEW DELHI: Fresh from their best-ever display during a Champions Trophy hockey tournament, star striker SV Sunil says India mount a really good possibility of finishing on a lectern in a arriving Rio Olympics overdue to new-found mental toughness.
The Indian group staid for a china award in a best- ever Champions Trophy opening after it went down fighting to universe champions Australia 1-3 in a controversy-marred limit strife chastisement shootout in London final Friday.
“After a Champions Trophy performance, generally a approach we played a final, we have a good possibility in Rio and we are really confident about a lectern finish there. We will give a best and this china award will
work like a tonic for us,” Sunil told PTI Bhasha in an talk from Spain.
He pronounced that this Indian side is not disposed to succumbing opposite a large teams anymore and is able of violence any side in a world.
“Earlier, we used to get frightened about all tip teams though now we all know that we can kick any group in a world. So, mentally, we have altered a lot, callous up, and all a credit goes to arch manager Roelant (Oltmans), who always interpose a most indispensable self faith in us,” he said.
Asked if there was any specific credentials to get absolved of a mental block, he pronounced that it’s all about self motivation.
“This new found mental toughness is a outcome of self motivation. There is no other tip formula,” he added.
Seventh-ranked India degraded bigger teams like Britain and drew a opening compare opposite Olympic champions Germany in a prestigious contest recently.
Despite a morale-boosting result, Sunil identified certain areas where a group needs to work harder.
“We need to urge some-more on distinguished zone. We have to work on ideal finish after entering D circle. With alleviation in a conflict we can repeat this opening in arriving tournaments,” pronounced a ace forward.
He is unhappy with a customary of umpiring in a final though is happy with India’s altogether opening in a tournament.
“In chastisement shootout umpires should have been some-more wakeful of timings, they done a mistake that cost us. Otherwise we were intensely happy as it was a sum group effort. It’s an overwhelming feeling that a tough work paid off. We could have won a final in law time though we missed some easy chances.
Still we am really happy with a altogether performance,” pronounced Sunil.
“We had no time to applaud as we had to pierce to Spain immediately,” he pronounced when asked about how a group distinguished this ancestral win.(PTI)