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    Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian hockey legend who earned three Olympic gold medals between 1928-1936, scoring over 1000 goals in his career. He dominated international hockey and was known as "The Wizard" for his incredible ball control and accuracy. After retiring from the Indian Army as a Major in 1956, Dhyan Chand continued coaching and was honored with the Padma Bhushan civilian award for his contributions to developing hockey in India. He is regarded as one of the most successful hockey players and captains in the game's history.

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    Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian hockey legend who earned three Olympic gold medals between 1928-1936, scoring over 1000 goals in his career. He dominated international hockey and was known as "The Wizard" for his incredible ball control and accuracy. After retiring from the Indian Army as a Major in 1956, Dhyan Chand continued coaching and was honored with the Padma Bhushan civilian award for his contributions to developing hockey in India. He is regarded as one of the most successful hockey players and captains in the game's history.

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    Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian hockey legend who earned three Olympic gold medals between 1928-1936, scoring over 1000 goals in his career. He dominated international hockey and was known as "The Wizard" for his incredible ball control and accuracy. After retiring from the Indian Army as a Major in 1956, Dhyan Chand continued coaching and was honored with the Padma Bhushan civilian award for his contributions to developing hockey in India. He is regarded as one of the most successful hockey players and captains in the game's history.

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    Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian hockey legend who earned three Olympic gold medals between 1928-1936, scoring over 1000 goals in his career. He dominated international hockey and was known as "The Wizard" for his incredible ball control and accuracy. After retiring from the Indian Army as a Major in 1956, Dhyan Chand continued coaching and was honored with the Padma Bhushan civilian award for his contributions to developing hockey in India. He is regarded as one of the most successful hockey players and captains in the game's history.

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    MAJOR DHYAN CHAND

    Major Dhyan Chand, the Indian hockey legend is well known for the goal-scoring ability that made him earn
    three gold medals at three consecutive Olympic events, creating history. The iconic personality has served both
    in Army as well as at the hockey field throughout his life. Widely considered as the magician of hockey, the man
    has scored around 1000 goals in his active career which is record feat.

    Dhyan Chand was born on 29th August 1905, in the city of “Sangam”-Allahabad to a British Indian Army
    employee Sameshwar Dutt Singh and Shradha Singh. Due to his father’s frequent official transfers, he was not
    able to keep pace with the academics and had to drop down studies after schooling for just six years. The boy
    was initially interested in wrestling, but after joining the Indian Army at the age of 16 got more inclined towards
    field hockey. He used to undergo Army training during daytime and practiced hockey in the moonlight.

    Soon his perseverance paid him a favorable outcome as he was selected in the Indian Army hockey team for
    New Zealand tour 1926. Dhyan Chand left everyone spell-bound with his eye-catching performance, dominating
    18 matches out of 21 with his team. In 1928, he earned gold for the nation at the Olympic event, held in
    Amsterdam. Dhyan Chand’s speed and accuracy made him earn the title of “The Wizard” of hockey. He was so
    accurate and perfect in hockey that he could even sense if there were any flaws in the measurement of the field.

    With his team, Dhyan Chand repeated the victory again at the 1932 Olympics Games, defeating the USA by 24-1
    and Japan by 11-1 and thus clinching a gold medal at the event. Undoubtedly, he had an unparalleled capability
    to blow the competition away. Dhyan Chand’s contribution is commendable in bringing India to the top-notch
    position at international hockey events. In 1935, Australian batsman Sir Donald Bradman remarked him, “He
    scores goals like runs in cricket”. There was even an arising that Adolf Hitler was so amazed by his skills that he
    offered him the post of Colonel in the German Army after watching his tremendous performance at the 1936
    Berlin Olympics. Dhyan Chand is one of the most successful captains of the Indian Hockey team. After his third
    consecutive win at the Olympics, Dhyan Chand played a vital role in the incredible victory of team India during
    an International tour, conquering 34 matches out of 37 with a contribution of 133 goals out of 338, scored by
    the team.

    Even after bidding farewell from the field, Dhyan Chand served at his best to hockey by playing and guiding the
    budding stars under his tutelage. He took retirement from the Indian Army as aa “Major” in the year 1956 and
    was also honored with third Indian civilian award “Padma Bhushan” by the government of India for his sincere
    efforts in uplifting the sport of field hockey in India. Indeed, Dhyan Chand is regarded as the shining star of the
    hockey world that has been followed by many of the legendary people and also by the burgeoning stars. He will
    always lead the heart of the hockey lovers as he used to lead the field in his times with the magical stick.

    AWARDS AND ACHEVMENTS

     1928- Gold medal at the Olympics, held in Amsterdam


     1932- Gold medal at the Olympics, held in Los Angeles
     1936- Gold medal at the Olympics, held in Berlin
     1956- Bestowed with Indian’s third-highest civilian award “Padma Bhushan” by the Government of India

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