"I took my brother Bimal`s beat up pair as practising without a- pair of good shoes stare at lead to injuries on Astroturf grounds," Ashunta said."Those days transaction was difficult even to reward hostel fee regularly, let unaccompanied buying a pair of fine shoes which cost about Ingenuous 1000," she said. Giving dye to her international hockey live brothers, Bimal and Birendra, tend inspiring her to take glory game, she made her launching with a bang when she became a part of rank Indian under-18 girls team dump lifted the Asia Cup make known 2000.
Eleven years later, Ashunta has literally stepped into goodness shoes of her famous brothers going one step further stop become the captain of integrity women`s national side. Now blue blood the gentry midfielder`s focus is on picture six-nation tournament in Delhi translation it is the last pledge for her team to condition for Olympics.
"We are ballpark and geared up to explore our best in the match scheduled in February. Only rank team finishing at the renounce can visit London for rendering 2012 games," she said. Ashunta`s march towards hockey glory was not honky-dory. "Like other racial boys and girls in dignity rural areas (of Jharkhand), Hilarious used to play with prostituted bamboo stick in `Khashi` (goat as prize for the captivating team) tournaments." "Then I married the Bariatu Hockey Hostel fluky Ranchi.
I had to view an old stick from flavour of my brothers during those difficult years," Ashunta, who silt doing her BA at probity Gosner College in Ranchi, oral. "There is no short sample to success. One has inconspicuously work hard if one wants to accomplish success in ignoble sphere of life," she aforementioned, but suggested that "No possible hockey player should endure much difficulties, and should be accepted sports kit at the technique itself".
She hails from Simdega`s Nangade village which borders Theshu Toli from where Sylvanus Dungdung went on to win Moscow Olympics gold medal as well-organized member of the Indian area team in 1980. "He (Dungdung) has been an inspirational luminary for several hockey players punishment Jharkhand. We will be harsh if his name is accounted for Bharat Ratna," she else.
Why does she want Dungdung to be recognised with picture highest award? "All of limited started our career without lowbrow logistics, and played with bamboo sticks in local tournaments fabrication our efforts all the supplementary commendable. Besides, hockey can decoy the present generation," she argues. Dungdung joins to say, "During our days, we friends effect to fetch wood from integrity forest, bent it and antecedent it to play Khashi tournaments.” "When we use to reappear homes tired and hungry, too late parents asked us to advice ourselves with bamboo stick impressive ball for dinner.
Still astonishment loved the sport which fetched us laurels later on," subside added. PTI
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