Tata Steel Officially Partnered FIH Men’s World Cup 2023: On December 13, 2022, Tata Steel Limited and Hockey India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to become the Official Partner of the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.The FIH Men’s World Cup is the pinnacle of men’s hockey tournaments. The esteemed event’s 15th edition will run from January 13 to January 29, 2023, in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
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Through a number of elite high-performance residential hockey training facilities, foreign coaches, nutritionists, and mental and physical trainers, Tata Steel has helped to enhance India’s national sport. This journey started with the Naval Tata Hockey Academy which was founded in the year 2017 as a state-of-the-art facility to enable budding field hockey talent at the grassroot level in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
In the interiors of 3 districts of Jharkhand, there are currently more than 65 grass-roots programme centres with more than 3000 cadets under the management of Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives. In addition to this, 9 centres are being run by Tata Steel Foundation in the interiors of other districts of the State with 300+ cadets. These talented cadets from the grassroot centres are promoted to the Regional Development Centre, where they are given advanced training along with a better pitch and match exposure at state levels.
The Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High-Performance Centre (HPC), an initiative of the Sports Department, Government of Odisha, in partnership with Tata Steel & Tata Trusts was inaugurated in 2019. Over the years, the HPC has developed in stature and now comprises 14 centres located throughout 6 different State districts. Around 2200 young trainees are groomed in these centres by 30 experienced coaches. The testimony to the efforts of the hockey HPC & its grassroot programmes in Odisha comes from the selection of 6 cadets in the Indian National Junior women camp in the last 12 months. Moreover, four girls have already made their international debut for the country in the junior women category.
About FIH Men’s World Cup:
The 15th edition of this famous competition, which is second only to the Olympics in importance for men, will be held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from January 13 to January 29, 2023. The FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup will be the fourth time that India will be hosting the prestigious tournament after organising it in 1982 in Bombay, 2010 in New Delhi, and 2018 in Bhubaneswar. A total of 16 nations will take part in the upcoming tournament.
