Mirnawan calls for hockey team to aim higher


Former national hockey player Mirnawan Nawawi (centre) having a chat with the national team during a meeting at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Sunday. - SHAARI CHEMAT/ The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Eleven members of the Malaysian 2002 World Cup hockey squad turned up to give morale support to the national team heading for the World Cup in The Hague, Holland, from May 31-June 15.

Led by skipper Mirnawan Nawawi, they met the current batch of 30 players at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Sunday. Besides Mirnawan, the others who turned up were S. Kuhan, Maninderjit Singh, S. Shankar, Fairuz Affendy, Mohamed Rodhanizam Radzi, K. Logan Raj, Mohamed Nasihin Nubli, Chairil Anwar, Nor Azlan Bakar and Roslan Jamaluddin.

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