Sohail Abbas
Sohail Abbas, (born 9 June 1977) is a former professional field hockey player from Pakistan who played as a Full-back. Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time he is the all-time second highest goal scorer in international field hockey and highest goal scorer in modern field hockey (artificial turf) with 348 international goals. A drag-flick specialist noted for his lethal flicks with great accuracy and speed in front of goal from penalty corners he is widely regarded as the 'King of the drag flick'.Abbas started his professional career in Pakistan and played professional hockey in Malaysia, Netherlands, Germany and India in his career most notably for Dutch side HC Rotterdam. After representing Pakistan at junior levels Abbas made his international debut in the Test series against India in February 1998. He scored his first senior international goal in the second match of the series in a 2–1 win. Abbas has 315 caps for Pakistan and in which he scored 348 goals including 21 hat-tricks an international record. He has represented his country at 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIH Hockey World Cups and the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics being the top scorer for Pakistan at both the World Cups and Olympics. Provided by Wikipedia
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8by Mohammad Faisal, Sohail Abbas, Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid Khan, Arif Ur RahmanGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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10by Sohail Abbas, Mohammad Faisal, Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid Khan, Madjid Merabti, Atta ur Rehman KhanGet full text
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12by Muhammad Hussain, Syed Hassan Abbas Jaffery, Asif Ali, Cong Dinh Nguyen, Sikandar Aftab, Muhammad Riaz, Sohail Abbas, Sajjad Hussain, Yongho Seo, Jongwan JungGet full text
Published 2021-02-01
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