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Germany Out Of Gold Medal Race : Lost 1-3 To India

From : Syed Akber Ali Wahidi (Lahore)
World and European Germany went out of Gold medal race when they suffered third consecutive defeat, losing to India 1-3 in Match No. 9 of 26th Champions Trophy at Lahore on 7 December 2004. It was 12th meeting between the two nations in FIH’s annual show and India’s fourth win over eight-times Champion in CT’s history.
Germany still up with six wins in CT’s matches between the two sides although it was India’s second successive win over Germany in CT.

The match was far from excitement. Both the teams were involved in a extra-ordinary thriller 19 years ago at Perth’s Commonwealth Stadium. The tournament, that produced lot of excitements, was sponsored by Esanda Finance Corporation Limited. An amazing encounter became the part of that show at Western Australia in 1985 when Pargat Singh’s brilliant solo effort galvanised India into rallying from 1-5 down to hold West Germany 5-5. Defender Pargat Singh, only player to lead India in two Olympics, added a different meaning to the concept of deep defence. He adhered to the aggressive style, not content to sit back, rather stand back and watch. His style yielded rich dividends in that magnificent match. India were trailing 1-5 against Germany with just 18 minutes to go , but on that particular day, Indians did not lose hoped to strike. And strike they did. One after another India blasted four goals, three in last seven minutes, to make it 5-5. Pargat Singh was one of the scorer. He collected the ball from his own half and ran down the field. Dribbling and dodging, he tore apart the German defence to score a unique goal. India’s leveler emerged in the final minute when Joachim Carvalho converted penalty-stroke.
HEAD TO HEAD IN CT
Germany vs India
1980 : Germany 4-3 India
1982 : Germany 2-3 India
1983 : Germany 2-1 India
1985 : Germany 5-5 India
1986 : Germany 3-0 India
1989 : Germany 2-3 India
1995 ; Germany 0-0 India
1996 : Germany 2-1 India
1996 (3/4) ; Germany 5-0 India
2002 ; Germany 3-2 India
2003 : Germany 2-3 India
2004 : Germany 1-3 India

Matches IND won GER won Drawn Goals (IND) Goals (GER)
12 4 6 2 24 31
7 DECEMBER 2004 MATCH :

INDIA 3 ( Sandeep Michael – 40, Arjun Halappa – 58, Vivek Gupta – 67)
GERMANY 1 ( Jan-Marco Montag – 20 PC)

GERMANY : Ulrich Bubolz -- Philipp Crone ©, Eike Duckwitz, Christian Wein, Niklas Meinert, Till Kriwet, Benedikt Sperling, Michael Purps, Florian Keller, Oliver Hentschel, Jan-Marco Montag

SU : Moritz Flacke 9, Ulrich Klaus 10, Nicolas Emmerling 11, Christoph Menke 15, Maik Günther 20

DNP : Aadrian Kuehn, Juan Carlos Nevada-Gonzalez

INDIA : Adrian D Souza – Dilip Tirkey ©, William Xalxo, Viren Rasquinha, Vikram Pillay, Ignace Tirkey, Prabodh Tirkey , Arjun Halappa, Sandeep Michael, Tushar Khandekar V. S. Vinay

SU : Vivek Gupta 10, Adam Sinclair 16, Hari Prasad 18, Sandeep Singh 32

DNP : Girish Pimpale, Harpal Singh, Devesh Chauhan


Umpires : Hamish Jamson (ENG) - Faiz Muhammad Faizi (IND)

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