Hockey crisis far from being over, as striking players refuse to be flexibile
Pune: The persisting crisis in Indian hockey worsened on Tuesday as striking players walked out of an inconclusive meeting with Hockey India officials here on Tuesday.
The adamant
attitude of hockey players prompted the establishment to serve a fresh 48-hour
ultimatum to all the striking players to resume training or get axed from the
World Cup squad. As HI stated that it lacked the required money to pay the
protesting
players, who are demanding Rs 4.5 lakh each apart from a graded contract system,
the campers were in no mood to relent at the meeting. Meanwhile, the HI president
AK Mattoo termed all this as a sad development and said that the players chose
money over national colours at a time when the February 28 - March 13 mega-event
is knocking at the door.
