Watch: Pakan hockey team arrives in Chennai for Asian Champions Trophy | Hockey News
The Pakan hockey team arrived in Chennai late on Tuesday night to take part in the Asian Champions Trophy.
As the Pakan players made their way out from the airport, they were greeted music and much fanfare.
Earlier in the day, the team had arrived in India via the Attari-Wagah border. The Pakan team then flew to Chennai after entering Amritsar road.
The highly-anticipated match between arch-rivals India and Pakan will take place on August 9.
Pakan hockey team arrives in Chennai for the ACT.
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Meanwhile, the Harmanpreet Singh-led Indian team too landed in the city on Tuesday morning.
The Indian team is scheduled to train at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium at Egmore, the venue for the tournament, on Wednesday before its opening match against China on Thursday.
Pakan, too, will train on the same day.
The Asian Hockey Champions Trophy was first started as a women’s teams competition in 2010.
After the success of the women’s Asian Champions Trophy, the men’s competition was held in 2011 with six top teams in the continent.
Till 2013, the ACT was an annual affair. However, from 2016 onwards, the tournament was staged every two years.
The 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
India and Pakan have won the tournament thrice, sharing the trophy in 2018.
South Korea are the defending champions having beaten Japan in the final of the last edition in 2021.
