{"id":14,"date":"2026-08-26T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:19:40","slug":"selecting-team-on-sympathies-legends-slam-indian-mens-hockey-team-after-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Selecting Team On Sympathies&#8221;: Legends Slam Indian Men&#8217;s Hockey Team After World Cup Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian men&#8217;s hockey team was not expected to end its 51-year-old World Cup title drought but its failure to even reach the semi-finals has exposed some long-standing frailties, including lack of intent to carry out a tough transition. The 3-5 defeat to Argentina, which ended India&#8217;s semifinal hopes, exposed weaknesses that have repeatedly surfaced since the Paris Olympics. Two-time Olympic bronze medallist goalkeeper PR Sreejesh is aghast as to how none of the talented juniors coming through the system have been given exposure with less than two years left for the Los Angeles Olympics.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian men&#8217;s hockey team was not expected to end its 51-year-old World Cup title drought but its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glossiq.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}