chArlesworth
Top officials have said that Ric Charlesworth
has quit four months after being formally
given the job of reviving Indian hockey.
“Ric has written to us that he does not want
to continue,’’ Indian Olympic Association
secretary-general Randhir Singh said.
Aslam Sher Khan, who heads the ad hoc
committee running the Indian Hockey
Federation (IHF), said Charlesworth was not
happy with the way the game was being run
in the country. INDIAN
“He was not too happy with the system in
India and preferred to resign,’’ said Khan, a
former international. “We tried to convince
him to stay but he seemed to have made up
his mind.’’ cHarlesWortH on indian neWs
Charlesworth, who came to India as part of
an initiative by the sport’s world governing
body to revive hockey in the country, blamed “There must be a commitment to change,’’
Indian officials for the current mess. the coach said.

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The clip features Monkey,
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