{"id":102119,"date":"2021-07-19T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102119"},"modified":"2021-07-19T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:56:28","slug":"hockey-and-ball-re-installed-in-samiullahs-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102119","title":{"rendered":"Hockey and ball re-installed in Samiullah\u2019s statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Samiullah-Khan.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bahawalpur: Hockey stick and a ball was re-installed in the statue of Olympian Samiullah Khan after it came to limelight that the essentials were stolen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to details, the theft occurred less than two weeks after the statue of a legendary hockey player was installed at a crossing in Khan\u2019s hometown to honour the left-winger popularly known as \u201cFlying Horse\u201d for his electrifying runs down the left flank.<\/p>\n<p>After the issue of stealing hockey and ball from the statute of world-renowned Olympian Samiullah Khan came to light on social media, the police came into action and registered a case and launched raids to arrest the accused.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted Khan played for Pakistan between 1973 and 1982. At the FIH World Cups, he was a member of two winning teams: 1978 and 1982. He also won silver from the 1975 World Cup. He appeared in just one Olympics in 1976 where Pakistan won bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Samiullah Khan also won three Asian Games golds: 1974, 1978 &amp; 1982 (when he was the captain), one Asia Cup gold: 1982 (captain). He scored 55 goals in international hockey including 12 in four World Cup.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/pakistan-junior-wins-phf-4-team-hockey-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan Junior wins PHF 4-team Hockey Series<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Bahawalpur: Hockey stick and a ball was re-installed in the statue of Olympian Samiullah Khan after it came to limelight that the essentials were stolen. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102119\" title=\"Hockey and ball re-installed in Samiullah\u2019s statue\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102121,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102119\/revisions\/102121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}