{"id":110309,"date":"2021-08-02T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110309"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:56:13","slug":"phf-hands-central-contracts-to-players-despite-fitness-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110309","title":{"rendered":"PHF hands central contracts to players despite fitness concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Pakistan-Hockey-Team.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lahore: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has handed central contracts to\u00a0 players despite many failing to meet required fitness standards, ARY Sports reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PHF secretary Asif Bajwa, Chief Selector Manzoor Jr. and Head Coach Khawaja Junaid announced the names in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>National hockey team captain Rizwan failed to get a senior central contract. Senior players Azfar Yaqub, Amjad Ali also could not get central contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Category A players will get Rs 50,000, Category B players will get Rs 40,000 and Category C players will get Rs 30,000. Emerging category players will get Rs 20,000 per month<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no compromise on discipline and fitness,&#8221; Asif said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Athletes who do not meet the fitness standards will be given three chances. Substitutes will replace if any athlete fails to meet fitness standards in three months,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category A:<\/strong> Umar Bhatta, Mubashir Ali, Ali Shan, Abu Bakar Tariq<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category B:<\/strong> Tazeem Al Hassan and Moin Shakeel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category C:<\/strong> Waqar, Abdullah, Aqeel Ahmed, Umair Sattar and Roman Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emerging category:<\/strong> Naveed Alam, Danish, Rizwan Ali and Obaidullah<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/fitness-level-of-majority-hockey-players-turn-out-as-substandard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fitness level of majority hockey players turn out as \u2018substandard\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has handed central contracts to\u00a0 players despite many failing to meet required fitness standards, ARY Sports reported. PHF secretary Asif <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110309\" title=\"PHF hands central contracts to players despite fitness concerns\">[&#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\/110309"}],"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=110309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110311,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110309\/revisions\/110311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}