“I am the first player from Odisha to play for India.”
Odisha is in a festive mood. The eastern state hasn’t just become India’s but the world’s centre of hockey as it hosts its second successive World Cup, having staged several other top-tier tournaments.
Hailing from Rasrajpur village in the tribal Sundergarh district, Tirkey’s side finished fifth in the Malaysian capital where West Germany won the World Cup.“Back then we had never played on artificial turf. Just before leaving for the World Cup, we went to New Delhi to train and get a feel of the artificial turf that had been newly laid at the National Stadium. It was the first artificial pitch in India and was laid just before the 1982 Asian Games,” Peter Tirkey says.
Tirkey was heartbroken and never returned to the national camp after that despite being called up multiple times. He decided he would only represent Odisha, for whom he played till 1991.Though hockey was hugely popular in the country when Tirkey was growing up, it was nothing compared to the craze for the sport in Odisha, especially Sundergarh district. Tirkey was born into a family of farmers, the eldest of nine children. It was in his school years that he started playing.
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