PHF Names Saeed As Manager/head Coach Of Pak Hockey Team

Muhammad Rameez Published January 04, 2019 | 07:31 PM

President, Pakistan Hockey Federation, Brigadier (retd) Khalid Sajjad Khokhar has appointed double World Cup winner Saeed Khan as the Manager/Head Coach of the Pakistan team for the FIH Pro League.

LAHORE, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Jan, 2019 ) :President, Pakistan Hockey Federation, Brigadier (retd) Khalid Sajjad Khokhar has appointed double World Cup winner Saeed Khan as the Manager/Head Coach of the Pakistan team for the FIH Pro League.

Saeed Khan was a member of Pakistan's World Cup winning teams of 1978 and 1982, said a spokesman of the PHF here.

He has had coaching assignments with the Pakistan national teams, in the past including the highly successful year of 1994 when the green shirts won the World Cup and the Champions Trophy.

His last assignment was as head coach of the Pakistan women team at the Asian Games Qualifiers in Thailand in January, 2018.

Pakistan's first match of the FIH Pro League is scheduled on February 2 against Argentina, he said.