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A song, 10 men and a golden finish: Harbinder recalls India’s 1966 Asiad triumph
New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) Sixty years after India scripted hockey history at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Harbinder Singh still gets goosebumps when he hears the song that became the team’s companion on its journey to gold.
“Whenever we went to a match, Shankar Laxman (India captain and goalkeeper at that time) would play ‘Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawan shaheed ho’ in the team bus, and all the players would sing along. This would automatically motivate us,” the 83-year-old three-time Olympic medallist told PTI in an exclusive interview.
“Even today, when I hear this song, I get goosebumps,” he added.
