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If the image of Sachin is formed in the mind as soon as the name of cricket in India comes, then here the second name of hockey is Major Dhyan Chand. 

Major Dhyanchand was such a player of Indian field hockey who gave this country a national sport, a national sport that proudly raised the country's head in the Olympics for a long time. 

Dhyan Chand – The God of Hockey

If people consider Sir Don Bradman to be the best player in cricket and there is no one like Rod Laver in tennis, then Dhyan Chand has a similar place in hockey. The record of scoring 101 goals in the Olympic Games, which has been made by Dhyan Chand, is not only difficult but impossible to break.

Due to the brilliant performance of Dhyan Chand in the Berlin Olympics, India won. When Hitler came to know that Dhyan Chand was in the rank of hero in the Indian Army, he even offered him to be made field marshal in the German army, but Dhyan Chand politely declined the offer.

Australian cricketer Don Bradman, impressed by Dhyan Chand's sports performance, said that the way cricketers score runs, Dhyan Chand scores goals on the hockey field.

Seeing Dhyanchand's excellent control over the ball, the officials of Holland and Japan tried to break his hockey stick several times to know if there was anything wrong with the stick, but there was nothing like it.

The popularity of Dhyan Chand abroad can be gauged from the fact that the people of Vienna installed a statue in the memory of Dhyan Chand, in which he has four hands and a hockey stick in all four hands.

Major Dhyan Chand Singh was born on 29 August 1905 in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh). At the age of fourteen, he held a hockey stick in his hand for the first time. 

At the age of sixteen, he joined the Punjab Regiment of the Army and soon he was guided by good hockey players, as a result of which Dhyan Chand's career started getting proper direction. Due to his belonging to the army, Dhyan Chand started getting recognition in the name of Major Dhyan Chand.

Dhyan Chand represented India in three Olympic Games and won gold medals for the country three times. He was truly a hockey magician. Due to his unique and amazing game, he got the team three gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games, Amsterdam Olympics 1928, Los Angeles 1932, Berlin Olympics 1936 (Captaincy). 

Dhyan Chand scored 101 goals in the Olympic Games and 300 goals in the International Games, a record that no one has been able to break to date. 28 goals were scored in the Amsterdam Hockey Olympic match, out of which eleven goals were scored by Dhyan Chand alone.

Major Dhyanchand Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in the year 1956. Major Dhyan Chand died in the year 1979 after suffering a long illness like cancer.

Major Dhyan Chand really deserves the "Bharat Ratna". He took hockey to the peak in that era when neither money was received from advertisements nor there was so much hype of the media. Major Dhyan Chand dedicated his life to this sport with the help of the salary received from the army and the amount received from sports. This country will always bow down to this great player.