LAHORE – Haier Pakistan has become the title sponsor of the national hockey team till 2020, it was announced on Saturday.
The MoU was signed by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) officials and Javed Afridi, CEO Haier, and chairman Peshawar Zalmi, at a ceremony in Lahore, says a press release issued here on Sunday.
We are honoured to help the PHF and the Pakistan Hockey team in this time of need where the sport seems to be in a bit of a turmoil. This is a step in the right direction for the sport and will encourage the young ambitious hockey players to see an optimistic future ahead of them pic.twitter.com/j40Bc7OaNI
— Javed Afridi 阿夫里迪 (@JAfridi10) November 10, 2018
“Hockey is our national sport and we are recognized throughout the world because of it,” Javed said.
“Pakistan has enormous talent and we will soon climb the ranks in our national sport again,” he added.
Meanwhile, PHF president Khalid Sajjad Khokhar and secretary Shahbaz Ahmed termed it a step in the right direction and said that Pakistan hockey was in “dire need of such support”.
India is going to host the 2018 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup at Bhubaneswar from November 28 to December 16.
Team Pakistan will leave for India to participate in the mega event later this month.
