Vasudevan_Baskaran

Vasudevan Baskaran

Vasudevan Baskaran

Field hockey player

Vasudevan Baskaran (born 17 August 1950) is a former field hockey player and coach from Tamil Nadu, India. He captained the Indian national team, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union.

In this Indian name, the name Vasudevan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Baskaran.
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Thereafter he coached and mentored several players for the Indian team. He was the head coach of the India hockey team at the 1998 and 2006 Hockey World Cup.[1] Now he lives with his family in Besant Nagar in Chennai, India.

Career

After the Olympic gold victory, Baskaran had coached India several times, the last time at the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup in Mönchengladbach. Currently he is the Chief Coach of Bhopal Badshahs in World Series Hockey league.

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Awards

He was awarded the Arjuna Award in (1979–1980) for his performance as a player in Olympic Games.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Indian Coaches in Men's Hockey World Cups". hockeypassion.in. Hockey Passion. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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