India has hosted the world’s biggest hockey event four times. India has hosted the Hockey World Cup tournament in the years 1975, and 2018. India has also got the responsibility of organizing this prestigious game in the year 2023. Overall, this is the fourth time that the Hockey World Cup is going to be played in India. Two days are left for the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup -2023 to begin. From January 16 fierce battle between the teams to become the World Cup champion will begin. All the matches of the World Cup will be played in two cities of Odisha, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela. The final match of the tournament 16 will be played on January. However, Pakistan has won the maximum number of Hockey World Cup titles. But Pakistan, who has been world champion four times, is out of the World Cup this time. The biggest thing is that since the year 2018, Pakistan’s team has not even been able to qualify for the World Cup. For the first time after the year 2014, the Indian team will enter the Hockey World Cup as an Olympic medalist. The Indian team has qualified for the World Cup by winning the bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics . India has so far won the Hockey World Cup title only once. In the year , the Indian team captured the World Cup trophy by defeating Pakistan in the final. At the same time, the teams of Wales and Chile will play the Hockey World Cup for the first time. After the start of the world cup in the year 1975, these two teams have made their debut in the world cup of the year 2018.
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