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2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup

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Host country
  
India

Teams
  
11

Runner-up
  
South Korea

City
  
Chennai

Champions
  
India (2nd title)

Third place
  
Malaysia

The 2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup was the seventh tournament of the Hockey Asia Cup for men. It was held from August 31 to September 9, 2007 in Chennai, India. India came in first, defeating Korea in the finals, with a score line of seven goals to two. Korea came in second, and Malaysia came in third.

India led 3-1 at halftime. In the early stages of the second half, Korea staged a walkout, which was led by their coach. This was done due to a decision by the umpire to disallow a goal scored by Korea. Replays clearly showed that the Korean forward had struck the ball from outside the striking circle. In response, India scored a goal through a counterattack in the very next minute. Two Korean forwards had continued to argue with the umpire on the disallowed goal. Korea never recovered from that after which, India's forward line scored 3 more goals to make it 7-1 before Korea reduced the margin to 7-2 in the penultimate minute. Baljit Singh, the Indian goalkeeper, was declared the man of the match for his excellent saves. The striking feature of India's win was that all the 7 goals were 'field' goals, and none of them came through 'penalty corners' or 'strokes'. India thus ended the tournament with 57 goals for and just 5 goals were conceded against them.

Malaysia got a medal in the Hockey Asia Cup for the first time. It was also the first time since 1982 that Pakistan did not qualify for the Semi Finals in the Hockey Asia Cup. Pakistan's bad performances cost them dearly. They lost to Japan 3–1 and drew their league match against Malaysia 3–3. Pakistan lost to China in the 5th/6th place playoff, and ended 6th in the tournament.

Pools

Teams participating

Bangladesh

China

Hong Kong

India

Japan

Malaysia

Pakistan

Singapore

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Thailand

All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC +5.30)

References

2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup Wikipedia