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Place of Birth: Punjab, India
About Jugraj Singh
- Jugraj Singh (born 22 April 1983) is a former Indian field hockey player whose playing career was cut short by a 2003 car accident.
- Born in 1983 to a Sikh family in Punjab, the former Punjab policeman was a self-coached, drag-flicker defender who later became a coach.
- A product of the Surjeet Singh Hockey Academy in Jalandhar and the Air India Hockey Academy in Delhi, Singh played left fullback for the Punjab Police team in Jalandhar; he made his international debut in the 2001 under-18 Asia Cup in Ipoh.
- Singh was not the only field-hockey player in his family; his older sister Rajbeer Kaur Rai is a former India captain and recipient of the Arjuna Award, and his brother-in-law Gurmail Singh played on the 1980 Olympic team.
- Singh played a pivotal role in taking Indian field hockey to a higher level by winning the Junior World Cup, the 2003 Indo-Pak Champions Trophy and the Asian Championship.
- He was considered to be the next Sohail Abbas by many experts; in a series against Pakistan, he performed so well that Abbas said he could see a younger version of himself in Singh. After his accident Singh attempted a comeback on the national team; however, he never went further than the probables list despite playing for the Chandigarh Dynamos with a decent record in the PHL.
- He was given an opportunity to coach the junior national team for penalty corners at the national camp.
- Singh picked four players from that team, one of whom is the renowned drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh.
- "I did not achieve this overnight.
- My drag flick coach Jugraj has worked hard for that.
- I owe my success to him," Rupinder said.
- He added "Sohail Abbas is brilliant drag flicker.
- He has the world record against his name but if Jugraj did not meet with an accident in 2003, he might have been the record holder".Singh is the penalty-corners coach of the Indian men's national team.
- With his coaching, India qualified for the London Olympics 2012 with Chief Coach Michael Nobbs.
- In the qualifiers, India's penalty-corner conversion ratio was very high because of Sandeep Singh and V.
- R.
- Raghunath.
- In the qualifying final, India defeated France 8–1.
- Of the eight goals, six (of seven attempts) were scored on penalty corners; five of the six penalty-corner goals were scored by Sandeep Singh.
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