Pakistan Sports Journal

Pakistan hockey team has become Asian Champions after 20 years, Pakistan has beaten Malaysia 2-0 in the Asian Games Hockey final and regain their gold medal after 20 long years.

Penalty corner specialist and world top scorer Sohail Abbas converted a penalty corner into the goal and gave Pakistan 1-0 lead in the 28^th minute of the first half then Rehan Butt scored the second goal for Pakistan in the second half and that was enough to give the Pakistan its third gold medal in 16^th Asian Games.

This is Pakistan’s first win after the 1990 in the Asian games and with this Pakistan have secured their place in 2010 London Olympics.