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| Born | 26 January 1957 Munnar, Kerala, India [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1978–198? | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Allan Schofield (born 26 January, 1957) is a former Indian hockey player. He was part of the Indian hockey team that won the gold medal in 1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow. [3] [4]
Allan Schofield was born on 26 January 1957 (in Munnar, Kerala, India), to George Schofield, an Irish tea planter and Grace Thomas, a Malayali from Kanjikkuzhi, Kottayam, as the fourth of their seven children. [1] His Family left the tea estate and moved to Bangalore where he completed his schooling from Cathedral High School in 1974. He then joined the Indian Navy in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1975. [2]
He was invited to join the Services football team after he volunteered to stand in as the goalkeeper in an inter-club match and excelled at it. A few months later, he was again called to volunteer as a goalkeeper for a hockey match where his performance earned him a spot in the Navy Junior team and within a year, he was called up to the Indian National Hockey team in 1976. [2] [5]
He was part of the squad that lost the 1978 Asian Games final to rivals Pakistan. Two years later, he was part of the 1980 Summer Olympics squad where the Indian national team captured their eighth Olympic gold medal. He was the second goalkeeper in the squad, with Bir Bahadur Chettri being the main goalkeeper. [5]
He is an MBA graduate and lives in Canada. [5]
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