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Full name | Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Great Wall of India [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kochi, Kerala, India | 8 May 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh (born 8 May 1988) is an Indian former field hockey player. He is the head coach of the India men's national U-21 team. He was the captain of the Indian national team and played as a goalkeeper.[2] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest goal keepers in the history of field hockey.[3] Sreejesh played a vital role in the Indian national team's bronze medal wins at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.[4]
He won the best male goalkeeper award at the FIH Player of the Year Awards twice.[5] He was a part of the teams that won gold at the 2014 Asian Games and the 2022 Asian Games.[6] He played in the Hockey India League for Uttar Pradesh Wizards.