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| Full name | Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Great Wall of India [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 1988 Kochi, Kerala, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
- ^ "PR Sreejesh: The Great Wall of Indian Hockey who helped India script history in Paris Olympics". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Team GB’s hockey hurt goes on after painful Olympic defeat by 10-man India - The Guardian, 4 August 2024
- ^ "Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Meet PR Sreejesh, India's talismanic goalkeeper who led them to first Olympic medal in 41 years". India Today. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Hockey: India sweeps FIH annual awards". The Times of India. 6 October 2021. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
- ^ "Asian Games Results". 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.