Mumtaz Khan is a flamboyant player in the front row, with the potential to serve Indian women’s hockey for years. With the hurdles she faced in life to qualify for the Junior India jersey at the FIH Junior Women’s World Cup, finding her way to the goal appears to be much less stressful for the 18-year-old.
India lost the bronze medal match to England, winning hearts for a fighting performance throughout the tournament held in Potchefstroom (South Africa). Mumtaz was on target twice in regulation time, dodging defenders with sharp thinking, sharp reflexes in a tie to decide third place.
England registered a 5-2 (3-0 on penalties) win for the bronze medal, amidst the joy that the Indian wing is likely to return to. The flair for a big match situation makes him more likely to be included in India’s senior prospects. Blessed with raw speed and stick skills, Exposure will make him sharp.
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Lucknow’s Mumtaz has faced such adversities at every step in her life, just playing hockey, growing up in a big family whose source of income was selling vegetables, leading to the game being played at a brisk pace on the hockey pitch. It will be easier to shape the position in on his nerves.
The fourth child of seven siblings, Mumtaz had much in her hands beyond studies or entertainment to support her father, Hafiz Khan, who sold vegetables in a mandi. The daughter-father bond helped her later in life. The game was not in frame amid a family struggle to survive.
Women’s Hockey is full of stories of players from different states from tough backgrounds, tough from daily existence, putting their best foot forward at every occasion of the game. This playful girl from Lucknow had her first brush with the joy of competing in athletics.
Sharing the joy of young Mumtaz winning a sprint race in the neighbourhood, the parents were unaware of their young child’s ambition to pursue more such situations. She was willing to do anything, so when a hockey coach suggested grabbing a stick and running around, it was game.
The winger, whose double strikes in his Junior World Cup bronze match took the game into penalties, gave his first hockey trial in secret at the KD Singh Babu Stadium. Mumtaz solved, the mystery was revealed through a letter, asking her parents to enroll their daughter in the Girls Sports Hostel.
The father had taken her to the stadium to follow him in his autorickshaw, going about his routine in Mandi, unaware of the tests. Mumtaz’s mother strongly objected to a daughter staying in a hostel in a stadium far away from the family, playing hockey when she should be studying.
Indian hockey would have lost a talented forward making waves at an FIH competition in South Africa if parents had kept their foot on his choice of sport and helped run the business instead of studying. Mumtaz’s eldest sister persuades her mother to give her a chance for a sports-loving sibling.
This concern in families to allow a girl to pursue her dreams, worried about the lack of financial resources to support the players, appeared in the scripts of Hindi films based on the game, amid advice from well-wishers against the decision. gives. Real life in the game is tough, the journey is lonely.
The survivors get a chance to shine at a high level, with Mumtaz’s speed on the wing and goals for a vegetable vendor’s daughter representing Uttar Pradesh in the sub-junior and junior nationals. The success of sports develops the confidence to face the taunts of the society, builds self-esteem.
From her early days at Lucknow Sports Hostel, learning to find solutions to problems on her own, the cultural shock for the UP sportsperson continued in the first national camp call-up in 2017. Living and competing against juniors from different fields, Mumtaz learned. To gain their approval, make friends.
Aware of the future situation for her and her family in Lucknow, if future hockey opportunities are not available, Mumtaz’s successful performance was at the 2014 Junior Nationals in Chhattisgarh, when she was pushed into age-group hockey and waited too long. was considered small. for a call.
Within eight years, 18-year-old Mumtaz bagged the Best Player award at the Junior World Cup 2022. India defeated South Korea to reach the semi-finals in Potchefstroom, scoring their first goal in a 3–0 victory after making one. Impression in a squad full of young talent.
England dashed India’s Junior World Cup medal hopes four years ago in 2018, Mumtaz returned with a Youth Olympic silver medal as part of India’s five-a-side girls’ team. Mother Kaiser Jahan is proud of her daughter, whose determination has brought her to the limits of a senior position in India.
Team India’s return from South Africa after a spot in the top four countries of the world, is likely to hit the headlines for the players when they reach their respective homes. Mumtaz’s father, who has stopped driving an autorickshaw with a pile of vegetables in the market, would be a proud man.
Mumtaz’s mother, selling vegetables in a cart, can look back happily at the fruits of a difficult decision. Lucknow’s Tofkhana Bazaar, where Khan lives and the city’s KD Singh Babu Stadium, where a daring girl took her first foray into hockey, have given India yet another talent to spark sporting dreams.
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