Former India hockey captain Viren Rasquinha criticised Hockey India\u2019s decision to replace the team\u2019s iconic blue jersey with saffron ahead of the 2026 Hockey World Cup, calling it “embarrassing” and questioning the change. Hockey India said the new colour symbolises “courage, sacrifice & victory” and represents new beginnings. India\u2019s men and women will begin their World Cup campaigns in Group D.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former India hockey captain Viren Rasquinha criticised Hockey India\u2019s decision to replace the team\u2019s iconic blue jersey with saffron ahead of the 2026 Hockey World Cup, calling it “embarrassing” and questioning the change. Hockey India said the new colour symbolises “courage, sacrifice & victory” and represents new beginnings. India\u2019s men and women will begin their… Read More »‘Embarrassing’: Former hockey captain slams India’s blue jersey being replaced by saffron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":124829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}