New Delhi: In a bizzare scene from the world of sports, the Pakistan national hockey team players were seen sitting in the stands and waving the Chinese flags while sitting in the stands. The finals of the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 saw an unprecedented turnout of people with a large number of home crowd gearing up for a pulsating match at the Moqi Hockey Training Base Stadium.
Pakistan’s Hockey team Supporting China In final after loosing from China In SF salo ne china ko baap bana liya hai #HockeyIndia #IndiaKaGame #INDVKOR #ACT24 #SemiFinals #HockeyIndia pic.twitter.com/tZKRi9zQF4
— Aman gupta (@AmanGuptaGolu) September 17, 2024
Interestingly, Pakistani players were also spotted in the stadium, wearing Pakistan tracksuits but cheering for China, holding and waving Chinese flags. Everytime there was an attack created by the Chinese team, the Pakistani team cheered their ‘favourite‘ team for the night. Pakistan’s shameful and cowardly act did not go unnoticed as netizens took to twitter to bash the Pakistani team collectively.
Netizens condemn this “SHAMEFUL” act
The social media was buzzing with a passionate exchange of opinions as netizens criticised Pakistani team’s ‘shameful’ act.
India vs China are playing the final of Asian Champions Trophy,
And
Pakistani Hockey Players Supporting China
They were never ours and never will be.#AsianChampionsTrophy#HockeyIndia pic.twitter.com/sDvvggvM3W
— Arun kumar baudh (@arunbhim62) September 17, 2024
Pakistani Hockey Players Supporting China 🇨🇳
What more you can expect from them 👀#AsianChampionsTrophy2024#HockeyAsianChampionsTrophy #hockeyindia #hockeyPakishtan pic.twitter.com/6WqfUVXGQk
— Nitendra Singh Rawat OLY🇮🇳 (@NrawatSingh) September 17, 2024
China supporters- We were disappointed but two more groups were more disappointed than us. #INDvCHN #HockeyIndia pic.twitter.com/0iqayhXSw7
— iʈs__dɦɑɤɱesɦ (@its__dharmesh) September 17, 2024
India win 5th Asian Champions Trophy
Meanwhile, India gave a befitting reply to the Pakistani team who were waving their Chinese flags by eventually winning the game in front of a packed crowd full of home crowd. Jugraj Singh was the difference between the two sides as he slipped in a cheeky ball supplied by Indian skipper Harmanpreet Singh. The Chinese team played with full spirit and grit to stop the Indian team from creating too many dangerous chances towards the goal.