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| Full name | Imran Ahmed Khan Sherwani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 1962 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imran Ahmed Khan Sherwani (born 9 April 1962) is a former English international field hockey player.
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| Born | 9 April 1962 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imran Ahmed Khan Sherwani (born 9 April 1962) is a former English international field hockey player.
Sherwani won gold with the Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He played on the left wing, and scored two of the three goals against West Germany in the 1988 final, making a significant contribution to the match. In a BBC Sport article Imran Sherwani was quoted: "When we got back to Heathrow Airport it was bizarre for a hockey player to walk out to hundreds of cheering people. You see it with rugby and football but not usually hockey." [1]
He also won silver with the England squad at the 1986 World Cup in London. [2] Sherwani was capped 45 times for Great Britain and 49 times for England. [3] [4]
Sherwani started his career at North Stafford Hockey Club. [2] He has also played club hockey for Stourport, [5] Stone[ citation needed ] and Leek. [1]
As well as coaching at Leek, [2] Sherwani has served as Director of Hockey at Denstone College in Staffordshire. [6] [7] [8]
Sherwani was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and is of Pakistani descent. Ever since he played in his first match at the age of 14, Sherwani dreamt of playing in the Olympic Games. His father played hockey for Pakistan and his great uncles played football for Stoke City and Port Vale. [2]
Sherwani worked as a policeman, but had to leave the Staffordshire Police force as his training programme became heavier, so to get by he became a newsagent like his father. [2] He later worked as an independent financial adviser. [2]
He also has links with Cannock Hockey Club, where his three sons played. [2] Sherwani was selected as one of the torchbearers for the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.[ citation needed ]
In June 2021, Sherwani revealed that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. [9]
Staffordshire is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the south-east, the West Midlands county and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Stoke-on-Trent; the county town is Stafford.
Leek is a market town and civil parish in the county of Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet. It is situated about 10 miles (16 km) north east of Stoke-on-Trent. It is an ancient borough and was granted its royal charter in 1214.
Stoke-on-Trent is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). In 2021, the city had an estimated population of 258,400. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove and Biddulph, which form a conurbation around the city.
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Great Wyrley is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It forms a built up area with nearby Cheslyn Hay, Churchbridge, Landywood and Little Wyrley. It lies 6 miles north of Walsall and a similar distance from Wolverhampton. Cannock is directly north of the village. It had a population of 11,060 at the 2011 census.
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The Staffordshire County Senior League is a football competition based in Staffordshire, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of the Midland League and the Staffordshire County League.
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