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Viren Rasquinha

Personal information

Full name

Viren Wilfred Rasquinha

Born

13 September 1980 (age 44)
Maharashtra, India

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Playing position

Midfielder

Youth career

Bombay Republicans

Senior career

Years

Team

Air India

Maratha Warriors

2002–2008

Indian Oil

2007

HTC Stuttgarter Kickers

2012

Mumbai Marines

National team

Years

Team

Caps

Goals

2002–2008

India

180

Medal record

Men's field hockey

Representing India
Asian Games
	2002 Busan	Team
Asia Cup
	2003 Kuala Lumpur	Team
Afro-Asian Games
	2003 Hyderabad	Team
Junior World Cup
	2001 Hobart	Team

Viren Wilfred Rasquinha (born 13 September 1980) is an Indian former field hockey player and captain of the Indian national team. He was a member of the team that competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He quit international hockey in 2008 to pursue management studies at the age of 28.

Early life

Rasquinha was born in 1980 to Eric and Merlyn Rasquinha. He studied at St. Stanislaus High School in Bandra, Mumbai,^[1] then graduated with a B.Com from MMK College in Bandra. His father was an engineer, his mother, a doctor at the Bombay Municipal Corporation, and his brothers are engineers.^[2]

Hockey career

Rasquinha made his junior international debut in 1999, and was part of the team that won the 2001 Junior World Cup in Hobart, Australia.

He made his senior international debut as a midfielder in May 2002, at a Four Nation Tournament in Adelaide. He won a silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, gold medals at the Asia Cup in Kuala Lumpur and the Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad in 2003. He was part of the Olympic team which finished seventh in Athens in the 2004 Olympic Games.^[3]^[4] He led the Indian Hockey team for the first time in the bilateral series against Pakistan in 2004. He was also captain of the Premier Hockey League team Maratha Warriors, and played for Tata Sports, Air India, and the Indian Oil Corporation, as well as 180 international matches. Rasquinha announced his retirement from hockey on 15 January 2008 at the age of 28, to pursue his studies.^[5]

He said he was extremely disappointed with the sorry state of affairs of the national sports. ^[6]

Business career

After retiring from hockey, Rasquinha studied for a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.^[7] After completion of his MBA, he joined Olympic Gold Quest in 2009, and is now its CEO.^[8]

Along with Pullela Gopichand and Abhinav Bindra, he was a member of the PMO Task Force after the 2016 Rio Olympics that prepared India's plans for the Olympic Games in 2020, 2024 and 2028. Their report was submitted to the PMO on 12 August 2017.^[9]^[10]

Rasquinha was named as one of the "Top 40 Under 40" leaders in India for 2017-18 by the Economic Times.^[11]

Personal life

Rasquinha got married in 2013 to Smitha Nair.

Honours

2004, Shiv Chhatrapati Award from the Government of Maharashtra.
2005, Arjuna Award for Best Sportsman of the Year in Hockey.

References

^ "Viren Rasquinha Interview". Retrieved 12 June 2007.
^ Rasquinha, Viren (10 May 2020). "Mother's Day | Having a doctor at home helped: Viren Rasquinha". Sportstar. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
^ "No realistic hope for medal at Olympics". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of India. 16 June 2016.
^ "IIM-A students get lessons from hockey champ". hindustantimes.com. 29 November 2017.
^ "Viren Rasquinha on his retirement at 28". The Hindu. 29 December 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
^ "'Extremely Disappointed' Ex-IND Captain Exposes Sorry State Of Affairs Of Our National Sport". www.mensxp.com. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
^ "Olympian Quest". businesstoday.in. 30 April 2011.
^ "OLympic Gold Quest Management Team".
^ "Rasquinha in task force". Deccan Chronicle. 30 January 2017.
^ "Olympic Task force recommends". indianexpress.com. 25 February 2021.
^ "India's business leaders 2017". The Economic Times.

General

External links

Viren Rasquinha at Olympedia
Viren Rasquinha at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
Viren Rasquinha at bharatiyahockey.org
Viren Rasquinha at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

India squads

v t e India squad – 2002 Champions Trophy – 4th Place
1 Devesh Chauhan 2 Dilip Tirkey 3 Kanwaljit Singh 4 Sukhbir Singh Gill 5 Bimal Lakra 6 Ignace Tirkey 7 Jugraj Singh 8 Arjun Halappa 9 Dhanraj Pillay 10 Tejbir Singh 11 Gagan Ajit Singh 12 Viren Rasquinha 13 Daljit Singh Dhillon 14 Bharat Chettri 15 Dinesh Nayak 16 Deepak Thakur 17 Prabhjot Singh 18 Vikram Pillay Coach: Rajinder Singh

v t e India squad – 2002 Asian Games – Silver medal
1 Devesh Chauhan 2 Bharat Chettri 3 Dilip Tirkey 4 Jugraj Singh 5 Kamalpreet Singh 6 Dinesh Nayak 7 Viren Rasquinha 8 Vikram Pillay 9 Ignace Tirkey 10 Bimal Lakra 11 Dhanraj Pillay 12 Deepak Thakur 13 Prabhjot Singh 14 Daljit Singh Dhillon 15 Gagan Ajit Singh 16 Tejbir Singh

v t e India squad – 2003 Asia Cup – Champions (1st Title)
1 Devesh Chauhan 2 Kamaldeep Singh 3 Dilip Tirkey 4 Kanwalpreet Singh 5 Dinesh Nayak 6 Ignace Tirkey 7 Viren Rasquinha 8 Vikram Pillay 9 Bimal Lakra 10 Deedar Singh 11 Baljit Singh Saini 12 Dhanraj Pillay (c) 13 Gagan Ajit Singh 14 Prabhjot Singh 15 Tejbir Singh 16 Deepak Thakur 17 Sandeep Michael 18 Baljit Singh Dhillon Coach: Rajinder Singh Jr.

v t e India squad – 2004 Summer Olympics – 7th place
1 Chauhan 3 D. Tirkey (c) 4 S. Singh 6 I. Tirkey 7 P. Singh 8 Thakur 9 D. Pillay 10 Singh Dhillon 11 GA Singh 12 D'Souza 14 Xalco 18 Rasquinha 23 Halappa 24 Sinclair 25 H. Singh 27 V. Pillay Coach: Gerhard Rach

v t e India squad – 2006 World Cup – 11th place
1 Chettri (GK) 2 D. Tirkey (c) 3 K. Singh 4 Vakkaliga 6 P. Tirkey 9 G. A. Singh 10 Tejbir Singh 11 Nitin Kumar 12 D'Souza (GK) 15 R. Singh 16 S. Singh 18 Rasquinha 19 Gowdalli Hariprasad 21 Swamy 22 I. Tirkey 23 Halappa 27 V. Pillay 28 Khandker Coach: Baskaran

v t e India squad – 2006 Commonwealth Games – 6th place
1 Bharat Chettri (GK) 2 Thakur 3 K. Singh 4 San. Singh 5 Tejbir Singh 6 I. Tirkey (c) 10 P. Tirkey 11 Deedar Singh 12 Baljit Singh Dadwal (GK) 15 R. Singh 19 Sar. Singh 21 Rasquinha 23 Halappa 25 William Xalco 27 V. Pillay 28 Khandker Coach: Rajinder Singh

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