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Major Dhyan Chand: the hockey wizard  Born on August 29, 1905, in Allahabad to Sharadha Singh and Sameshwar Singh - a soldier in the British Indian Army, Dhyan Singh was drawn towards hockey at a very early age. Like his father, he too enrolled himself in the army at the age of 16 and continued to play his favourite sport there. First noticed on the global stage during India’s first international tour in 1926 (to New Zealand), Dhyan Chand made his Olympic debut with the Indian hockey team at Amsterdam in 1928 and scored 14 goals route winning the gold medal. Dhyan Chand would win two more gold medals in consecutive Olympics at Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936, the latter as captain, to complete a hat-trick of Olympic golds and retire with an unbeaten Olympic record to his name. "The Olympic complex now has a magic show too." Headlines (in translation) in a leading Berlin newspaper after Dhyan Chand's 1st appearance in the Berlin Olympics. Major Dhyan Chand, th...