New Delhi, Jun 28 (PTI) Former India skipper and newly-appointed women’s junior hockey coach Tushar Khandker is looking to bury the ghosts of a disappointing 2008 Olympic Qualifiers in Santiago, Chile when he guides the side in the junior World Cup to be held in the same city later this year.

Khandker was part of the Indian men’s team which lost to Britain 0-2 in the Qualifiers in Santiago and failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in 80 years.

However, now Khandker, who has been appointed the national women’s junior team coach, has the opportunity to “convert those bitter memories into golden ones”. “I don’t want to relive those horrific memories of Chile and so never talk about it. But maybe I have got this chance to convert those bitter memories into golden ones.

“To heal those wounds which I got there 15 years ago and are still fresh,” Khandker told

Source: PTI News