~Magnificence Dung Dung and Sangita Kumari each homegrown champions consider the Ranchi hockey lovers will again their workforce~
New Delhi, 19 December 2025: Because the Ranchi Royals gear up for the second season of the Hero Girls’s Hockey India League (HIL) that will get underway on twenty eighth December, two younger stars from Jharkhand are buzzing with pleasure on the alternative of representing their residence franchise in their very own yard.
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Sangita Kumari and Magnificence Dung Dung made their India debut in 2021 and there was no trying again. The duo has represented their nation in main worldwide occasions with Sangita having scored 30 objectives, whereas Magnificence has contributed with 6 objectives. Now, the 2 are set to embark on a brand new journey with their residence franchise – Ranchi Royals within the Hero HIL.
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Eagerly awaiting the marketing campaign, Kumari, who was a part of the Indian workforce that gained a bronze medal on the Commonwealth Video games in 2022 mentioned, “It’s a proud feeling to play at my residence floor. It’s all the time a special day to play in Ranchi. Much more so now that I’m representing the Ranchi Royals. The viewers right here loves hockey and that makes it thrilling for the gamers as effectively. For me, personally, it’ll be further particular as a result of my household will come to look at the matches as effectively.”
Echoing these sentiments, Dung Dung additionally shared her enthusiasm to symbolize her residence franchise. “At any time when we play a sport in Ranchi, it’s all the time very crowded as a result of there are such a lot of hockey followers within the metropolis. It’s our residence floor, so we are going to do no matter it takes to win.”
The midfielder additionally highlighted the affect that Hero HIL is creating by giving younger gamers a platform to rub shoulders with among the greatest worldwide gamers on the planet.
“Generally, as juniors, you’re left questioning while you’ll get an opportunity to play for the senior workforce, however now this league offers junior gamers an opportunity to play with the highest gamers from across the globe. If we increase the requirements on the highest stage, the grassroots system is certain to observe.
Girls’s hockey is on the rise and we need to take it even additional. The Hero HIL is a good platform to do this, even for the juniors and the state gamers. It’s an excellent studying expertise for them – to look at and study, not solely from the ladies’s matches but in addition the lads’s video games,” Dung Dung reckoned.
Invaluable expertise to work together with prime overseas stars
The 2 gamers additionally make clear how priceless interactions from the worldwide gamers profit them in creating their sport. “There’s loads that we will study from the overseas gamers and there are issues they are going to study from us as effectively. So, we’ll decide their brains on some fundamentals and attempt to study new expertise,” mentioned Kumari.
“Initially, we’d be a bit scared however now we method the worldwide gamers with out a lot hesitation. When there are moments once we can’t execute a ability or convert an opportunity, we get irritated. So, we ask them for his or her recommendation and so they’re completely satisfied to share their options. In truth, in addition they ask questions typically,” her compatriot added.
Each gamers are thrilled on the prospect of sharing the sphere with Agustina Albertario and Agostina Alonso – two of Argentina’s effectively established gamers that gained the silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics in 2022 and the bronze medal on the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Sharing their mutual admiration for the 2 Argentine stars who might be a part of the Ranchi Royals, Kumari mentioned, “The Argentine gamers are available in with loads of expertise, particularly Agustina Albertario and Agostina Alonso. They’re nice gamers. I’m excited to share the dressing room with them and play alongside them.”
“They’re a bit older than us and have performed extra matches, in order that they have much more expertise. That’s one thing we will study from. The extra we work together with them, the higher it will likely be for us,” Dung Dung added.
With the likes of Sakshi Rana and Kanika Siwach of their aspect, Ranchi Royals have gifted younger Indian gamers that performed on the lately concluded Junior Girls’s World Cup in Chile. Sharing her recommendation for these younger gamers coming into the squad, Kumari emphasised on how they have to relish the sport. She mentioned, “For the younger gamers which might be coming into the squad, they need to hold doing what they’re doing and benefit from the sport. That’s a very powerful factor. My solely recommendation to them can be to again their approach and expertise, and provides it their greatest shot.”
The Hero Girls’s Hockey India League will start on twenty eighth December with the hosts Ranchi Royals taking up the SG Pipers.
All matches of the Hero Hockey India League might be broadcast dwell on Sony Sports activities Ten 1, Sony Sports activities Ten 3 and DD Sports activities. The matches can even be live-streamed on Waves and the Hockey India League YouTube channel.
