Viren Rasquinha was a member of the team that competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
11 Facts About Viren Rasquinha
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Viren Rasquinha quit international hockey in 2008 to pursue management studies at the age of 28.
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Viren Rasquinha's father was an engineer, his mother, a doctor at the Bombay Municipal Corporation, and his brothers are engineers.
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Viren Rasquinha made his junior international debut in 1999, and was part of the team that won the 2001 Junior World Cup in Hobart, Australia.
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Viren Rasquinha made his senior international debut as a midfielder in May 2002, at a Four Nation Tournament in Adelaide.
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Viren Rasquinha 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.
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Viren Rasquinha was part of the Olympic team which finished seventh in Athens in the 2004 Olympic Games.
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Viren Rasquinha led the Indian Hockey team for the first time in the bilateral series against Pakistan in 2004.
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Viren Rasquinha was 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.
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Viren Rasquinha announced his retirement from hockey on 15 January 2008 at the age of 28, to pursue his studies.
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Viren Rasquinha said he was extremely disappointed with the sorry state of affairs of the national sports.