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Josiah Timothy Tinat
Josiah Timothy Tinat Abui (born 1985) is a Nigerian-Italian field hockey player who represented his country at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria, as a defender, with the Nigerian team coming 4th after losing to Ghana 2:1 in the 3rd place match. He again featured in the first Afro-Asian Games hosted in Hyderabad, India, still in October 2003. Career In 2007, Tinat moved to Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ..., Italy, to play for Cus Cagliari. While there, he became a strong support for the game in Sardinia. Literary work Tinat in 2016 authored a literary work on migration: * ''Perché migriamo'' (Why We Migrate) Personal life When Tinat arrived Cagliari, he met and married a Sardinian lady. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tinat, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper. Teams must move a hockey ball around a field by hitting it with a field hockey stick, hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal (sports), goal. The match is won by the team that scores the most goals. Matches are played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf, although grass has become increasingly rare as a playing surface. Indoor hockey is usually played on a synthetic hard court or hardwood sports flooring, and beach version is played on sand. The stick has evolved significantly over the game's history in its composition and shape. Wooden sticks, though once standard, have become increasingly uncommon as technological advancements have made synthetic materials cheaper. Today, sticks are typicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
