LAHORE, Jan 19: Twenty-one national hockey players will attend physical fitness camp at three different centres from Jan 22. The decision has been taken to keep the players fit before the training camp for the Olympics qualifying round in Madrid, Spain, in Feb-March.

The training camp begins after Eid-ul-Azha. Three centres where the physical training camps will be held are: National Hockey Stadium, Lahore; Defence Hockey Stadium, Karachi, and Gojra Hockey Stadium.

Salman Akbar, Ghazanfar Ali, Rehan Butt, Mudassir Ali Khan, Mohammad Shabbir, Waseem Ahmad, Mohammad Saqlain and Dilawar Hussain will attend camp in Lahore. Yousuf Baig will be instructor.

Shakeel Abbasi, Ahmad Alam, Zeeshan Ashraf, Asim Khan, Sohail Abbas, Kashif Jawwad, Sameer Hussain and Nasir Ahmad, will train in Karachi under instructor Qamar Ibraheem.

Assistant national coach Tahir Zaman will be instructor for the camp in Gojra where Saleem Khalid, Ali Raza, Mohammad Nadeem, Adnan Maqsood and Mohammad Qasim will train. They will disperse on Jan 31 for Eid and report for the national training camp at National Hockey Stadium.