LAHORE, Feb 8: Trials to select Pakistan U-16 hockey team for the second Asia Cup will be held in three different cities from Feb 15 to 20.

The second edition of the tournament will be held in Singapore from April 4 to 7, which is also a qualifier for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in Nanjing, China in 2014.

First, the trials will be held in Peshawar on Feb 15 and 16, and then in Karachi on Feb 17 and 18.

In the last, the trials will be conducted in Lahore on Feb 19 and 20.

Olympian Tahir Zaman (PHF consultant), Ajmal Khan Lodhi (senior team coach), Danish Kaleem (junior team coach), Rana Zaheer Ahmad and Rehan Butt (U-16 team coaches) will conduct the trials.

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