Hero Honda will be he title sponsor for the 2010 hockey world cup to be held in Delhi in March next year. FIH president Leandro Negre said the deal is around 1 million dollar and the trophy will be named 'Hero Honda FIH World Cup 2010'.
World Cup is won by just 5 teams with Pakistan leading the pack with 4 and Netherlands following with 3. Last times champions Germany won two while India and Australia won once each. 12 teams will be in fray next year to win the 12 world cup next year.
Mr Negre said there is no concern on the security in India.
He also said the FIH is thinking of giving India and Pakistan wild card entry in the top level events becuse of their blazing past. However they will not get any ranking points for the wild card tournaments.
It seems a bit of money can bring India in the driver's seat of FIH like the case of ICC.
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