Allan Schofield
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26 January 1957 Munnar, Kerala, India[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1978–198? | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Allan Schofield (born 26 January, 1957) is a former Indian hockey player. He was part of the Indian hockey team that won the gold medal in 1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow.[3][4]
Schofield was born on 26 January 1957 in Munnar, Kerala, India, to George Schofield, an Irish tea planter and Grace Thomas, a Malayali from Kanjikkuzhi, Kottayam, as the fourth of their seven children.[1] His Family left the tea estate and moved to Bangalore where he completed his schooling from Cathedral High School in 1974. He then joined the Indian Navy in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1975.[2] He is also an MBA graduate and lives in Canada.[5]
