Danish Mujtaba (born 20 December 1988 in

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

) is an Indian professional

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player. He made his debut for the

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in 2009. He represented India during the

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and the

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in Rio. He comes from a family of hockey players, including his grandfather Idris Ahmed, his uncle Atif Idris, his father Ghulam Mujtaba and his elder brother Hamza Mujtaba who have played for India. He first represented India at junior level, at the 2009 Junior World Cup. He played for the senior team at the

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and later went on to become Captain of national team in 2013. He is an alumnus of the

Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow is a residential sports college in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It offers sports training in football, hockey, wrestling, athletics, badminton, swimming and kabaddi in 6th to 12th standard and with the curr ...

and

Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia () is a central university located in New Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla in ...

Career

Mujtaba made his way to the national team after doing well at the junior level. He is a product of

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based Air India-SAI Hockey Academy which he joined in 2004 and has attended a training program at the

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.Profile
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(UPPCL) since January 2011.

Personal life

Mujtaba married Nayala of Allahabad in November 2016. Nayala completed

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from SHIATS. Her father Mohammad Gurfan is teacher by profession.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mujtaba, Danish Living people 1988 births Asian Games medalists in field hockey World Series Hockey players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of India Field hockey players at the 2010 Asian Games Field hockey players at the 2014 Asian Games Field hockey players from Uttar Pradesh Indian male field hockey players Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games bronze medalists for India Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow alumni Jamia Millia Islamia alumni Hockey India League players Delhi Waveriders players Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players