Gavin Ferreira is a former international

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player who resides in

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. He is an alumnus of St Anne's High School, Orlem and St Xavier's College, Mumbai. He has represented

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in various field hockey tournaments internationally including the

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where he was one of the highest goal scorers for the Indian hockey team. He has represented

118 times in International field hockey tournaments across the world and has scored 39 field goals. Because of his various achievements in domestic and international hockey, Gavin is a part of the hall of fame of the Mumbai Hockey Association. In 2007 Gavin coached the Indian hockey team in a miniaturised version of the game. This was a six-a-side hockey competition that was a part of the Indoor Asian Games held in Macau, China from 26 October – 3 November 2007. Gavin was an assistant coach to the

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hockey team for the 2012

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held in India in 2012. In 2015, Gavin organised a franchised based

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tournament called the Mumbai Rink Hockey League (MRHL) at

Gymkhana. The tournament ran from 1–5 December 2015. It was won by the Poisar Pirates and was hailed as success in the media.

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* Field hockey players from Maharashtra Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Living people Indian Roman Catholics Indian male field hockey players Year of birth missing (living people) Olympic field hockey players for India {{India-fieldhockey-bio-stub