Pakistan Hockey team coach Ahmed Alam has said the main focus at the training camp commencing here at Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium of Pakistan Sports Complex from Oct 26 would be on technical aspects for the 16th Asian Games to be held in China.

Earlier, Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) selection committee summoned 22 players for the training camp but now it is augmented to 25 with the addition of Sohail Abbas, Khalid Bhatti and Abdul Qayyum Dogar. "We will be arriving at Islamabad on October 26," Ahmed Alam said.

"Technical training and confidence build up will be the main thing that we are going to focus on in the training camp and only those players will be considered for the squad who are in good shape completely. So there is no guarantee that all these players will be in the final squad," the coach told APP here on Saturday.

He said with the inclusion of three more players I am hopeful that the team's confidence and performance would increase further. "As three more players have been added in the squad which has raised the level of our expectations and we expect strenuous training in the camp," he added.

Alam said that an important aspect of the training camp is to build up team's lost confidence as is visible from the results of recently concluded Common Wealth Games. In order to perform well Pakistan hockey team would need to develop their confidence and should truly believe that they can be successful again, he said adding that the nation should shower all their best wishes and prayers for the team instead of criticising the team.

"By a positive and confident approach, united under a patronising leadership, a sports team can always improve its performance," he said and added, "It is true that Pakistan hockey is not where it was two decades back but regaining top position comes with a `never die spirit' and I am sure that they will be able to build up that in this camp," he added.

Pakistan's achievements in hockey since 1948 are splendid and without participation of green shirts in the international events, the tournaments are considered incomplete. Pakistan has won four World Cups, three Olympic gold medals, an equal number of Champions Trophy titles and Asia Cups.

The 25 players summoned for the camp are: Zeeshan Ashraf, Salman Akbar, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Irfan, Waseem Ahmad, Muhammad Rashid, Fareed Ahmad, Shafqat Rasool, Rehan Butt, Shakeel Abbasi, Abdul Haseem Khan, Muhammad Zubair, Waqas Sharif, Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Umar Bhutta, Imran Butt, Imran Shah, Muhammad Tauseeq, Waqas Akbar, Muhammad Rizwan, Syed Kashif Shah, Kashif Javed, Sohail Abbas, Khalid Bhatti and Kashif Javed.