Hockey player taken ill at game dies

TRIBUTES have been paid to a hockey player who died after he collapsed during a game he was playing in alongside his son.

Kishor Solanki, who was in his early 50s, was taken ill during the game in York on Saturday. Attempts were made to resuscitate him, but he was later pronounced dead at York Hospital.

Mr Solanki was playing alongside one of his two teenage sons, Stefan, for City of York Hockey Club in the game against a Harrogate team when he collapsed shortly before half-time. The game was later abandoned.

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The City of York Hockey Club’s president, Clive Marshall, said: “Kishor was well-known not just in York but the surrounding area as he had been involved in playing hockey here since the mid-1970s.

“But he was not someone who simply turned up to play each Saturday; he was always willing to help with the admin side of things and developing the clubs he was involved in. It was a complete shock and our thoughts are with his family.”

A minute’s silence in memory of Mr Solanki, who also had an older son, Aaron, was held at two of the club’s games on Sunday.

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