Once again, Pakistan`s national hockey team lost the Champions Trophy miserably and also got itself out of the next year`s tournament scheduled to be held in Rotterdam. The team outplayed teams like that of Spain, but lost to minions like those of Malaysia and Britain. This has been the tradition of the Pakistani hockey team since their triumph in the Hockey World Cup (1994) in Sydney. Unless we have a competitive domestic structure to strengthen league hockey, like the one present in Europe and in India, we shouldn’t expect the national hockey team to win international trophies the way they used to before 1994. Besides this, the team seems to be confused about its frequent switchovers from the Asian-style to the European-style hockey practices. If we are serious in adopting the European style, the concept should be introduced at the grassroots level, and certainly not at the national level.