ONCHAN, Isle of Man, October 20, 2016 – Three members of Leicester City’s Premier League title winning team have swapped their football boots for hockey sticks as they took on Team GB hockey goalkeeper Maddie Hinch in the BetStars hockey shootout challenge.
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Danny Simpson, Marc Albrighton and Christian Fuchs were joined by two members of Team GB’s gold medal winning hockey team – Maddie Hinch and Helen Richardson-Walsh – who gave the trio a beginner’s guide to hockey, before hero keeper ‘Mad-dog’ Hinch challenged the players to a penalty shootout that put their new found skills to the test.
Each player was given three attempts to score past Hinch, who rose to national prominence with her star-studded performance at Rio 2016, when she saved all four penalties in the Final against the Netherlands. Albrighton succeeded where the Dutch failed, however, emerging victorious by scoring two of his attempts, with Fuchs and Simpson both managing to find the back-board on one occasion.