{"id":551,"date":"2018-05-04T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=551"},"modified":"2021-05-20T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T05:34:14","slug":"len-aiyappa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/len-aiyappa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Len Aiyappa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1848 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/419781_396054237073694_314091166_n-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/419781_396054237073694_314091166_n-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/419781_396054237073694_314091166_n.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/ballachanda-okka\/\">Ballachanda<\/a> Len Aiyappa a famous Kodava <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/sportspersons-international\/\">sportsperson<\/a> (born 31 March 1979) is an&nbsp;Indian&nbsp;professional&nbsp;field <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/sportspersons-international\/\">hockey<\/a>&nbsp;player. He remained one of&nbsp;India&#8217;s&nbsp;best drag-flickers until he retired from the national team following a fallout with the&nbsp;Indian <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/sportspersons-international\/\">Hockey<\/a> Federation&nbsp;in 2006.He last played for India during the&nbsp;Sultan Azlan Shah Cup&nbsp;in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Aiyappa, playing for&nbsp;Karnataka Lions&nbsp;in the inaugural season of the&nbsp;World Series <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/sportspersons-international\/\">Hockey<\/a>&nbsp;became the top scorer for the team and third overall, scoring 13 goals in 12 games. He joined the team on the insistence of&nbsp;Dhanraj Pillay&nbsp;and the coach of Karnataka Lions, Jude Felix and scored a hat-trick in the game against&nbsp;Chandigarh Comets.<\/p>\n<h2>Clubs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BPCL<\/li>\n<li>Air India&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Telekom Malaysia HC<\/li>\n<li>Bangalore Hi-fliers<\/li>\n<li>Karnataka lions since 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>International&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Represented India in Sultan Azlan Shah Cup -Malaysia 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballachanda Len Aiyappa a famous Kodava sportsperson (born 31 March 1979) is an&nbsp;Indian&nbsp;professional&nbsp;field hockey&nbsp;player. He remained one of&nbsp;India&#8217;s&nbsp;best drag-flickers until he retired from the national team following a fallout with the&nbsp;Indian Hockey Federation&nbsp;in 2006.He last&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/len-aiyappa-2\/\" class=\"blink\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-people-kodava","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Len Aiyappa - Kodagu Heritage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/len-aiyappa-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Len Aiyappa - Kodagu Heritage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ballachanda Len Aiyappa a famous Kodava sportsperson (born 31 March 1979) is an&nbsp;Indian&nbsp;professional&nbsp;field hockey&nbsp;player. 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