International Hockey Federation promoted Napoleon Singh as international Umpire

On 3 March 2016 The International Hockey Federation (FIH) promoted Hockey India national-level umpire Napoleon Singh as the International Outdoor Umpire.
•    The FIH took the decision after seeing his performance in the recently-concluded 12th South Asian Games 2016.
•    It was held at Guwahati from 5 to 16 February 2016.

•    Napoleon started his career as an umpire from Manipur in the third Hockey India Junior Women National Championship 2013 which got held at Ranchi, Jharkhand.
•    He was also appointed as umpire in the eighth Junior Men Asia Cup, held at Kuantan, Malaysia in 2015.
•    The 30 year-old Napoleon is among those young umpires from India who have recently been upgraded to international-level outdoor umpire. 
•    With Napoleon's promotion, a total of 14 Indian umpires  are now in the category of international-level umpires.
•    Out of those 14 10 are men, 4 are women.
•    He has been a national level hockey player and completed a diploma in Sports Coaching from the National Institute of Sports, Patiala in 2011. 
•    Currently he is presently working as a coach at Kokrajhar, Assam.