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Lomans, who might be coaching the Indian drag-flickers in a particular camp forward of the mega occasion, on Monday revealed his favourites for the event.
With simply three weeks to go for the beginning of the FIH Odisha Hockey Males’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela, Dutch drag-flick knowledgeable Bram Lomans has picked hosts India among the many favourites to win their second title so as to add to the one they bagged in 1975.
Australia, Belgium, Netherlands, India, Argentina, Germany, New Zealand, England, France, Korea, Malaysia, Spain, South Africa, Japan, Chile, and Wales are the 16 groups that might be competing within the event, which is ready to start on January 13.
Lomans, who might be coaching the Indian drag-flickers in a particular camp forward of the mega occasion, on Monday revealed his favourites for the event.
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“I believe if India can address the large stress, and if the gamers don’t get too excited, they’ve a very good likelihood to win. India have gotten good strikers, good corner-takers, and a very good goalkeeper. So that they have all of the components to go far,” the previous Netherlands worldwide stated.
“In the event that they get too excited or emotional, then it may well collapse. But when they will maintain their focus, then they’re one of many largest candidates, together with Australia. The Netherlands are additionally at all times good. They’ve improved so much up to now few tournaments, so I count on them to do properly. You even have Belgium, Argentina, and England are additionally doing moderately properly. So, there are a minimum of six-seven groups who could be on high. Will probably be extraordinarily attention-grabbing as a result of it’s tight and that’s what hockey wants,” Lomans added.
India are in Group D, alongside Spain, England, and Wales within the 16-team event.
Lomans, who’s credited with popularising drag-flicking within the late Nineties, is at present in India for a particular camp with the Indian males’s hockey crew on the SAI Centre in Bengaluru.
Lomans lauded Indian drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh and defined why he’s so profitable.
“Harmanpreet Singh has a relaxed perspective about him. He’s actually good as a result of he is aware of his strengths and his qualities and he simply goes for it. He doesn’t stress about it an excessive amount of when he’s taking a penalty nook, regardless that I’m positive the stress might be monumental on him. However he has that calmness round him that helps him get the job accomplished,” Lomans was quoted as saying by Hockey India in a launch on Monday.
The previous Dutch penalty nook specialist additional added that India have a robust pool of younger drag-flickers which is able to assist the crew on the FIH Odisha Hockey Males’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.
“The most important energy of the present Indian crew is that they’ve 4-5 actually good penalty nook takers who can rating. If all of them can chip in, it would take the stress off Harmanpreet Singh. The standard is excessive and I’m honoured I may help them out. There are additionally some actually good abilities on the U-21 camp, who can come up sooner or later,” he stated.
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