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India males’s hockey workforce (Pic Credit score: TW/TheHockeyIndia)
Hockey India is in talks with two to 3 potential international names after the place fell vacant following Australian Reid’s resignation after a joint ninth-place end on the FIH World Cup 2023
Argentine Max Caldas and Dutchman Siegfried Aikman are in rivalry to interchange Graham Reid as Indian males’s hockey workforce head coach after the latest World Cup debacle, sources in Hockey India mentioned.
In accordance with a HI supply, the federation is in talks with two to 3 potential international names after the place fell vacant following Australian Reid’s resignation after a joint ninth-place end on the FIH World Cup 2023.
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”We anticipated the workforce to boost its efficiency after the Tokyo Olympics bronze medal win but it surely all went downhill. Reid has accomplished a outstanding job and helped India win an Olympic medal however of late, the efficiency of the workforce dipped alarmingly,” the supply instructed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
”We’re in talks with 2-3 candidates however relaxation assured we are going to carry one of the best who can take India to the following stage.” It has been learnt that other than Caldas, Dutchman Aikman, who has not been paid for the final 10 months by Pakistan Hockey Federation is a critical contender to take up India job.
When queried if any Indian identify might be thought-about for the put up, he replied,” Please inform me who do you suppose is one of the best coach in India at present. Should you give us names, we will certainly think about them.” ”The Asian Video games is scheduled this 12 months and the Paris Olympics is subsequent so whoever comes must ship in each the occasions. We wish the workforce to be at its greatest in each the tournaments,” he added.
Australian Reid, who joined the nationwide workforce in April 2019, was a part of the Indian workforce that gained a historic bronze medal on the Tokyo Olympics and a silver medal on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games.
However he needed to give up after the host nation did not qualify for the quarterfinals of the World Cup, which concluded final month in Odisha.
Reid’s time period was until subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics, topic to overview after the World Cup.
Not simply Reid, his assist workers — analytical coach Greg Clarke and scientific advisor Mitchell David Pemberton too resigned together with him.
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