The Indian hockey group is wanting on the upcoming FIH Ladies’s Nations Cup to qualify for the subsequent season of Professional League, which in accordance with chief coach Janneke Schopman will present her facet high quality preparation for subsequent yr’s Asian Video games and 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 33 core group probables of the Indian ladies’s group assembled for a four-week nationwide camp on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) centre right here on Wednesday, following a two-week break after the Nationwide Video games.
The camp is focussed on getting ready the group for the FIH Ladies’s Nations Cup scheduled to be held in Valencia, Spain from December 10 to 17. The match is a vital fixture within the worldwide calendar because the champion group will probably be promoted to the Ladies’s Professional League’s 2023-2024 season.
“The following 4 weeks are fairly vital for us as we are going to undergo all of the features of our sport that should enhance earlier than we tackle these robust groups within the FIH Nations Cup,” Schopman mentioned in a Hockey India launch.
“It’ll actually be a difficult competitors as all groups will include a objective to qualify for the FIH Hockey Professional League by profitable this match.
“For us, a spot within the Professional League is important because it offers us nice publicity taking part in alongside among the prime groups on this planet as we put together for vital occasions like Asian Video games and Paris Olympics. The gamers very nicely perceive the significance of Nations Cup,” she added.
The choice trials for the FIH Nations Cup can even be held in the course of the nationwide camp.
Within the FIH Nations Cup, India are grouped in Pool B together with Canada, Japan and South Africa whereas Eire, Italy, Korea and Spain are in Pool A.
Indian ladies’s core group: Savita, Rajani Etimarpu, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Bansari Solanki, Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita, Ishika Chaudhary, Akshata Abaso Dhekale, Reet, Mahima Chaudhary, Nisha, Salima Tete, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Monika, Mariana Kujur, Sonika, Neha, Baljeet Kaur, Reena Khokar, Vaishali Phalke, Ajmina Kujur, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Vandana Katariya, Sharmila Devi, Deepika, Sangita Kumari, Rani, Magnificence Dungdung.
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