BHUBANESWAR: Former India males’s hockey head trainer Roelant Oltmans has blamed the loss of tactical consciousness and a non-existent membership tradition for India’s early go out within the ongoing version of the FIH Men’s World Cup,
India misplaced the crossover fit to New Zealand and did not make the quarter-finals after happening 4-5 in unexpected dying.
India’s present head trainer Graham Reid had additionally voiced worry in regards to the loss of membership tradition after the Hockey India League (HIL) become defunct in 2017.
“There is no club culture in India, that is for sure. And the players need to continue playing games, that this team is lacking,” Oltmans, who was once on the helm of affairs of the Indian crew from 2015 to 2017, instructed PTI in an interview.
“These Indians are fantastic hockey players, no doubt about that. But you need to know what to do at which moment of the game. If all of a sudden, you are 11 against 10, what are you going to do?” added the Dutchman, who additionally served because the High Performance Director of Indian hockey from 2013 to 2015.
India have been not able to profit from the stipulations after New Zealand have been decreased to ten males within the crossover fit.
After New Zealand made it 3-3 within the fourth quarter, Nick Ross gained a yellow card within the 53rd minute and was once suspended for 5 mins. New Zealand defended doggedly to take the fit into penalty shootout after which unexpected dying.
“India had five minutes before the end of the match when a New Zealand player was out. What were India doing at such a moment? You need to play tactical games, execute them properly,” Oltmans, who was once India head trainer all the way through the 2016 Rio Olympics, he mentioned.
“The Germans scored two goals in three minutes (against England), that is the difference, that is something India still needs to work on.”
Oltmans was once shocked that India didn’t have a mental-conditioning trainer. The Dutchman mentioned {that a} psychologist was once with the crew on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Center in Bengaluru when he was once on the helm.
“Absolutely, it (having a mental-conditioning coach) makes a difference. When I was the head coach prior to the (Rio) Olympics, I had a psychologist in my staff. It is more or less the same as having a mental- conditioning coach.
“For the bodily a part of the sport, we’ve got bodily coaching, for tactical a part of the sport, we’ve got tactical coaching, for ability coaching we’ve got drag-flick running shoes. But the intellectual facet made a big distinction and there we shouldn’t have a major instructor. That’s bizarre,” said Oltmans.
He opined that captain Harmanpreet Singh shouldering too many responsibilities could have affected his performance in the World Cup. Harmanpreet struggled to score with his drag-flick, which is being blamed for India’s early exit.
“In a crew, you at all times know who your leaders are. Harmanpreet has been at the scene for the reason that 2016 Junior World Cup and now we’re speaking about 2023. Over the years, he has proven that he’s the most important participant,” Oltmans said. , explaining how Harmanpreet was given the leadership role.
“He (Harmanpreet) is main the protection and he’s the primary penalty-corner taker. We wish to give him such a lot duties on the identical time. I’m certain he has the qualities to steer the crew however having too many duties can impact him, despite the fact that I do know he’s an overly calm and comfortable participant in aggravating eventualities.”
Oltmans, who has also coached Pakistan, Malaysia and the Netherlands national teams, said that India must do more to find and groom talented players, an aspect which, he said, the country was lacking as compared to countries like Netherlands.
“You wish to broaden ability in each facet of the sport. Quite a couple of avid gamers from that junior World Cup-winning Indian facet are on this senior World Cup however (this is) now not sufficient.
“Players like Dipsan Tirkey, Harjeet Singh were there in that (junior) team. Where have they been; they are gone out of the system. I don’t see them any longer.
“Talent grooming is the most important phase as you want to arrange the following technology. Of direction, now not everyone will also be integrated within the nationwide crew. But we wish to be certain that that there’s a steady circulation of ability.”
The 68-year-old coach, however, warned other countries not to discount India for a 2024 Paris Olympics podium finish.
“They (India) have been at the podium in Tokyo, why can not they be there (in Paris)? There is sufficient ability on this nation. Make right kind plans, execute them correctly, use proper other folks and you are going to be there.”
He also welcomed the national federation’s plan to revive the Hockey India League (HIL).
“Absolutely, HIL might be in point of fact really useful for Indian hockey if it comes again. Not handiest the senior nationwide crew avid gamers, the juniors will even receive advantages. In that duration when the HIL was once there (until 2017), India received the junior World Cup in 2016 (Lucknow).
Oltmans isn’t too anxious about fewer penalty-corner targets being scored in the previous few years.
“Normally, PC conversion rate was about one in three and later one in four, that was alright. But, now, it is one in five or one in six, that is too low. We need to improve that again.
“If you don’t seem to be scoring penalty-corner targets out of your drag-flick, then you definately must exchange your mindset and notice what we will be able to do to attain. We might see extra targets within the subsequent main event.”
He said there is no harm in employing the old method of taking direct hits from PCs, rather than going for a drag-flick.
“We have observed that already, England scored from that (PC hit), even South Korea scored. So it may be drag-flick, hitting or diversifications, in line with scenario. In the tip, there are handiest 5 defenders, together with the goalkeeper . If you need, you’ll be able to put 10 attackers. So we will be able to take into accounts how we will be able to rating 50 p.c of penalty corners.”
India misplaced the crossover fit to New Zealand and did not make the quarter-finals after happening 4-5 in unexpected dying.
India’s present head trainer Graham Reid had additionally voiced worry in regards to the loss of membership tradition after the Hockey India League (HIL) become defunct in 2017.
“There is no club culture in India, that is for sure. And the players need to continue playing games, that this team is lacking,” Oltmans, who was once on the helm of affairs of the Indian crew from 2015 to 2017, instructed PTI in an interview.
“These Indians are fantastic hockey players, no doubt about that. But you need to know what to do at which moment of the game. If all of a sudden, you are 11 against 10, what are you going to do?” added the Dutchman, who additionally served because the High Performance Director of Indian hockey from 2013 to 2015.
India have been not able to profit from the stipulations after New Zealand have been decreased to ten males within the crossover fit.
After New Zealand made it 3-3 within the fourth quarter, Nick Ross gained a yellow card within the 53rd minute and was once suspended for 5 mins. New Zealand defended doggedly to take the fit into penalty shootout after which unexpected dying.
“India had five minutes before the end of the match when a New Zealand player was out. What were India doing at such a moment? You need to play tactical games, execute them properly,” Oltmans, who was once India head trainer all the way through the 2016 Rio Olympics, he mentioned.
“The Germans scored two goals in three minutes (against England), that is the difference, that is something India still needs to work on.”
Oltmans was once shocked that India didn’t have a mental-conditioning trainer. The Dutchman mentioned {that a} psychologist was once with the crew on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Center in Bengaluru when he was once on the helm.
“Absolutely, it (having a mental-conditioning coach) makes a difference. When I was the head coach prior to the (Rio) Olympics, I had a psychologist in my staff. It is more or less the same as having a mental- conditioning coach.
“For the bodily a part of the sport, we’ve got bodily coaching, for tactical a part of the sport, we’ve got tactical coaching, for ability coaching we’ve got drag-flick running shoes. But the intellectual facet made a big distinction and there we shouldn’t have a major instructor. That’s bizarre,” said Oltmans.
He opined that captain Harmanpreet Singh shouldering too many responsibilities could have affected his performance in the World Cup. Harmanpreet struggled to score with his drag-flick, which is being blamed for India’s early exit.
“In a crew, you at all times know who your leaders are. Harmanpreet has been at the scene for the reason that 2016 Junior World Cup and now we’re speaking about 2023. Over the years, he has proven that he’s the most important participant,” Oltmans said. , explaining how Harmanpreet was given the leadership role.
“He (Harmanpreet) is main the protection and he’s the primary penalty-corner taker. We wish to give him such a lot duties on the identical time. I’m certain he has the qualities to steer the crew however having too many duties can impact him, despite the fact that I do know he’s an overly calm and comfortable participant in aggravating eventualities.”
Oltmans, who has also coached Pakistan, Malaysia and the Netherlands national teams, said that India must do more to find and groom talented players, an aspect which, he said, the country was lacking as compared to countries like Netherlands.
“You wish to broaden ability in each facet of the sport. Quite a couple of avid gamers from that junior World Cup-winning Indian facet are on this senior World Cup however (this is) now not sufficient.
“Players like Dipsan Tirkey, Harjeet Singh were there in that (junior) team. Where have they been; they are gone out of the system. I don’t see them any longer.
“Talent grooming is the most important phase as you want to arrange the following technology. Of direction, now not everyone will also be integrated within the nationwide crew. But we wish to be certain that that there’s a steady circulation of ability.”
The 68-year-old coach, however, warned other countries not to discount India for a 2024 Paris Olympics podium finish.
“They (India) have been at the podium in Tokyo, why can not they be there (in Paris)? There is sufficient ability on this nation. Make right kind plans, execute them correctly, use proper other folks and you are going to be there.”
He also welcomed the national federation’s plan to revive the Hockey India League (HIL).
“Absolutely, HIL might be in point of fact really useful for Indian hockey if it comes again. Not handiest the senior nationwide crew avid gamers, the juniors will even receive advantages. In that duration when the HIL was once there (until 2017), India received the junior World Cup in 2016 (Lucknow).
Oltmans isn’t too anxious about fewer penalty-corner targets being scored in the previous few years.
“Normally, PC conversion rate was about one in three and later one in four, that was alright. But, now, it is one in five or one in six, that is too low. We need to improve that again.
“If you don’t seem to be scoring penalty-corner targets out of your drag-flick, then you definately must exchange your mindset and notice what we will be able to do to attain. We might see extra targets within the subsequent main event.”
He said there is no harm in employing the old method of taking direct hits from PCs, rather than going for a drag-flick.
“We have observed that already, England scored from that (PC hit), even South Korea scored. So it may be drag-flick, hitting or diversifications, in line with scenario. In the tip, there are handiest 5 defenders, together with the goalkeeper . If you need, you’ll be able to put 10 attackers. So we will be able to take into accounts how we will be able to rating 50 p.c of penalty corners.”