Columns about hockey
They say you always get what you deserve… Having witnessed the FIH congress last week I state: “we deserve better”! So last Saturday Narinder Batra got re-elected as president of the FIH with 63 votes vs 61 for his opponent Marc Coudron. A close race. Where some have openly questioned the addition of 3 countries […]
Coudron challenges Batra Marc Coudron launched his bid for the FIH presidency mid March 2021. For a long time it seemed Narinder Batra would run unopposed for reelection, before Coudron said he wanted a change. Which means the FIH global congress will have to make an important decision on May 22. Because, even though Coudron […]
A year ago, in November 2018, the FIH had its global congress. An event where several important decisions regarding the future of our sport were communicated. Also more or less a year ago we spoke with the “new” CEO of the FIH Thierry Weil, before the global congress on some my worries for the future […]
So it’s the middle of November. In Lausanne, Switzerland where the FIH is based first snow has arrived. But that did not stop FIH from launching a couple of press releases in recent days. Announcing some novelties following the meeting of their executive board last week. In today’s podcast & column here we will only […]
The European Championships played in Antwerp made it possible for me to talk to several interesting hockey people face to face for our podcast. So we made a mini series of 12 short (15-30 minutes) daily podcasts we called the EHCdaily. Below you’ll find some quotes from these that stuck with me, plus the link […]
Announced in March 2019, we will finally see a fair FIH global ranking as of next year. We discussed this major change for the better and some other changes announced in March with Jon Wyatt, sports director for the FIH in a podcast for Studio Hockey. Listen to this podcast here and fast forward to […]
The first edition of the FIH Pro League has declared its winners… and its losers! Thierry Weil, CEO for the FIH declared the first edition of his Pro League a success. Which resulted in a few giggles as well as grinding teeth around the world. To those who believe the FIH Pro League has potential […]
It seems to be the mantra for FIH president Batra in all of his endeavours: overpromising and underdelivering! We’ve seen it with the HIL (or Hockey India League) which was a great event, to the credit of Batra, but it did not last and has been cancelled after merely 5 seasons. We’ve seen it with […]
Thierry Weil dropped a small bomb last November in his very first FIH congress that has gone unnoticed mostly by hockey followers and -media. Speaking about the playing surface Weil announced basically two elements: He called upon suppliers for turf, ball and footwear to work together towards the goal of a dry artificial turf by […]
Sometimes you just have to kill the unicorn… before it kills you. No, do not fear… We haven’t gone off topic. We’re not doing fairytales, nor are we in the business of animal cruelty. A unicorn in this context has been defined by experts in innovation as one of these idea’s during a brainstorm session […]
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