Columns about hockey
**Estimated reading time: 2 minutes**Australia seems to have a thing for playing hockey with 9 players instead of 11. Can’t say I’m a big fan of these experiments. IMHO we’ve got two formats of the game : 11v11 and 6v6 or indoor hockey. These should do… The traditionalists will favour the 11v11 game. This is the Olympic sport we […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**It’s been a couple of months now since the new Hockey Pro League or HPL has been announced to start the revolution of hockey around the world. Not without certain upsets following it, as is to be expected from any change that wants to start a revolution. Today still, the new event has no sponsors […]
**Estimated reading time: 7 minutes**KISS is the way forward for hockey in my opinion. And of course KISS is is the acronym for Keep It Simple Stupid. Because it’s my opinion also we’ve been making things way too complicated these last years… Let me explain. In a previous post (To Batra or not Batra… that is the question) I […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**KISS is the way forward for hockey in my opinion. And of course KISS is is the acronym for Keep It Simple Stupid. Because it’s my opinion also we’ve been making things way too complicated these last years… Let me explain. First the boring stuff about the management of our game on federation level and […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**Australian journalist Ashely Morrison is once again the one breaking the news from FIH with an article entitled “Who’s left” on his sports blog Not the Footy Show. It talks about the administration and management of the game we all love and hold dear. And the breaking news he outs is that the FIH will […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**The HPL or Hockey Pro League will undoubtedly have its effect on the calendar for domestic leagues or as we call this in Europe “club hockey”. But with some common sense and good will we can get a long way. The following set-up would seem the most logical choice according to me: week 1-10 : […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**Dear India, There are no shortcuts to a lasting success in sport… or life for that matter. So please get your act together. The world of hockey does not need you… but we do want you to be a part of the success of our sport. Recently I wrote a piece about “What is happening […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**This Saturday marks the start of the European Championship. The EC is the 3rd major event in the world of hockey and one 3 titles every hockey player dreams of. With 6 countries from the global top 10 this event is right up there with the World Cup and the Olympic Games. Let’s talk about […]
**Estimated reading time: 7 minutes**Recently I talked about local hockey vs global hockey. Watching the HWL’s in London and Johannesburg I would like to share some of my take-aways from these events. The HWL’s are the qualification for next year’s world cup in Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India. With less than 500 days to go 9 teams have qualified already. But […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**The global ranking in any sport is something that should be beyond any doubt merit based, and only merit based. And the second “conditio sine qua non” is all countries/participants should get the same opportunities to earn points. No one should be excluded. I think we can all agree without these two conditions you can […]
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