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 […]
Once again the EHL lived up to its reputation… In Eindhoven the hockey family came together over the Easter weekend and celebrated our sport. Almost 15.000 visitors came and witnessed the best of club hockey live at the grounds of HC Oranje-Rood. Many more saw the games on their TV or online. Supporters from all […]
In 2013 the FIH gave birth to hockey’s own Frankenstein’s monster. Contrary to the monster created by dr. Frankenstein this one has a name. We call it Hockey5s. Very much parallel to the fictional character from book and movies, I’m convinced some of you will have grown to like the monster. As I’m sure the […]
Pakistan is out of the FIH Pro League! Against better judgement, I guess we were all still hoping the former giants of Asian hockey would rise again. But the game has moved on since last century. Even though the players are mostly still amateurs or semi-pro at best, even at the international top level. As […]
Mike Joyce, director at The Hockey Foundation and the FIH talks to us about Hockey2024, the newest global strategy for hockey development due to launch in 2019. The strategy has been presented at the recent FIH congress and will be officially launched in January of 2019. Check out the podcast to learn more about it from one […]
Let’s start by congratulating Belgium for their amazing progress resulting in a well earned silver at the Rio Games in 2016 and a first gold medal at the most recent World Cup. The secret to their success is a simple formula : a stronger domestic league + an ambitious long term plan/vision not just on […]
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