**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 […]
**Estimated reading time: 5 minutes** I was already working on another opinion piece on this website about where I think some of the priorities should be for those who govern our sport of hockey. But then I got taken by surprise, as most of you I’m sure, by the next episode in this soap opera Hockey India is putting on… […]
**Estimated reading time: 8 minutes** A post Olympic year, such as 2017, usually is rather uneventful. At least for those following our sport without really being immersed in it. For the few hockey followers tracking all aspects of our game and looking beyond their own backyard this year has been “interesting” to say the least. Because most recently the FIH […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes** We’ve had quite a lot of “innovation” – just another fancy word for change š – these last years in our favourite game of hockey. Some of these rule changes were not a big hit. Think for example the own goal ruleĀ¹. Ā But several were instrumental in making our game better. Think self-passĀ² or being […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes** FIH launched the Hockey Revolution some time ago and in recent blogs we talked about several of it’s components already. Last Monday we decided to talk directly to the new CEO of FIH, Jason McCracken and a president of one of the European federations, Marc Coudron from Belgium about this hockey revolution. Hockey5.TV is our […]
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