**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**Allow me to postpone my Rio review until the dust has settled and emotions are not (or less) in play. But maybe just two quick observations already before I will shortly discuss the new (FIH) ranking after the Games. First: please let’s forget the experiment of the blue pitch for future tournaments. It has no advantages […]
**Estimated reading time: 2 minutes**A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the world ranking as it’s being used by the FIH: “Change or kill the world ranking“. As you will have guessed I’m not a big fan of the current ranking system in use. The system currently used by the FIH takes into account invitational tournaments such […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**Some two years ago I wrote a first blog (My own world ranking) about my reservations with the way the current FIH global ranking is set up. This week week we were offered the newest release of still the same old ranking by the FIH. No real big surprises, as usual… but I still have some […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**Being a father to a player of the Dutch national team you can imagine I had a good weekend out in London. A year ago,after the WC, I wrote “Silver sucks“. This gold is great! However, it’s but a stepping stone to the ultimate goal… Gold in Rio! At least that is just my take […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**The Hero Hockey India League will start its third season in a couple of weeks. But its auction and the decision of players to join or not has been and is a topic of discussion long before the first whistle is blown. At least in both hockey countries I am most familiar with, The Netherlands […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**The rise of the Red Lions, the national team of Belgium in men’s hockey, in the world ranking is in itself a fascinating story. It triggered me to write several short columns already: Success has many fathers (in dutch only) – Confirmation is topsport – SWOT analysis of Belgian tophockey and many more… I think one […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**Today the FIH announced they would be taking away 10 minutes of our beloved game! Our game of hockey would no longer be played over 2x 35 minutes but will change into 4 quarters of 15 minutes… OK… I get the thing about the 4 quarters and most of us have gotten used to this […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**Everybody following international tophockey was very excited last year with the birth of the Hero Hockey India League (HIL) in India. A completely new concept for our sport based upon the immensely successful IPL in cricket. The concept is simple: 6 professional teams attached to a city or region all over India teams owned by […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**People don’t like change… hockeypeople are no different. Allthough… sometimes we seem to be the exception to the rule. Our sport has proven to be very innovative and not scared to change the rules to improve the game… and to abandon these changes if they do not work out. I love this! Let me suggest […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**Enkele Nederlandse topclubs zijn aan het brainstormen over een mogelijke nieuwe competitie opzet waarbij zelfs gedacht wordt aan een grensoverschrijdende Benelux competitie. Kortere, intensievere periodes van competitie. Meer spektakel op korte tijd! Rekening houdend met topspelers die over de hele wereld met nationale ploeg en diverse teams hun kunstje willen vertonen… Wij zijn terecht trots […]
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