**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 🙂 – 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 rule¹.  But several were instrumental in making our game better. Think self-pass² 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 […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**A very special edition for Hockey5.TV aired live on 2017-03-27. Instead of top players we had a talk with two top administrators for our game of hockey. Jason McCracken is the newly appointed CEO of the FIH, the international hockey federation. Marc Coudron is the president of the Belgian federation and board member at the […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**So the battle has begun… the first of European federation presidents to speak publicly about the changes to the FIH calendar was Marc Coudron from Belgium. Yesterday he expressed in the Belgian newspaper La Libre some interesting statements. Fight Firstly, there is a “fight” within FIH between those who defend our European “club” hockey and those who could […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**The Hockey Revolution has begun! And because I consider myself a typical product of European hockey culture I’m torn between tradition and innovation. Afraid to see our beloved traditional club culture diminish and at the same time excited to see new possibilities for the game I love. But… as Julius Caesar would say “Alea iacta […]
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