**Estimated reading time: 6 minutes**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: Media and hockey followers heard only the second remark and translated this into “hockey can be played on natural grass again”. […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**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 […]
**Estimated reading time: 10 minutes**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 […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**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 […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**Giles Bonnet is an interesting coach to say the least. He introduced a pro attitude with the Belgian men back in the days, he worked with his homecountry South Africa, China and now the Canadian women. Floris Geerts from the Belgian Hockey Podcast spoke with him about his vision and ideas. The life of an […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**Jon Wyatt is the sports director for the FIH. He joins me, Ernst Baart, on our Studio Hockey podcast talking about some recent developments following a FIH board meeting in March of 2019. The end of the FIH Series, new qualification paths to the FIH World Cup & Olympics, more importance given to the continental […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**For those who speak English skip to 25:52 to hear our talk with Giles Bonnet and Kate Wright from Team Canada. The full interview with Giles & Kate – without interruptions in Dutch 😉 – will be published in a special episode some time next week. Want to see the crowdfunding campaign for the Canadian […]
**Estimated reading time: 9 minutes**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 […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**A monologue about Hockey5s. 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 […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**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 […]
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