**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute** During the EHL of October 2023 in Barcelona I met up with Marcos Hofmann, newly elected president of EuroHockey. The interview with the title “You can not live in a permanent revolution” is published in the magazine from Hockey World News, episode 28, which was published today. It can be found here: https://studio.hockey/HWN28 Marcos Hofmann […]
**Estimated reading time: 11 minutes** Just before the start of the European Championships in August we will know the new president for the EHF, the European Hockey Federation. Either Peter Elders, a former umpire from The Netherlands or Marcos Hofmann, the president for Club Junior in Spain. On August 18 we will know who follows in the footsteps of Marijke […]
**Estimated reading time: 6 minutes** In November 2018 Thierry Weil, the then newly appointed CEO of the FIH, surprised the world of hockey. He announced the Games of Paris 2024 would be played on a surface that did not need any water. His main message was hockey can be played on any surface. A message I support with all of […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes** Today the administrators from 126 hockey countries (14 could not even be bothered) around the world voted in Tayyab Ikram as president of the FIH. As predicted… The reason is simple. The FIH has 140 members (= countries with national associations or NA). Each NA has 1 vote in the elections. Regardless if you represent an […]
**Estimated reading time: 15 minutes** Ahead of the very important FIH congress on November 4 & 5 of 2022 we brought together a couple of hockey people from around the world, from different walks of life and with different roles in our game of hockey. The idea was to ask them the same questions I asked the two candidates for […]
**Estimated reading time: 2 minutes** These next months might prove to be crucial for the future of our sport… While the fans still celebrate (or mourn) the Netherlands taking a 3rd world cup in a row in women’s hockey… For the more engaged follower of our sport the day after was marked by the resignation of Narinder Batra as FIH […]
**Estimated reading time: 6 minutes** In a round table organised by Studio Hockey on June 20 Thierry Weil, the CEO of the FIH and Angus Kirkland, CEO of the EHF, met with representatives of the top clubs in Europe. Clubs were feeling they were not heard by their own NA’s (national associations). They feel the international calendar makes it hard […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes** Sport is simple… You find a couple of friends and start playing together. If you do not have any friends you choose an individual sport. If you do have friends you like hanging out with, you get to play a teamsport. Maybe hockey? Lucky you 😉 The next step is you get bored of always […]
**Estimated reading time: 2 minutes** When last year mr. Batra got re-elected as the FIH president I wrote “We deserve better” with an open letter to the administrators of our sport. In it I wanted to make two points: The number 1 priority is getting more people to PLAY the sport, not WATCH the sport. Transparency & accountability in governing […]
**Estimated reading time: 8 minutes** Why we play hockey (or any sport) is a question that has many answers. It’s not only different because of where we live. Our “why” for playing hockey is different for many reasons. And for obvious reasons the different why’s also makes the “how we play hockey” is very different around the world. TL;DRWe are […]