**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: 3 minutes** Chris Vercammen is niet meer… Vanochtend belde mijn zoon Sander met dit slechte nieuws en na een dag vol met andere zaken, want het leven gaat zoals steeds weer door, voelde ik toch de behoefte even in de pen te kruipen. Ik schreef al eens eerder columns zoals “Succes heeft vele vaders” over de bijdrage van […]
**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: 2 minutes** “Neither talent, nor potential wins titles” I wrote a couple of days ago when assessing the first week of the Red Lions at this World Cup. This Monday evening we learned the Red Lions came a long way but were not yet ready to take the next step, the step to the podium… There is […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes** One week has gone by already at this World Cup in The Hague and because we’re almost halfway and approaching fast the decisive games of this tournament it is as good a time as any to take stock and see where we stand… Allow me to take a somewhat critical stance towards our Red Lions […]
**Estimated reading time: 2 minutes** Almost a year ago I wrote a blog “My own world ranking” just before the European Cup played in Belgium. So today I’m risking it again to make my predictions for the World Cup known beforehand and publishing my own world ranking. Two different things all together of course because the world ranking is not always […]
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