The postponed FIH Girls’s Junior International Cup scheduled to be held in Potchefstroom, South Africa can be organised from April 2 to 13, the Global Hockey Federation stated on Monday.
On the other hand, the FIH and Hockey Belgium were compelled to cancel the 2022 Indoor Hockey International Cup.
The Indoor International Cup was once scheduled to be held in Liège, Belgium from February 2 to six.
The choices have been taken all through a digital assembly of the FIH.
The transfer to cancel the FIH Indoor International Cup was once made at the foundation of the present well being state of affairs in Belgium amid the COVID-19 pandemic and after in depth consultations and suggestions from all competent government within the nation.
The Girls’s Junior Phrase Cup, which was once to begin with scheduled to be performed in December final 12 months, needed to be put “on cling” because of the outbreak of the Omicron variant.
FIH Girls’s Junior International Cup to be performed in South Africa in April 2022. Sadly, the FIH Indoor Hockey International Cup is cancelled because of the present well being state of affairs and the uncertainties because of the evolution of the Omicron variant.
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“Because the postponement of this match, we’ve been in everlasting touch with the South African Hockey Affiliation.
“In accordance with the studies concerning the present evolution of the well being state of affairs within the nation, the EB has showed its determination from its December assembly, particularly that the event must be postponed, and no longer cancelled – and that South Africa must have precedence for webhosting it,” FIH CEO Thierry Weil stated in a commentary.
“We’re mindful that the brand new dates are difficult for some countries, particularly on account of Ramadan or the Ecu membership calendar, nevertheless it was once very important for FIH to completely reinforce the want of the athletes to play. We’re having a look ahead to an ideal match with hockey’s feminine emerging stars.”
The primary FIH Hockey Professional League suits of the 12 months, involving the ladies’s groups of China and India, will happen on January 31 and February 1 in Oman.
