India clinched the inaugural FIH Girls’s Country’s Cup identify with a 1-0 win over Spain within the summit conflict.
The win showed India’s berth within the 2023-24 Professional League. Gurjit Kaur scored the all-important function within the 6th
minute from the penalty nook because the Commonwealth Video games bronze medalists ended the eight-nation match with 5 wins at the trot.
Captain, chief, legend! An emotional @savitahockey discusses her crew’s heroic effort in profitable the inaugural #FIHNationsCup and qualifying for the 2023-24 season of the #FIHProLeague! @TheHockeyIndia %.twitter.com/nK97k8AJXa
— World Hockey Federation (@FIH_Hockey) December 17, 2022
The Janneke Schopman-coached aspect had crushed Eire 2-1 by way of a shootout within the semifinals. India have been ranked a place under Spain (7th) within the FIH chart. By way of distinctive feature of profitable the Countries Cup, the Indian crew has been promoted to the 2023-24 FIH Hockey Girls’s Professional League, a key tournament forward of subsequent 12 months’s Asian Video games and 2024 Paris Olympics.
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India and Spain had performed within the FIH girls’s Hockey Professional League 2021-22 season as substitute groups after pull-outs by means of Australia and New Zealand because of COVID-19-related problems. India had completed a creditable 3rd within the 2021-22 FIH Professional League. The rustic has no longer certified for the continued 2022-23 Professional League season.