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  • Hockey India to take former trainer Sjoerd Marijne to courtroom following accusations in opposition to Manpreet Singh

    Hockey India goes to take former trainer Sjoerd Marijne and publishing area Harper Collins India to courtroom. The transfer comes after the Dutchman accused Manpreet Singh of asking younger avid gamers to underperform all the way through the 2018 Commonwealth Video games.

    Hockey India to take prison motion in opposition to Marijne for fees in opposition to Manpreet (PTI)

    HIGHLIGHTSHockey India set to take prison motion in opposition to Marijne for fees in opposition to ManpreetMarijne accused Manpreet of asking younger avid gamers to underperform all the way through the 2018 CWGMarijne made those accusations in his upcoming guide

    Hockey India goes to take former trainer Sjoerd Marijne and publishing area Harper Collins India to courtroom. The transfer comes after the Dutchman accused Manpreet Singh of asking younger avid gamers to underperform all the way through the 2018 Commonwealth Video games.

    Marijne, in his upcoming guide ‘Will Energy – The Within Tale of the Unbelievable Turnaround in Indian Ladies’s Hockey’, accused Manpreet of asking a participant “to forestall enjoying smartly” in order that his buddies may just get within the workforce.

    This driven the Indian males’s and girls’s hockey groups to factor a joint observation, mentioning that Marijne leveled those accusations in opposition to Manpreet Singh to publicise his guide.

    “We’ve got come in combination to state our deep sadness in his (Marijne’s) exploitation of our private knowledge and false accusations. He has used his time of training us for business acquire to promote his guide at the price of our reputations. It is a whole breach of agree with and his accountability of care as a trainer. It additionally ends up in all Indian athletes like us feeling susceptible in such scenarios,” the avid gamers stated within the joint observation.

    Hockey India additionally mentioned that no such incident used to be reported by means of Marijne to both Hockey India or the Sports activities Authority of India.

    “We want to jointly query Mr Sjoerd Marijne, that if any of the claimed incidents happened beneath his watch there will have to be file of an allegation filed to Hockey India or the Sports activities Authority of India on the time. On checking with the government, now we have discovered no such file of grievance,” the observation learn.

    After all, the lads’s and girls’s nationwide groups showed that they might pursue prison motion in opposition to the 48-year-old.

    “We’re within the strategy of pursuing prison treatments in opposition to Mr. Sjoerd Marijne and the publishers of the guide in query, Harper Collins,” the observation additional stated.

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  • Indian hockey groups to take Sjoerd Marijne to courtroom for allegations in opposition to Manpreet Singh

    The Indian males’s and girls’s hockey groups are set to take former trainer Sjoerd Marijne and publishing space HarperColllins India to the courtroom following the Dutchman’s accusation that Manpreet Singh requested a tender participant to underperform all the way through the 2018 Commonwealth Video games.

    In his upcoming e-book ‘Will Energy – The Within Tale of the Implausible Turnaround in Indian Girls’s Hockey’, Marijne wrote that senior professional Manpreet requested a participant “to forestall taking part in smartly” in order that his buddies may just get within the workforce. It triggered the lads’s and girls’s groups to factor a joint observation, mentioning that the previous India trainer levelled the allegation in opposition to Manpreet to publicise his e-book. “We’ve come in combination to state our deep sadness in his (Marijne’s) exploitation of our private data and false accusations. He has used his time of training us for business achieve to promote his e-book at the price of our reputations.

    “It is a whole breach of agree with and his accountability of care as a trainer. It additionally ends up in all Indian athletes like us to really feel prone in such eventualities,” the gamers stated within the joint observation.

    “We’re within the technique of pursuing felony therapies in opposition to Mr. Sjoerd Marijne and the publishers of the e-book in query, Harper Collins.” Each the groups stated if such an incident had certainly taken position, Marijne will have to have reported the topic to both Hockey India or his erstwhile employer, Sports activities Authority of India, which he didn’t. “We want to jointly query Mr Sjoerd Marijne, that if any of the claimed prevalence happened beneath his watch there will have to be report of an allegation filed to Hockey India or the Sports activities Authority of India on the time.

    “On checking with the government, we’ve got discovered no such report of grievance,” the observation learn. The groups stated, via bringing such false and fabricated allegations, Marijne has wondered the integrity of the gamers. “The Indian nationwide males’s and girls’s hockey workforce stand at the side of every different and can protect our integrity that has been introduced to query via him.

    “Our nation, workforce and the game of hockey are our collective most sensible precedence and by no means can we permit for the integrity of any of our workforce individuals to be compromised for any person else’s private achieve,” the observation stated. Marijne coached the Indian males’s hockey workforce for 9 months ahead of he was once ousted following a gloomy display on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games at Gold Coast.

    He later took rate of the ladies’s workforce and guided it to a historical fourth-place end ultimately 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics. PTI attempted to touch Marijne for his response however he didn’t reply.

  • CWG 2022: Manpreet Singh vows to come back again more potent in opposition to Australia after 0-7 defeat – Would possibly not say they’re invincible

    Commonwelath Video games 2022: Indian skipper Manpreet Singh mentioned that his workforce will try to be informed from their errors after they subsequent face Australia in males’s hockey.

    Manpreet Singh of India. Courtesy: AP

    HIGHLIGHTSIndia misplaced 0-7 to Australia within the gold medal matchIndia gave away 5 objectives in an area of 18 minutesManpreet Singh additionally sustained a shoulder damage

    Indian skipper Manpreet Singh reckoned that the Australia males’s hockey workforce isn’t invincible by way of any stretch of the creativeness. On Monday, August 8, India misplaced 0-7 to the Aussies, led by way of Colin Batch, within the gold medal fit of the Commonwealth Video games 2022.

    India regarded out of varieties to a big extent as they conceded as many as 5 objectives within the house of 18 mins. Australia additionally received their 7th gold medal in a row on the CWG when they first completed on most sensible long ago in 1998.

    The 30-year-old Manpreet admitted that his workforce wasn’t on most sensible of its sport and made relatively a couple of errors. Alternatively, he vowed to make a comeback in opposition to the Aussies by way of making use of extra drive on their warring parties within the fits going ahead.

    “I may not say they’re an invincible workforce. Additionally they have XI avid gamers we too have XI avid gamers. It is who avails the chance wins the fit. However we made some errors and conceded simple ownership nowadays. We want to paintings on that. We will beat them if we play our absolute best,” Manpreet used to be quoted as pronouncing to PTI.

    “We want to put extra drive at the Aussies in upcoming tournaments. We’re going to watch those fits and we’re going to come again robust,” he mentioned.

    “It used to be now not our A-game nowadays and we saved conceding foolish objectives. We have now so much to be informed. No longer getting a PC is among the spaces we need to paintings on, distribute the ball neatly within the midfield,” Manpreet mentioned.

    Manpreet additionally talked concerning the damage that he sustained right through the second one quarter of the fit after an unpleasant collision with Aran Zalewski. After colliding together with his opponent, Manpreet used to be noticed keeping his left shoulder. “I am going for an X-ray however it is painful and turns out like a fracture,” Manpreet added.

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  • Manpreet Singh to guide full-strength staff as Hockey India publicizes squad for Commonwealth Video games 2022

    Hockey India on Monday named a full-strength males’s staff for the impending Commonwealth Video games. Manpreet Singh is again to guide the staff, and drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh has been named as his deputy.

    Whilst PR Sreejesh is a part of the full-strength 18-member squad, goalkeeper Suraj Karkera and forwards Shilanand Lakra and Sukhjeet Singh, who have been a part of the FIH Professional League, are lacking from the squad.

    Particularly, Hockey India had to begin with made up our minds to ship a second-string staff to the Commonwealth Video games as the point of interest used to be at the Asian Video games, which is a qualifier for the Paris Olympics in 2024. On the other hand, with the Asian Video games getting postponed because of Covid-19 considerations in host country China, the emphasis is on doing neatly on the Commonwealth Video games, beginning July 28.

    The Indian staff has been grouped in Pool B together with England, Canada, Wales and Ghana. The 2-time former silver medallists will start their marketing campaign on July 31 towards Ghana. India had completed fourth on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games in Gold Coast.

    Manpreet led the Indian staff to a ancient bronze medal on the Olympic Video games in Tokyo remaining 12 months and he’ll take over the reins from Amit Rohidas, who used to be the captain for the FIH Professional League excursion of Belgium and the Netherlands.

    CAMP IN BENGALURU BEFORE CWG

    “We now have long past with a tried-and-tested staff for the Commonwealth Video games. Those gamers have the enjoy of enjoying best groups in high-pressure video games within the FIH Professional League which used to be excellent publicity for us forward of the distinguished quadrennial tournament,” leader trainer Graham Reid stated.

    “After a short lived smash once we go back house from the Netherlands, we can resume camp in SAI, Bengaluru the place we can analyze our efficiency towards Belgium and Netherlands.

    “Whilst there are lots of takeaways from this day trip in FIH Professional League, there indisputably are a couple of spaces that we will give a boost to upon forward of the Commonwealth Video games.”

    INDIA MEN’S HOCKEY SQUAD FOR CWG 2022

    GOALKEEPERS: PR Sreejesh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak

    DEFENDERS: Varun Kumar, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh (VC), Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh.

    MIDFIELDERS: Manpreet Singh (C), Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Nilakanta Sharma

    FORWARDS: Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek.

  • We can check out new combos for Asian Video games at FIH Professional League: Manpreet

    Expecting tricky pageant on the Asian Video games this yr, Indian males’s hockey group captain Manpreet Singh says the FIH Professional League can be a great platform to check out out new combos for the big-ticket tournament in Hangzhou.

    Manpreet had led India to first Olympic medal in 41 years in Tokyo, the place the group gained a historical bronze.

    “Asian Video games will indisputably be the most important tournament for us this yr. Without a doubt the contest can be fairly tricky on the Asian Video games as all groups can be vying to make the Olympics reduce (via profitable gold),” he stated.

    Gold medal-winning nation on the Asian Video games, beginning September 10, routinely qualifies for the Olympics. India had gained a bronze within the Jakarta Video games in 2018.

    The FIH Professional League fits start in February and India will play the likes of Spain, Germany, Argentina and England in Bhubaneswar.

    “This yr goes to be fairly thrilling with back-to-back tournaments throughout the year. We start with FIH Professional League fits in February. After nearly two years, we can be returning to our favorite venue in Bhubaneswar the place we can play double-headers towards Spain, Germany, Argentina and England,” he stated.

    “The FIH Professional League will lend a hand us acquire some in reality just right fit enjoy forward of Asian Video games. Moreover, it’s going to give us nice alternative to check out out other combos forward of Asian Video games,” he stated in a Hockey India unlock.

    The avid gamers are set to file at SAI Bengaluru for the nationwide camp after a brief spoil following their Asian Champions Trophy time out in Dhaka.

    Manpreet stated the camp can be necessary to evaluate their performances from final yr and likewise plan for the yr forward.

    “It was once an excellent 10-day spoil for all folks, passing some high quality time with our households. I think we now have returned to the camp feeling mentally recent and able for the problem forward.

    “We can be assessing our performances in 2021 with the Leader Trainer and enhance personnel and we can additionally draw up a highway map for 2022,” added the midfielder.