After a bronze medal-winning campaign in the Tokyo Olympics, Indian Men’s Hockey Team will begin their National Coaching Camp on October 4, 2021 in SAI, Bengaluru. Hockey India named the 30-member core probable group for the camp which will take place after a gap of almost two months with an intent to improve their performance at Paris 2024.
Manpreet Singh led-squad ended the 41- year old long wait for an Olympic medal by defeating Germany 5-4 in the bronze medal match on August 5, 2021.
The core grouped called up for the National Coaching camp includes a mix of young and experienced players including P R Sreejesh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Suraj Karkera, Harmanpreet Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Gurinder Singh, Amit Rohidas, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Simranjeet Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Gursahibjit Singh, Shamsher Singh, Varun Kumar, Jarmanpreet Singh, Dipsan Tirkey, Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Jaskaran Singh, Rajkumar Pal, Gurjant Singh, Sumit, Shilanand Lakra, Suman Beck, Mandeep Mor, Ashis Kumar Topno.
Speaking about the upcoming national coaching camp, Chief Coach Graham Reid said, "The players are coming off a long and well-deserved break. I believe they will be excited to be back in the National Camp and refocus on our goals for next year. We will be going through our performance in the Olympics both from the perspective of individual performances and as a team,".
Coach Reid went on to tell his players to leave behind the success of Tokyo Games and start afresh ahead of the new season.
"Experiencing success in the Olympics is great but now I want the players to be mentally and physically ready for a hectic season in 2022 with some very important tournaments starting from the FIH Hockey Pro League in February. This camp will be more about strength and conditioning and we will look at making a slow start," he added.
