The Indian women’s hockey team took a big step towards returning to top-tier competition by winning the FIH Nations Cup over the weekend but for coach Sjoerd Marijne, it is only one step on the long road to being a regular at the highest level.
Key Factors
We played a World Cup qualifier, we achieved our goal and qualified but we lost the final to England. You have to learn from things that don’t go well; like not winning that final. I think the team reached a higher level (in Nations Cup) than that final. “You always want to improve in every area. If I talk about this tournament, it’s mainly converting our chances into goals.
“Like I told the girls, it’s important to learn also to win. We create enough opportunities but we don’t make enough field goals, that’s something we need to keep working on,” he said. And I was happy with that,” Marijne admitted during an interaction with select media on Wednesday.
