7 June 2015, New Delhi: With the Fintro FIH Hockey World League Semi-Finals just around the corner and the Indian Men team getting itself ready to the opening challenge of France, the team looks confident and high in morale for the upcoming tournament.
The team with an eye for a podium finish at the 2016 RIO Olympics, is taking every tournament from here as a learning ground to understand itself as a team and how do they deliver under pressure.
Speaking on the tournament and the challenges, Ramandeep Singh said “I am witnessing a new energy in the team in the recent past. We now look at challenges in a different manner, challenges we feel we can overcome easily. This I will credit to our recent performance plus the new skills we are inculcating in our game. These days we are working on our finishing once we enter the opponents D. The aim is to put the ball across the goal line and for which we are working on many variations between ourselves. The idea is, we should react immediately without wasting time”.
Speaking on Chief Coach Paul van Ass, he added “He is working on the team keeping the all important RIO Olympics. He is using the immediate tournaments to understand and work on the team accordingly in the next one year. He is very futuristic in his approach and this is creating a very positive and competitive scenario within all of us”
FIH Hockey World League Semi-Final is scheduled from 20th June - 05 July 2015. India will be seen clashing against France at 09:30 PM IST in their opening match of the tournament on 20 June 2015. The matches will be telecast LIVE on Star Sports.
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