Sonam Malik lost despite dominating the bout. Not a good start to our wrestling campaign
Match management skills or tactical skills were poor. She should have scored more points and killed of the match. She was the better wrestler but still somehow managed to lose the bout. She would have most probably lost in the next round but this was a winnable match for her.
So, are we over-crying the referee decisions or is there something seriously wrong with the referees? And if there IS a bias, then how should it be handled?
Regarding Hockey, it was an even match.Not a thrashing by any stretch of the imagination. Scoreline is flattering.
One thing which I have noticed on tactical front is that European teams don't high press us for the entire match(probably to conserve energy or they don't have energy). Something, Australia did for the whole match. Till then, our midfielders are okay(distribution wise).
However, when they implement the full press for the last 15 minutes,our midfielders find it difficult to hold onto the ball( this was eminent in both Britain match as well as today).
It is eminent for us to establish atleast a two goal lead and instead we should high press them( as our fitness is superior) before the high press comes in and hold on to the ball better.We need to be stronger on the ball.
Midfielders role is crucial, specially in a tense game(when to slow the tempo, when to a foul, when to pass etc) eases the pressure on the defence which ultimately leads to less mistakes from them.
This is what I was talking about earlier regarding selecting talents according to an elite benchmark & then training them. Seems like we tasted an unexpected but short-lived success in u19 volleyball after following such an approach:
No wonder, when the Indian
team in Thailand, with an average height of 6 ft 3 in as opposed to the 6
ft 7 in telegraph poles on the other side, beat world champs Brazil in a
preliminary match, their head coach Oncken Percy almost fell into a
courtside swoon. Who were these guys? Eight of the 12-man team in
Thailand is the result of an "experiment" called "Operation Gold"
thought up three years ago by the Sports Authority of India (SAI), led
by sports scientist Mohan Chaudhari.
The
project began with identifying 60 taller-than-average teenagers
(minimum height 6 ft 3 in), with basic athletic skill who were trained
for months at a go. Unlike teams in the past that drew most of its
players from the sport's rich tradition in the south, the current young
Indian squad has a larger participation from the north, because height
and not heritage had become a starting point.
I'm now hundred percent convinced that if we follow the same approach in every sport with a single-minded determination, we'd come up with a bagful of golds.
Humiliated by the performance in Rio, I even wrote an email to PMO around 2016 highlighting the approach. I got a bureaucratic response from the PMO that the email has been forwarded to the Sports Ministry and then nothing...
Most of the volleyball players learn the stuff in school college and the go for alternative career as Volleyball in India isn't a career option till now. Same goes for other sports too. Most of these athletes are from SAI centres. Until and unless people come from other places it won't make that much change.
Do we have an academy for every multi sports stadium that we have?
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Not a good start to our wrestling campaign
One thing which I have noticed on tactical front is that European teams don't high press us for the entire match(probably to conserve energy or they don't have energy). Something, Australia did for the whole match.
Till then, our midfielders are okay(distribution wise).
However, when they implement the full press for the last 15 minutes,our midfielders find it difficult to hold onto the ball( this was eminent in both Britain match as well as today).
It is eminent for us to establish atleast a two goal lead and instead we should high press them( as our fitness is superior) before the high press comes in and hold on to the ball better.We need to be stronger on the ball.
Midfielders role is crucial, specially in a tense game(when to slow the tempo, when to a foul, when to pass etc) eases the pressure on the defence which ultimately leads to less mistakes from them.
One last match guys, cmon chin up guys..
The project began with identifying 60 taller-than-average teenagers (minimum height 6 ft 3 in), with basic athletic skill who were trained for months at a go. Unlike teams in the past that drew most of its players from the sport's rich tradition in the south, the current young Indian squad has a larger participation from the north, because height and not heritage had become a starting point.
Humiliated by the performance in Rio, I even wrote an email to PMO around 2016 highlighting the approach. I got a bureaucratic response from the PMO that the email has been forwarded to the Sports Ministry and then nothing...
Do we have an academy for every multi sports stadium that we have?