“I feel it is the best time for me to look elsewhere. Knowledge is power and nothing learnt ever goes waste. It is very common in Europe for coaches and personnel to move between hockey and football since the two games are very similar in terms of tactics but it doesn’t happen in India,” Harendra confirmed on Sunday.
Germany is a prime example of it, with national hockey coaches Bernhard Peters and Markus Weise moving to football. Former Indian hockey coach Dutchman Roelant Oltmans was also the technical director of football back home before returning to hockey.
Hockey's loss may well be football's gain,” Prabhakaran said.
Few months ago, he was defending removal of Rupinder Pal Singh saying that he was impressed by running back in defense capability of Amit Rohidas.
Then he said that they have worked out indirect Penalty Corner routine so that India will not be hurt by absence of Rupinder in Penalty corner routine for world cup.
Now he is saying that he wanted Rupinder Pal Singh in the Team but Selection Committee did not listen to his request.
All contradictory statements.
20 years ago, he pushed useless Tamil Nadu players like Adam Sinclair, Thirumal balvan into the National Team resulting in big losses in major tournaments. All this to please IHF Secretary Jyothikumaran who was from Tamil Nadu
This time he promoted Lakra, Rohidas from Orissa into the team with disastrous result.
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“I feel it is the best time for me to look elsewhere. Knowledge is power and nothing learnt ever goes waste. It is very common in Europe for coaches and personnel to move between hockey and football since the two games are very similar in terms of tactics but it doesn’t happen in India,” Harendra confirmed on Sunday.
Germany is a prime example of it, with national hockey coaches Bernhard Peters and Markus Weise moving to football. Former Indian hockey coach Dutchman Roelant Oltmans was also the technical director of football back home before returning to hockey.
Hockey's loss may well be football's gain,” Prabhakaran said.
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