India women’s hockey coach Janneke Schopman resigns

India's girls's hockey crew coach Janneke Schopman has resigned from her place simply days after hitting out at Hockey India for preferential remedy meted out

India’s girls’s hockey crew coach Janneke Schopman has resigned from her place simply days after hitting out at Hockey India for preferential remedy meted out to the boys’s nationwide groups.

Janneke Schopman, whose tenure was to finish in August this 12 months, has despatched her resignation to Hockey India (HI)(PTI)

Schopman, whose tenure was to finish in August this 12 months, has despatched her resignation to Hockey India (HI), confirmed folks conscious of the event.

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“She made her intentions clear to HI that she doesn’t want to continue anymore and she has sent her resignation. In all likelihood, it is going to be accepted, ” mentioned an official within the know.

This brings down curtains to a bitter saga that began with the ladies’s crew not qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Indian crew misplaced two alternatives to qualify for Olympics, first on the Asian Games after which, on the FIH Olympic qualifiers at residence in Ranchi the place the crew went down 0-1 to Japan in third-fourth place match.

This led to a lot criticism of Schopman, who had taken over the reins from Dutchman Sjoerd Marijne after the crew had completed fourth on the Tokyo Olympics. Schopman was then the analytical coach.

Last week, Schopmam broke down throughout an interplay with the media within the combined zone after India’s Pro League match towards US, saying she would not really feel “valued and respected.”

“I felt alone a lot in the last two years, ” she had mentioned. “It has been very hard. Because, I come from a culture where women are respected and valued. I don’t feel that here.

The 46-year-old had further added: “I have a look at the distinction at how males’s coaches are handled between me and the boys’s coach, or the ladies and the boys’s crew, simply basically.”

Under Schopman, the Indian crew had a file of 38 wins in 74 matches. They additionally drew 17 and loss 19 matches. The gold medal within the Asian Champions Trophy was a excessive level however the failure to make the Olympics was in all probability the ultimate nail within the coffin.

Source: www.hindustantimes.com

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