Last Updated: February 19, 2024, 21:22 IST
Janneke Schopman’s contract ends in July-August. (PTI Photo)
Janneke Schopman’s finest outcome with the Indian workforce was the bronze medals that the facet received on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Indian girls’s hockey workforce chief coach Janneke Schopman’s days are numbered as she is unlikely to get an extension after her contract expires in July this 12 months for failing to provide outcomes, together with the facet’s failure to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
Schopman, who was the analytical coach in Indian girls workforce’s historic fourth-place end in Tokyo Olympics, took over the reins of the nationwide workforce after Spaniard Sjoerd Marijne’s departure simply after the quadrennial occasion.
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“Her contract ends in July-August (Till Paris Olympics). Let us see what happens, I can’t tell anything at this point of time,” a HI supply informed PTI.
It is, nevertheless, learnt that Schopman is unlikely to get an extension.
The Dutch player-turned-coach’s finest outcome with the Indian workforce was the bronze medals that the facet received on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
But barring that feat, Schopman has nothing extra to point out because the Savita Punia-led facet didn’t win the gold on the Asian Games, which might have straight sealed its berth on the Paris Olympics.
Schopman and her facet had one other likelihood to seal the Paris berth by the Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi in January this 12 months.
But there too they faltered, dropping to Japan within the bronze medal play-off with three prime groups from the match sealing their berths for the Paris Games.
In truth, Schopman’s relationship with Hockey India secretary normal Bholanath Singh soured after the Indian girls didn’t make the Paris lower by the Asian Games.
It grew to become unhealthy to worse after her current outburst within the media following India’s final FIH Pro League sport at residence towards USA, the place she claimed that she didn’t get the worth and respect from some quarters of the nationwide federation throughout her tenure right here.
Schopman, an Olympic gold medallist, additionally claimed that she felt “alone a lot in the last two years”, and was vital of the differential therapy meted out to the ladies’s workforce in comparison with the lads’s facet.
Hockey India, nevertheless, fully denied the allegations, stating that she was supplied all the pieces that she needed.
“I don’t know why she is saying these things. There is no discrimination in Hockey India. We treat both the men and women teams equally,” the HI supply stated.
“Neither Hockey India not SAI (Sports Authority of India) has treated her badly. We have always given due respect and recognition to her.”
According to sources, Schopman, 46, desires greater wage at par with the lads’s workforce chief coach Craig Fulton and this was exactly the explanation behind her current rant.
“To demand higher salary what matters is results. She has done well with the girls but recent results are not in her favour,” the supply stated.
Schopman’s subsequent project with the Indian girls’s workforce is the European leg of the FIH Pro League in May.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – PTI)
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