Indian Women’s Hockey coach Janneke Schopman’s Contract Unlikely to be Extended – News18

Indian ladies’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 yr for failing to provide outcomes, together with the aspect’s failure to qualify for the Paris Olympics.

Schopman, who was the analytical coach in Indian ladies 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 instructed PTI.

It is, nonetheless, learnt that Schopman is unlikely to get an extension.

The Dutch player-turned-coach’s finest consequence with the Indian workforce was the bronze medals that the aspect 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 aspect did not win the gold on the Asian Games, which might have instantly sealed its berth on the Paris Olympics.

Schopman and her aspect had one other probability to seal the Paris berth via the Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi in January this yr.

But there too they faltered, dropping to Japan within the bronze medal play-off with three prime groups from the event sealing their berths for the Paris Games.

In truth, Schopman’s relationship with Hockey India secretary normal Bholanath Singh soured after the Indian ladies did not make the Paris reduce via the Asian Games.

It grew to become dangerous to worse after her current outburst within the media following India’s final FIH Pro League sport at dwelling 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 essential of the differential remedy meted out to the ladies’s workforce in comparison with the boys’s aspect.

Hockey India, nonetheless, fully denied the allegations, stating that she was offered every thing that she wished.

“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 mentioned.

“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 increased wage at par with the boys’s workforce chief coach Craig Fulton and this was exactly the rationale 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 mentioned.

Schopman’s subsequent task with the Indian ladies’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)