~Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Crew just lately concluded a promising outing on the 4 Nations Match in Rosario, Argentina~
New Delhi, seventh June 2025: The Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Crew is ready to proceed its worldwide marketing campaign with a five-match European tour from 8 to 17 June, the place they are going to tackle Belgium, Australia, and the Netherlands. The workforce, which just lately concluded a promising outing on the 4 Nations Match in Rosario, Argentina, has now reached Europe for the subsequent leg of worldwide publicity.
India will start the tour with three matches towards Belgium on the Hockey Heart of Excellence, Wilrijkse Plein, in Antwerp. They’ll then face Australia at Beerschot Tennis Hockey Padel Membership, in Kontich, earlier than wrapping up the tour with a match towards the Netherlands at Hockey Membership Kampong, in Utrecht.
In Argentina, the Indian facet delivered sturdy performances towards high quality opposition. They registered a 2-1 win and a 2-2 (2-3 SO) loss towards Chile, earned a 1-1 (2-0 SO) win and a 2-4 loss towards hosts Argentina, and defeated Uruguay twice — 3-2 and 2-2 (3-1 SO). The tour served as an essential step within the workforce’s preparations, providing worthwhile classes in dealing with high-pressure eventualities and adapting to completely different taking part in types.
Notably, these matches are additionally a key a part of India’s preparation for the FIH Hockey Girls’s Junior World Cup 2025, scheduled to happen in Santiago, Chile, in December 2025. Going through sturdy worldwide opponents in assorted circumstances will assist fine-tune the squad’s combos, construct match temperament, and instill the boldness required to carry out on the world stage.
Talking forward of the European tour, Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Crew Coach Tushar Khandker mentioned, “This prolonged tour is a superb alternative for our workforce. We had a worthwhile studying expertise in Argentina, and now shifting straight into matches towards Belgium, Australia, and the Netherlands will permit us to construct on that momentum. These are high-calibre groups that can check our tactical and technical depth, in addition to our consistency. For a lot of of those gamers, it is a important section of their improvement, and such excursions give them the type of publicity that may’t be replicated in coaching periods alone.”
“Most significantly, this tour performs an important function in our preparations for the FIH Hockey Girls’s Junior World Cup 2025 later this yr. Each match we play now helps us get one step nearer to being prepared for that problem,” he added.
