~India will tackle China of their first match of the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24~
Bhubaneshwar, 2nd February 2024: The Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce, led by Savita and Vice Captained by Vandana Katariya, has turned their focus to the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24. India certified for the League after clinching the Gold medal on the FIH Hockey Girls’s Nations Cup Spain 2022. Of their maiden look within the FIH Hockey Professional League 2021/22, the workforce completed third behind Argentina and the Netherlands.
Chief Coach Janneke Schopman expressed her pleasure to be again within the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24, saying, “ It’s nice to be again in Odisha, everybody right here is supportive of hockey and we wish to do our greatest right here. Now we wish to present we’re a superb workforce and we are able to play in opposition to good groups as properly. We received’t get the Olympics again however we are able to solely look ahead, and that’s our plan, we wish to present that we are able to play hockey.”
The FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 (Girls) is scheduled to happen on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar from third to ninth February, earlier than transferring to the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, the place the league will proceed from twelfth to 18th February. 5 nationwide groups – India, China, america of America, the Netherlands, and Australia – will take part within the India leg of the FIH Professional League 2023/24, dealing with one another as soon as in Bhubaneswar and as soon as in Rourkela.
India will tackle reigning Asian Video games Champions China of their first recreation on third February, adopted by a conflict with the Netherlands on 4th February. They are going to face off in opposition to Australia on seventh February earlier than enjoying their final recreation in Bhubaneswar in opposition to america on ninth February.
“The FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 is thrilling as we now have the chance to see how we fare in opposition to a number of the greatest groups on the planet, just like the Netherlands and Australia, the thrilling factor is that we’re up in opposition to these groups and they don’t seem to be observe matches, it’s massively necessary for them earlier than the Olympics and it is going to be nice to take them on,” Janneke commented on the intention of the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce within the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24.
“I feel we are able to rating objectives and defend properly however we face good groups and it is going to be attention-grabbing to see the way it unfolds. We wish to present up right here, struggle onerous, and present our strengths. Each particular person has to carry their distinctive expertise to the desk. We wish to problem whoever we’re enjoying. Each different workforce right here goes to the Olympics, however I feel we are able to compete with them,” she signed off.
All matches of the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 will probably be streamed on JioCinema, moreover, all India matches will probably be telecast on Sports18 – Khel.
