Your World of Champions, SuperSport is rearing to broadcast FIH Indoor World Cup video games with groups from South Africa and Namibia in motion.
01 February 2025 – The seventh version of the FIH Indoor World Cup kicks off in Croatia on Monday 03 February 2025 with Africa’s largest broadcaster poised to broadcast the sport for hockey-lovers continent-wide.
Referred to as one of the vital electrifying occasions within the sport as a consequence of fast-paced and skilful gamers who supply continuous action-packed matches, the FIH Indoor World Cup is a must-watch for any sports activities fanatic.
African hopes will lay firmly within the fingers of South Africa and Namibia. Each nations may have their males’s and ladies’s groups not simply taking part however competing.
South Africa opens its match when the ladies’s staff faces Thailand at 12:50, whereas the lads face Croatia at 21:50 on the opening day. SuperSport will present all of the matches stay on SuperSport Selection 2 (DStv Channel 207) in SA and SuperSport Africa 2 and Motion Africa within the Remainder of Africa.
The matches can even be streamed on DStv Stream and GOtv.
South Africa, having efficiently staged the showpiece occasion in 2023 received by double defending champions Austria within the males’s division and the Netherlands within the girls’s part, might be hoping to enhance on the sixth and 4th place finishes within the males’s and ladies’s divisions respectfully.
The format of this 12 months’s match is similar because the Rugby 7s on the Paris Olympics. Three (3) teams of 4 (4) nations with the highest two in every group plus the 2 greatest third-placed groups going by to the quarter-finals. There may be an added incentive as a high 6 end for an African staff earns the continent an extra spot on the 2029 Indoor World Cup.
Followers are assured top-tier motion when the match will get underway, stay on Your World of Champions, SuperSport.
“SuperSport prides itself in providing our viewers the most effective of all sports activities, and the FIH World Cup supplies us a possibility to platform the much-loved sport that’s hockey,” mentioned SuperSport CEO Rendani Ramovha.
“Typically extra recognised in the course of the Olympics in area hockey, it’s our intention to make it possible for a sport like indoor hockey will get the publicity it deserves. As a sport broadly performed within the South African college sporting programs, we’re sure this match will draw a lot fanfare and domesticate new heroes for our future champions.”
The South African contingent is way from wanting heroes for younger aspirant hockey gamers and lovers to get pleasure from in full flight.
The South African girls’s staff boasts Olympians, Kayla de Waal and Edith Molikoe.
Led by captain Jamie Southgate, the staff come into the match ranked sixth on the planet with Southgate’s expertise integral to their success.
Because the third most capped participant in South African hockey historical past, having not too long ago performed her one centesimal sport, she and her teammates might be hoping the highs of such a monumental achievement invigorate the staff to success.
The eighth world-ranked South African males’s staff is led by captain Dayaan Cassiem, alongside his headline-grabbing youthful brother Mustapha. Lauded for his tempo, talent and mesmeric type of play, Dayaan is the right foil for the goal-scoring machine that’s Mustapha. The latter enters this match as reigning World Junior Participant of the Match from the final version and has already notched up 101 objectives in simply 41 matches!
The expertise of Justin Domleo can even play a significant position if the trophy is to make its manner onto the African soil as this version in Croatia marks his fourth World Cup as he continues to interrupt data because the nation’s all-time capped chief within the males’s facet.
“From a format acquainted to considered one of our hottest sports activities, to the vested curiosity on account of South Africa and Namibia’s participation each within the males’s and ladies’s divisions, this 12 months’s version of the FIH World Cup completely encapsulates the sort of sporting motion SuperSport viewers are hungry for. We can’t wait to feed viewers clashes between the most effective of the most effective,” concluded Ramovha.
The stage is about for a pulsating match. The perfect indoor hockey groups are converging on Croatia and followers are sure to not miss a second of the motion courtesy of Your World of Champions, SuperSport.
For full fixtures and broadcast data go to SuperSport.com.
