Spain's Brasa named India's new coach
22 hours ago
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Jose Brasa of Spain has been appointed India's field hockey coach for a two-year term, a sports ministry official said on Friday.
Brasa, a senior International Hockey Federation (FIH) master coach, is better known for leading the Spanish women to the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
"Brasa will soon join the Indian men's hockey team as the chief coach," sports ministry official Pravir Krishna was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.
"An agreement between the Government of India and Brasa was signed recently in this regard for a two-year period till the Asian Games in 2010."
Brasa's appointment ends the upheaval created by the resignation of Joaquim Carvalho in March last year after the eight-time Olympic champions failed to qualify for the Beijing Games.
Australian hockey legend Ric Charlesworth worked briefly as the national team's technical adviser before returning home in July last year amid growing differences with Indian hockey officials.
Former Olympian Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, who was offered the job after Charlesworth's departure, preferred to continue with the Indian women's team to which he was contracted until 2010.
Interim appointee Harendra Singh coached India to victory in the Azlan Shah tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia last month, but is now expected to work alongside Brasa.
The Spaniard, who will be coach until the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China in November 2010, could see his contract extended to the 2012 London Olympics if he impresses Indian officials.
In the last decade are so it has become obvious tiny countries like Spain have all overtaken us, but IHF as a whole have gone down the gutter by appointing a Spainard. Had it been an Aussie, German or a Dutchman it would've looked more bearable but now the culture of our national game has taken a bigger hit, more spastic than England appointing Capello or BCCI going after Wright, Chappel, Kirsten etal.
22 hours ago
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Jose Brasa of Spain has been appointed India's field hockey coach for a two-year term, a sports ministry official said on Friday.
Brasa, a senior International Hockey Federation (FIH) master coach, is better known for leading the Spanish women to the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
"Brasa will soon join the Indian men's hockey team as the chief coach," sports ministry official Pravir Krishna was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.
"An agreement between the Government of India and Brasa was signed recently in this regard for a two-year period till the Asian Games in 2010."
Brasa's appointment ends the upheaval created by the resignation of Joaquim Carvalho in March last year after the eight-time Olympic champions failed to qualify for the Beijing Games.
Australian hockey legend Ric Charlesworth worked briefly as the national team's technical adviser before returning home in July last year amid growing differences with Indian hockey officials.
Former Olympian Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, who was offered the job after Charlesworth's departure, preferred to continue with the Indian women's team to which he was contracted until 2010.
Interim appointee Harendra Singh coached India to victory in the Azlan Shah tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia last month, but is now expected to work alongside Brasa.
The Spaniard, who will be coach until the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China in November 2010, could see his contract extended to the 2012 London Olympics if he impresses Indian officials.
In the last decade are so it has become obvious tiny countries like Spain have all overtaken us, but IHF as a whole have gone down the gutter by appointing a Spainard. Had it been an Aussie, German or a Dutchman it would've looked more bearable but now the culture of our national game has taken a bigger hit, more spastic than England appointing Capello or BCCI going after Wright, Chappel, Kirsten etal.