Craig Fulton.
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South African Craig Fulton has emerged as the shock front-runner to be the subsequent chief coach of the Indian males’s hockey crew. An official announcement of the identical is probably going within the subsequent couple of days.
Although not as well-known as a few of his contemporaries, the 48-year previous has a powerful teaching file.
Fulton, at present assistant coach with the Belgium, has been with the crew since May 2018 and was a part of the employees on the victorious 2018 World Cup in Bhubaneswar and the 2021 Olympics.
Prior to that, he coached the Irish nationwide crew for 4 years, serving to it qualify for the Rio Olympics — its first ever in over 100 years — and was named FIH Coach of the Year in 2015.
He was additionally assistant to present England coach Paul Revington whereas at Ireland and assisted the South African males’s and girls’s groups additionally.
As a participant, he earned 191 worldwide caps and was a part of the South African crew on the 1996 and 2004 Olympics.
Fulton will take over from Graham Reid who stop following India’s disappointing marketing campaign on the latest World Cup. He is probably going to be part of the facet after the Pro League video games later this month.
