It’s thoughts over matter for Hockey India because the sports activities physique employed famend South African psychological conditioning coach Paddy Upton to help the lads’s nationwide crew in the Paris Olympics.
Upton, who performed a job in India successful the 2011 Cricket World Cup, will probably be part of the help workers of the nation’s males’s hockey crew in Paris. He was additionally there when the crew received gold medals on the latest Asian Champions Trophy and Asian Games.
Indian males’s hockey crew chief coach Craig Fulton confirmed to PTI that Upton will probably be along with his wards on the Olympics.
“We have Paddy Upton, he will be with us in Australia (for the test series). We will be using him wisely. For sure he will be there for the Olympics with us,” Fulton stated when requested concerning the psychological conditioning coach’s companies.
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Fulton, who can be a South African, believes that world-ranked fourth India are nonetheless to attain their peak and there are many bases to cowl in the approaching months.
“We are not complete yet but, in 4-5 months from the Olympics, we will be there.
“Ideally any high-performing team wants to win any tournament. That’s the ideal goal to be realistic. But realistically, we are ranked fourth in the world now, does that mean podium ‘right now no’ but that’s the beauty of hockey,” he stated.
“Realistically, we are not there yet but we still have time.” The coach stated the Indian crew is at present in a improvement part.
“We are in a development phase with the squad. We are trying to create some depths in different positions. That’s important to do now because it really counts in crunch matches in the Olympics,” he stated.
Talking about India’s latest dwelling marketing campaign in the FIH Pro League, Fulton stated he was neither glad, not disillusioned.
“If you look at the four matches — 2 against Holland, 2 against Australia — I think we are disappointed with the second game against Australia, 5 minutes to go we were 2-1 up and then we made a mistake which got punished and then we lost the shoot-out,” he stated.
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“The first game was a strange one, we got to learn a lot of lessons there tactically, but to be 0-2 down after 90 seconds.
“But the Dutch games I feel we were really organised. But 2-2 I felt was fair result for both games. They are the league leaders and they are the team to chase at the moment.” Fulton is in no temper to make any drastic modifications in the type of play and stated the upcoming Australia tour holds nice significance for the aspect.
“Now we are in Bhubaneswar for the next three weeks for the training and then we go to Australia for five Test matches and that’s really important, and then we come back to Bengaluru and after selection is done, we leave for the Pro League.
“We are just carrying on with our training, we are focussed on becoming very strong defensively, we need to improve our offence. We are not changing a lot, just focussing on getting better and consistent,” he stated.
India are scheduled to tour Australia from April 2 to 15 for a five-Test sequence in Perth.
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