Sjoerd Marijne says being moved between India males’s and ladies’s hockey groups was disrespectful

Sjoerd Marijne led the Indian girls’s staff to their joint best-ever end on the Olympics with a string of outstanding leads to Tokyo and can now be leaving the setup with these reminiscences. However, he received a style of the instability that has plagued Indian hockey for many years in his first yr with the ladies’s staff.

The former Dutch participant got here to the nation to take over the Indian girls’s staff in 2017 however was appointed because the chief coach of the boys’s facet later that yr. In 2018, Marijne was re-designated as the ladies’s coach in a rejigging of roles with Junior World Cup-winning coach Harendra Singh taking cost of the boys’s facet.”Of course, I was not really happy with the transition. I was not really happy with what happened, the way it happened with the men’s team and I don’t think that was fairly respectful,” Marijne instructed PTI.Marijne stated that it was goalkeeper Savita Punia who gave him the reassurance that he was welcome on the girls’s staff. “But the moment I returned back to women, Savita (goalkeeper) came to my room and said ‘Listen, we are really happy you are back.’ That moment, for me was the changing moment. I felt okay, it’s good to be there again,” he stated.Marijne felt if given an extended time, he may have achieved rather a lot with the boys’s facet, which he stated is the “most challenging team in the world”.”But people shouldn’t misunderstand me. It was not that I was disappointed to go back to women’s team, I was not happy the way they handled it with men’s team because I left at a really good moment. On one side you have the opportunity to work with the most challenging team in the world in Indian men and on the other I was doing Indian women and we were just going up.”So it was a very troublesome choice and I’m completely satisfied the way it ended. I’m pleased with what I did with the ladies’s staff, so no grudges,” he said.Marijne said he is proud of the “legacy” that the women’s team created at the Tokyo Olympics. India reached the knockouts of an Olympics for the first time ever and they then did one better by beating gold medal favourites Australia to reach the semis.”I’m happy with what now we have achieved as a staff, the legacy now we have created. I’m extraordinarily completely satisfied for the ladies as a result of they now can really feel what it’s to have success,” Marijne said.He said that the way the team fought against Argentina in the semi-final and then Great Britain in the bronze medal match shows what the new Indian women’s hockey team is.”I’m happy with how shut we had been in matches in opposition to Great Britain and Argentina. It was not a walkover. The combating within the final match, coming again, it reveals the brand new Indian girls’s staff. They by no means gave up and it’s one thing that has modified over time. That’s an effort of the ladies and the entire employees. You want time for this type of issues,” he stated.