Janneke Schopman Steps Down As Indian Girls’s Hockey Group Head Coach
Janneke Schopman joined the Indian staff as a technical analyst when Sjoerd Marijne was the chief coach. As soon as Marijne left, Schopman was elevated to the highest place.
New Delhi: India ladies’s hockey staff head coach Janneke Schopman resigned from her submit on Friday. The Dutch coach submitted her resignation to Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey after the conclusion of India’s outing within the residence leg of the FIH Hockey Professional League in Odisha. She had taken over the reigns from former Chief Coach Sjoerd Marine underneath whose tutelage India completed in a historic fourth place on the Tokyo Olympics.
Behind the frustration on the latest Olympic Qualifiers, her resignation has paved the way in which for Hockey India to search for an acceptable Chief Coach for the Girls’s Hockey Group who may put together the Indian Group for the subsequent Girls’s World Cup in 2026 and Los Angeles Olympics 2028.
Schopman’s writing was on the wall. Below her steerage, the Indian ladies’s hockey staff didn’t make the ultimate of the Olympic Qualifiers that have been held at residence in Ranchi, Notably, Schopman was among the many help employees when the Indian ladies’s hockey staff grabbed a historic fourth-place on the Tokyo Olympics.
Schopman joined the Indian hockey staff as a technical analyst whereas Sjoerd Marijne was on cost. Marijne left after the Tokyo Video games following which Schopman was given a promotion. It was underneath Schopman, former India captain Rani Rampal misplaced her spot within the nationwide staff regardless of being match and scoring in nationwide tournaments.
Schopman, who turned the primary feminine coach of an Indian hokey staff, had been at helm for two-and-a-half years. Earlier, she had complained of not being ‘valued’ and ‘revered’ by Hockey India. She additionally in contrast the therapy given to her by Hockey India compared to the lads’s head coach.
“Very onerous, very onerous. As a result of, , I come from a tradition the place ladies are revered and valued. I don’t really feel that right here,” Schopman was quoted as saying by Indian Categorical.
