Tata Steel launched Naval Tata Hockey Academy at the Indian Steel and Wire Products Sports Complex near Telco on Thursday. There are 25 boys who have made into the academy. Among the cadets, 19 are from Khunti, 4 from West Singhbhum and 3 from Seraikela-Kharsawan. The boys from Khunti are from feeder centres run by … Continue reading Tata Hockey Academy launched in Jamshedpur
Girls run barefoot, holding up their hockey sticks like swords. It’s an intense match under the blazing sun in a remote Jharkhand village They don’t have any uniforms, and many don’t have shoes or shin pads. After a lunch of dry, flattened rice, jaggery and soaked gram, they have come rushing to the dusty grounds … Continue reading A stick, a ball and a shot at life
Dutch hockey great Floris Bovelander tells Rutvick Mehta that with addition of solidity in defence to its unstructured & free-flowing hockey, India can be new standard of world hockey and can win medal at 2020 Tokyo Games. Excerpts from an exclusive interview You’ve seen Indian hockey from close quarters over the past few years. How … Continue reading India’s hockey is like its traffic
Dutch hockey legend Floris Jan Bovelander believes India should ready a batch of home grown coaches to take its National teams forward. Bovelander said India must develop several coaches with the understanding of international hockey. “I think (National men’s team coach) Roelant Oltmans is doing a great job. In the end, we should not stay … Continue reading Bovelander: “India close to winning a serious medal”
A cluster of hockey sticks, one of them made of wood, lean against rows of books in the airy room of Pratap Chandra Kumar, teacher-in-charge of Gamhariya’s Government Upgraded Middle School. “Now their interest is not just in academics; hockey is also taking up a lot of their time,†said Kumar, referring to his 139 … Continue reading Here, hockey means hope of a better life
Today is International Women’s Day. We are very proud of all the girls involved in our projects in India. ‘If you educate a man, you educate a person. If you educate a woman, you educate a family’.
“In India, you learn to play on artificial turf when you are 16 or 18 years old, by which time you have developed a certain style that is not suitable for the surface. This is the area of development that India and certain other Asian countries missed after the 1980s or the 1990s,†says the … Continue reading Bovelander: “India needs a good programme to get back on top”
This video gives you an impression of our work in Khunti, Jharkhand. For our project in Khunti we work together with our local partner CInI. Since our start in Khunti in May 2016 we now have educated over 60 coaches. That in their turn train the children. Nowadays about 4000 children are trained on a … Continue reading Impression of our work in Khunti
Anderhalf jaar geleden richtte Floris Jan Bovelander de organisatie One Million Hockey Legs op. Aan het doel om 500.000 kinderen in India te laten hockeyen wordt sindsdien met een heel team van vrijwilligers, NGO’s, lokale instanties en overheden hard gewerkt. En de eerste resultaten zijn veelbelovend, want in betrekkelijk korte tijd heeft One Million Hockey Legs … Continue reading “Bovelander proud of result One Million Hockey Legs in India”
The Trusts partners with Olympian Floris Jan Bovelander to establish TATA Hockey Academy and professionalise grass-root level hockey Aims to bring back the erstwhile glory of Indian field hockey through professionalising grass-root level hockey and bringing the global best to train domestic coaches. The project will cover 50,000 school boys and girls and it aims … Continue reading Tata Trusts to bring hockey to the center stage in India
