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The past couple of months our local partner and their team have worked hard to manage that the ground is smooth and ready to use. In December 2017 our Dutch coaches Ewout and Willem will visit the ground and the school it belongs to and train the local coach that One Million Hockey Legs has … Continue reading Hockey project Digantar

Floris Jan Bovelander, who played in the 80s and 90s when the straight hit was quite prevalent, is surprised with the low conversion rate from penalty corners in modern day hockey. Throughout their hour-long training session here on Monday afternoon, Spanish coach Frederic Soyez and his boys focused mainly on penalty shootouts. Some tried the … Continue reading ‘Drag-flick isn’t the only way to take penalty corner’

There was a time when the very idea of facing Floris Jan Bovelander during penalty corners would send shivers down the spine of defenders and goalkeepers. With shoulders built like rocks, the Dutchman hardly missed a drag-flick. The ball just flew like missiles once it left his stick. Nicknamed Boem Boem Bovelander, the 51-year-old pumped … Continue reading Indian coaches need to be developed: Bovelander

Sports for Youth Development In Punjab state, next to the Indian Pakistani border, young children are relatively often exposed to, and involved with drugs. Since one and a half year we run in cooperation with Navjeevan an after school hockey project in Jalandhar and Amritsar. Over time the project has grown steadily and today counts … Continue reading Sports for Youth Development

The International Day of Charity is observed annually on 5 September. It was declared by the Untied Nations General Asembly in 2012. The prime purpose of the International Day of Charity is to raise awareness and provide a common platform for charity related activities all over the world for individuals, charitable, philanthropic and volunteer organizations for their own purposes … Continue reading International Day of Charity

The National Sports Day in India is celebrated on 29 august every year. This day marks the birthday of Dhyan Chand, the hockey player who won gold medals in Olympics for India in the years 1928,1932 and 1936. He scored over 400 goals in his career,from 1926 to 1948. After putting his stamp on international hockey … Continue reading National Sports Day

After 1,5 year we are delighted to see the fruit of hard labor and efforts put in at every level to reach the opening. We are happy to announce that the Naval Tata Hockey Academy in Jamshedpur opened its doors on 13 July 2017. Twenty-five cadets from Khunti and West Singhbhum, Jharkhand state were welcomed. … Continue reading Opening Naval Tata Hockey Academy

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”