Janneke Schopman’s future as Indian females’s hockey group coach depends on limbo

NEW DELHI: Indian females’s hockey group chief coach Janneke Schopman’s days are numbered as she is not likely to get an extension after her agreement ends in July this year for stopping working to produce outcomes, consisting of the side’s failure to get approved for the Paris Olympics. Schopman, who was the analytical coach in Indian ladies group’s historical fourth-place surface in Tokyo Olympics, took control of the reins of the nationwide group after Spaniard Sjoerd Marijne’s departure simply after the quadrennial occasion. “Her agreement ends in July-August (Till Paris Olympics). Let us see what occurs, I can’t inform anything at this moment of time,” a HI source informed PTI. It is, nevertheless, discovered that Schopman is not likely to get an extension. The Dutch player-turned-coach’s finest outcome with the Indian group was the bronze medals that the side won at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Disallowing that task, Schopman has absolutely nothing more to reveal as the Savita Punia-led side stopped working to win the gold at the Asian Games, which would have straight sealed its berth at the Paris Olympics. Schopman and her side had another possibility to seal the Paris berth through the Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi in January this year. There too they failed, losing to Japan in the bronze medal play-off with 3 leading groups from the competition sealing their berths for the Paris Games. Schopman’s relationsh
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