China players in action during the ongoing hockey Asian Cup in Rajgir. Rajgir: China could not hope to create an Asian cup for a better remark, because last week at Rajgir Sports Complex, he almost held India on the draw in his opening tournament. With the mere game left in the Super4s phase, they can now get to the finals and even catch a ticket for the World Championship.Although the players were at least impressive, their support staff should be given a lot of credit that includes Michel van den Heuant, Roelant Oltmans and Anthony Farry.Although Farry was named the head coach of the tournament, it is Van den Heuvel, who called the shots, and he is the one who asked Oltmansa to join the 12 -member support staff, including the translator, for the tournament.“My good friend Michel called me to support him during this tournament. I have to say that this is a hard task because he is determined and the people who are determined can be hard.And together they began to wing the way to move the Chinese male national team to the top – as their female team, who won the silver at the Paris Olympics last year. But with so many coaches, it can sometimes be difficult. But for Farry, who is Australian, it was a huge experience in learning to work with two seasoned Dutch.“It is amazing to have the opportunity to learn from these people and listen to their philosophy and what they do and the different things,” said Farry, who was previously with the Indian female hockey team.And the most important part of the work in such an environment was clear communication. “I think we have open communication lines all the time. We are constantly talking about different things. We connect around different ideas and look at different things,” Australian added.
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Speaking of roles, the head coach decides who will oversee what, but also overlaps, and that is where clear communication makes the difference.As for this tournament, the team trained on Moqi hockey training base in Inner Mongolia – that eight players come – after they went there to Beijing and played there before coming to India.“Yeah, we just played internal matches. We didn’t have any training match. I worked with these boys for four weeks in China. So we are building a program for the future and that is the goal and learn (with) every game we play,” said coach Van den Heuuel.In addition to training in the field, they also worked on their physical aspects and it was still quite obvious. “The emphasis was great to make sure we were in the right position.One now has to wait and see if they reach the top of the stage with this planning and hard work. Although this happens, they seem to achieve a way to achieve some great results in the coming days.
