New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Following their silver medal end within the ladies’s Asia Cup after a loss to China within the title conflict in Bihar, some members of the staff spoke on their learnings and flaws within the continental occasion and expressed that they may put together effectively for his or her qualifiers subsequent yr and study from their errors.
Indian ladies’s hockey skipper Salima Tete and forwards Navneet Kaur and Mumtaaz Khan, defender Udita Duhan and goalkeeper Bichu Devi spoke to the media following the conclusion of the ultimate of the senior ladies’s inter-department championship held within the nationwide capital on Saturday, during which Railways Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) emerged victorious over the IndianOil staff by 5-1.
Speaking to the media on Saturday, skipper Salima mentioned that whereas the staff is excellent and appears match, they must work effectively in direction of taking part in ultimately section. During the title conflict, they misplaced to China 4-1, conceding three targets within the second half and two targets within the last quarter.
‘As a captain, I wish to say that our staff is excellent. We are very match. You should have seen it within the matches. However, now we have to work extra ultimately section. Also, we didn’t have a drag-flicker. We have a camp ranging from twelfth October, and we can even put together for the Hockey India League, and after that, we are going to put together for our WC qualifiers. We can even work on our health,’ mentioned the captain.
Salima, who represented the Railways within the last, lauded the Indian males’s staff for his or her direct qualification to the 2026 Hockey World Cup with a 4-1 win over South Korea within the finals, saying, ‘Many congratulations to them. They will do even higher. They carried out very effectively within the Paris Olympics final yr, and we would like them to win all of the tournaments.’
Forward Mumtaaz and defender Udita, each IndianOil gamers, additionally spoke to ANI. While Mumtaaz highlighted that the staff must undertake a ‘by no means surrender’ mindset, Udita recommended China for being the higher staff from which the Indian staff learns loads.
Mumtaaz mentioned that throughout the Asia Cup, the staff solely had one aim: to win the gold and earn a direct World Cup qualification.
‘But we conceded targets within the last, and each time we concede targets, we simply surrender. We do not need to surrender. If our opponents are the perfect, so are we. We will strive our greatest in our coming matches,’ mentioned Mumtaaz.
She additionally lauded Salima’s captaincy, saying that she leads from the entrance and is on the market to everybody.
Mumtaaz expressed delight over the boys’s direct qualification for the World Cup, saying that despite the fact that the ladies’s staff has not received to win medals on the Olympics, seeing the boys’s staff get these Olympic medals in Tokyo and Paris and reaching the direct WC qualification makes them proud.
‘We at all times watch their matches. We really feel very proud that our boys are profitable medals. They are profitable back-to-back medals (within the Olympics). We are additionally making an attempt to win medals for our nation. Especially within the Olympics. But we’re actually comfortable to see them profitable medals,’ she added.
Udita spoke on the staff’s Asia Cup last loss to China, saying that they’re Paris Olympics silver medallists and a ‘higher staff’.
‘We get to study loads from them. We will give attention to the place we’re missing, attend our camp and give attention to WC qualification,’ she added.
Udita spoke on the inter-department event as a chance to study one thing and cross that on to the Indian camp.
‘You can study from wherever. I believe. In home, there are plenty of gamers. There continues to be plenty of distinction between home and worldwide degree. Many gamers are very skilful. How to deal with them? We get to study from them. If we take that data to the camp, it’s a profit for us,’ she added.
She additionally mentioned that as so many younger ladies attend academies and junior competitions, the senior staff must be ‘position fashions’ for them and be at their finest in these tournaments when they don’t seem to be sporting Indian colors.
Speaking on the success of the boys’s hockey staff and their direct qualification for the subsequent yr’s World Cup, Udita wished them luck and mentioned it’s the males’s staff which introduced hockey again to prominence.
‘It isn’t straightforward to win a medal on the Olympics, and so they certified for the WC immediately. I hope that they may win the World Cup. We study loads from them,’ she added.
Forward Navneet Kaur additionally hailed the success of the boys’s hockey staff, saying that the rise of the nation’s hockey feels good, irrespective of if success involves males’s or ladies’s.
‘When the boys’s staff or the ladies’s staff goes up, we really feel comfortable. We are very comfortable that our males’s staff is doing so effectively. We are at all times pleased with them. They at all times play so effectively and win medals for India,’ she mentioned to ANI.
Goalkeeper Bichu, whereas chatting with ANI, spoke on how staff India missed the presence of senior gamers, notably the drag-flicker Deepika and goalkeeper Savita, within the competitors.
‘We didn’t have any senior gamers; one or two gamers received injured, like Deepika, our drag flicker. Our essential plus level was that we may rating within the penalty nook. We had children. In the ultimate match, we noticed that we lacked expertise,’ she added.
On the Indian males’s staff’s direct qualification to the WC, Bichu was all reward, saying that whereas hockey was saved suppressed for lengthy, it’s the males’s staff’s consistency which has introduced each groups again to the limelight once more.
‘We are proud of their achievement. They are exhibiting the expansion of hockey. They are profitable medals within the Olympics. Our males’s staff have made each their very own and girls’s staff well-known. I wish to thank them,’ she concluded. (ANI)