Indian girls’s hockey workforce midfielder Neha Goyal believes the upcoming FIH Ladies’s Nation’s Cup will present them priceless sport time to hone their abilities.
Having completed a creditable fourth on the Tokyo Olympics after which returning with a bronze from the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, India wish to grow to be a potent power in girls’s hockey, and the inaugural Nation’s Cup might be step one in that route.
“The FIH Hockey Ladies’s Nations Cup 2022 will see us play some good groups and it’ll present us with sport time, for which there isn’t any substitute. Now we have been doing nicely in opposition to the massive groups constantly in recent times and in Spain, we are going to goal to do extra of the identical,” Neha mentioned in a Hockey India launch on Friday.
The match will likely be performed from December 11-17 in Valencia, Spain. India have been drawn in Pool B alongside Canada, Japan and South Africa within the match, whereas Pool A consists of Eire, hosts Spain, Italy and South Korea.
“We will’t take any workforce calmly. Every workforce could be very harmful in their very own manner and we should play our greatest hockey in order that the workforce can attain the ultimate rounds. Each match is a brand new day and the previous outcomes won’t have any consequence on the current,” Neha mentioned. India will start their marketing campaign in opposition to Canada after which play Japan earlier than ending their pool engagements in opposition to South Africa.
“These worldwide matches and the publicity convey us nose to nose with powerful conditions and we be taught to beat it and develop. It should solely assist the workforce grow to be an excellent closer-knit unit and that may undoubtedly assist us sooner or later,” Neha mentioned.