Sjoerd Marijne has been appointed as coach of the Indian girls’s hockey group for the third time. Marijne, who first coached the Indian women again in 2017, was subsequently moved to the lads’s camp following Roelant Oltmans’ departure. Regardless of guiding the lads to a gold-medal win within the 2017 Asia Cup and a bronze within the Hockey World League Finals, the Dutchman was moved again to the ladies’s group in Could 2018 after the lads did not register a podium end within the Commonwealth Video games.
Marijne delivered on the spot outcomes with the Indian women profitable silver within the Asian Champions Trophy a few weeks following his reappointment as girls’s coach. The Ladies in Blue narrowly missed out on a semifinal place within the 2018 FIH World Cup in London.
Marijne’s best second got here through the 2021 Tokyo Olympics when he guided the Rani Rampal-led aspect to a historic fourth-place end, however determined to return dwelling instantly after.
Janneke Schopman, who was the Analytical Coach throughout Marijne’s tenure, then took over the reins of the aspect. The Indian girls did not qualify for the Paris Olympics by way of the Olympic route following a 0-4 loss to China within the 2023 Asian Video games semifinal.
Schopman’s chargers have been additionally unable to qualify for Paris by the Olympic qualifiers, whereas additionally performing poorly within the FIH Professional League.
Harendra Singh, who took over as coach of the Indian girls’s hockey group after Janneke Schopman’s resignation, left beneath a cloud in December 2025 amid a number of allegations that emanated from inside the group.
“We sit up for a fruitful stint” – Hockey India President Dr Dilip Tirkey welcomes Sjoerd Marijne as coach of the Indian girls’s hockey group
Hockey India President, Dr Dilip Tirkey, has welcomed Sjoerd Marijne again into the ladies’s camp, stressing that the method was expedited by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities (MYAS) and the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) in mild of the World Cup qualifiers.
“We welcome Sjoerd Marijne, and your entire assist workers to the Indian Hockey household. We lengthen our gratitude to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities (MYAS) and Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) for expediting the appointment so as to make sure the group’s preparations for the upcoming World Cup Qualifiers shouldn’t be hampered,” he was quoted as saying by Hockey India
“Emphasis has been laid on health of the group which was one of many key causes for Indian Ladies’s historic efficiency in Tokyo. We sit up for a fruitful stint,” the HI President acknowledged.
Wayne Lombard, who had an enormous function to play within the group’s success throughout Marijne’s earlier stint as coach, may also be returning. As Scientific Advisor, the South African assisted the Indian women construct on their energy, health and stamina in no small measure.
Former Argentinian midfielder Matias Vila will help Sjoerd Marijne as Analytical Coach of the Indian girls’s hockey group.
The World Cup qualifiers are scheduled for March, which shall be adopted by the Asian Video games later within the yr. The Indian women may also be hoping to win the Nations Cup, which might allow them to re-enter the FIH Professional League
Edited by Subhashish Majumdar