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Toeing the popular sentiment, Hockey India (HI) decided to appoint MK Kaushik (who guided India to Asian Games gold medal in 1998) as the head coach. Legendary Dutch player Roelant Oltmans, who is the high-performance director of the Indian team, is currently in-charge of the Indian team and Kaushik will assist him in a pursuit to revive Indian hockey's flagging fortunes.
In This Pic : Roelant Oltmans
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Indian hockey team captain, Sardar Singh, begs to differ from the popular sentiment and feels that the sport nowadays has changed by leaps and bounds and only a top foreign coach can meet the demands of modern hockey.
In This Pic : Sardar Singh
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"The (Indian) team should go in the right direction and in the long run, I feel we need someone like (Roelant) Oltmans to take the team forward," said Sardar.
In This Pic : Sardar Singh
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Sardar's perspective comes on the back of former Indian hockey coach Ric Charlesworth vociferously advocating the need of a foreign coach for the Indian team asserting that Indian coaches 'are not good enough to fulfill the requirements' of modern-day game.
In This Pic : Sardar Singh
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Oltmans took over as the high-performance director of the Indian team in January and Sardar quipped that better results are in store for Indian hockey.
In This Pic : Sardar Singh
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