Enjoy this first views on what the new HIL could mean for India and the world of hockey. This is an AI generated podcast based on several news articles in information available up to October 6.

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The EHL KO16 in Surbiton delivered an exciting spectacle of European club hockey, showcasing exhilarating goals, nail-biting finishes, and impressive displays of skill.

Enjoy this short audio review, generated by AI from the different match reports.

More about this tournament here …

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The first panel talk from January 15 featured Mark Knowles 🇦🇺, Mo Fürste 🇩🇪, Bob de Voogd 🇳🇱 & Judith Vandermeiren 🇧🇪

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Video from our panel talk hosted by thehockeysite.com during the Women's World Cup hockey. Guest coaches on the panel were: Lucas Judge, Tsoanelo Pholo and Nacho Bergner. Hosted by Ernst Baart.

Recorded live on July 15, 2022.

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As the FIH Academy continues to make the most of online opportunities, the next exciting webinar aimed at hockey development across the globe focuses in on the game of indoor hockey.



Despite the cancellation of the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup due to the on-going pandemic, the Indoor Hockey Huddle is going full steam ahead.



Long recognised as both a thrilling format of the game and a place where real skill development can happen, indoor hockey is going from strength to strength in many parts of the world.



Among the many examples of indoor hockey initiatives are the Pro Series Indoor Hockey Franchise (PSI) in South Africa; Indoor Hockey UK in England; the massively popular Indoor Hockey Championships in the USA; and the club scene in European countries, with Complutense HC in Spain yet another European club that is developing the indoor game alongside its outdoor counterpart.



The Indoor Hockey Huddle gives a chance for participants to tune in and listen to an online debate featuring speakers from all of these examples. Moderated by journalist and founder of The Hockey Site Ernst Baart, the talk will provide both information and inspiration for anyone seeking to develop their own Indoor Hockey offering, whether in a school, club, state or national setting.



It is not just participation which will be at the focus of this discussion. The panelists, guided by Baart, will also examine how the sport, which is renowned for its atmospheric indoor conditions and vocal crowds, can make the most of its appeal to spectators.



Joining Baart will be Ross Willis, who is currently working with Hockey Ireland on its national indoor programme. Willis is an expert in developing the indoor game as he is tournament manager of PSI South Africa. This is a programme of tournaments, clinics and coaching sessions that has brought indoor hockey to more than 25,000 hockey players across South Africa.



Madeline Hoeppner is Director of Events at USA Field Hockey, where the annual National Indoor Tournament has age group competitions ranging from under 10 through to senior and masters players.



William Davey is operations director of Indoor Hockey UK, which is tapping into the appetite for indoor hockey at club and school level in the UK, and Nacho Usoz is Head Coach to the first team at Complutense HC in Madrid, where indoor hockey is developing alongside its outdoor counterpart.



Whatever your level of interest in this fast and exciting game, the webinar will provide ideas, inspiration and a heap of practical measures to introduce or develop indoor hockey in your own environment.

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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In this episode it’s all about the lessons learned from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Generated by AI and based upon two AMA sessions where we had coaches from all over the world ask their own questions of two coaches who were active in Paris. Katrina Powell, head coach for the women from Australia or Hockeyroos, as well as Shane McLeod from the coaching staff of the Belgian men’s team or Red Lions.

Resulting in a short podcast summary of these two very interesting masterclasses hosted by The Hockey Site, a platform where coaches #sharetheknowledge

The full masterclasses are available as video on demand here and here

A third similar session is also worth mentioning here though not included in this audio summary. The one with Jude Menezes from Japan:

All three masterclasses are also available in the XPS app. We recommend XPS for ambitious coaches, teams, clubs and academies.

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The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...

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The Bovelander Foundation uses sports, especially hockey, to support children, young adults and their communities in developing their personal, social, athletic and educational skills to improve the quality of their lives. Former Dutch international player Floris Jan Bovelander fell in love with India during his playing days. So when opportunity came knocking, he used his network and resources to set up the Bovelander Foundation to make a change. Together with Jaspreet Sahni, sports writer for The Times of India we talked about hockey, about India and of course the work of his foundation.
Our apologies for the chirping background noise sometimes. Remote recording sometimes creates extra problems :(





Episode 41 was recorded on 2020-11-05, produced by OSMpodcasts.com & published on 2020-11-09
Host: Ernst Baart & Jaspreet Sahni
Guest: Floris Jan Bovelander from the Bovelander Foundation
Podcast: Studio Hockey

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Nick Irvine.... not a lot of hockey fans will recognise the name. The voice however... :) When EHL started to transform our sport, Nick Irvine was the voice that complemented the revolutionary way our game was shown on TV. A decade down the road we know Nick Irvine as the voice of hockey.



"A game of hockey is also about theatre. And every time you go into the theatre you want to be surprised" is a quote by Nick Irvine from our talk with him. We spoke about the way he got started as a hockey commentator, the love of our game, the EHL, the players and teams who made an impression and lots more hockey. Today, Wednesday 2020-10-14, was supposed to be the day the Euro Hockey League would start. Unfortunately a vile virus is messing with our lives and our sport. We all recognise staying healthy is our first concern and playing/watching our sport comes second. But for those who miss our game of hockey, listening to the voice of hockey might offer a bit of consolation until we see better days again :)





Episode 40 was recorded on 2020-10-06, produced by OSMpodcasts.com & published on 2020-10-14
Host: Ernst Baart
Guest: Nick Irvine, sports commentator
Podcast: Studio Hockey

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Now that lockdown restrictions slowly get lifted in most parts of the world, hope returns our sport will be able to take back its place in our lives. But we have to be realistic... For a certain time it will not be as it was. 



I believe... I have to believe we will be able to sit alongside each other or stand shoulder to shoulder cheering for our clubs and teams in the near future once again. Face masks and social distancing will be temporary, but for now they're a fact of life



That doesn't mean we can not celebrate the small victories in the meantime. A return to training, all be it with certain restrictions. But also some of our top competitions and major events are being rescheduled. Tokyo 2020 will be hosted.... we hope... in the summer of 2021. The European Championship has been moved to June of 2021, a couple of weeks ahead of Tokyo. Our national associations are talking to their clubs about the best way for their country to resume or restart their domestic club leagues, the beating heart of hockey. 



And yes.... the EHL, possibly the best thing that happened to hockey since well.... the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 introduced hockey to artificial grass...The Euro Hockey League returns in October of 2020.



So we invited Marijke Fleuren, president of the European Hockey Federation to talk about how the current season, now on hold, will finish.What next season might bring us? What will happen to the integration of the women into the EHL? Can we expect some more of these great innovations, such as the self-pass, the EHL brought us?



But let' start with the all important question... or questions... Why does the EHL exist and does it have a future?





Episode 39 was recorded on 2020-05-26 & published on 2020-05-29 by OSMpodcasts.com.
Host: Ernst Baart
Guest: Marijke Fleuren, EHF president
Podcast: Studio Hockey

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Talking Tokyo is our 6-part podcast series ahead of Tokyo 2020 by Studio Hockey. We take 1 player from each team and match him up with an opponent from the opening game at the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games will start on July 24th... we hope. That’s why from now on every month on the 24th we’ll publish a new episode for Talking Tokyo.



In our second episode we have met up with Miki Delas from Spain and Lucas Vila from Argetina about their road to Tokyo.



Miki Delas, aged 35, is a Spanish defender from the mythical club FC Barcelona, mès que un club.... As Miki will explain in 2007 he made the difficult decision to leave his own club for Atletic Terrassa where he won 4 titles in 5 years before moving to Belgium where he played for another 5 years for Antwerp before returning to his beloved Barca.



Lucas Vila is an Argentina striker and a very creative player. Aged 33 he is now one of the experienced players in the team defending their gold medal in the next Olympics. Lucas played in his Argentina, in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany.



Both will play their 3rd Olympic Games in Tokyo.... we hope...





Episode 2 was recorded at 2020-03-23 and published at 2020-03-24.
Host: Ernst Baart
Podcast: Talking Tokyo by Studio Hockey
Produced by: OSMpodcasts.com

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Siegfried Aikman is an experienced Dutch coach with family roots in Suriname and India and for some years now the head coach for the Japanese men or Samurai. Now who says hockey isn't a global sport? ;)



We spoke for an hour about hockey, about coaching, Japan, the FIH Pro League and of course about the Games in Tokyo





Episode 37 was recorded on 2020-02-23 & published on 2020-03-05 by OSMpodcasts.com.
Host : Ernst Baart
Podcast: Studio Hockey

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Talking Tokyo is our 6-part podcast series ahead of Tokyo 2020 by Studio Hockey. We take 1 player from each team and match him up with an opponent from the opening game at the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games will start on July 24th. That's why from now on every month on the 24th we'll publish a new episode for Talking Tokyo.



In our first episode we have met up with Adam Dixon from Great Britain and Austin Smith from South Africa talking about their road to Tokyo.



Adam Dixon, aged 33,  captains the GB squad. Originally from Beeston he also played a year at Rotterdam in the Dutch Hoofdklasse before returning to Beeston in England. He played 3 World Cups and Tokyo will be his 2nd Olympic Games.



Austin Smith is a defender, aged 34, who made his debut for South Africa when he was just 18. After a couple of years at Reading in England he now plays his club hockey for Den Bosch in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. He played 3 World Cups between 2010 and 2018 and Tokyo will be his 3rd Olympic Games.





Episode 1 was recorded at 2020-02-21 and published at 2020-02-24.
Host: Ernst Baart
Podcast: Talking Tokyo by Studio Hockey
Produced by: OSMpodcasts.com

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Colin Batch, coach of Australia & Shane McLeod, coach of Belgium are the guests in this podcast. The coaches of the current first and second team in the world ranking. The finalists of last years maiden edition of the FIH Pro League and the two biggest favourites for gold in Tokyo.



With the FIH Pro League, season 2, starting this weekend we thought it was nice to talk with these topcoaches about the FIH Pro League and obviously about the number one priority for all this year: Tokyo! Of course these two teams will also be each others first opponent in the new FIH Pro League when they meet twice in Sydney next week.



Shane McLeod had to rush back to his hotel after a training with the Red Lions, currently in Sydney, so he joins in a little bit later in the podcast after some 10 minutes or so.





Episode 35 was recorded on 2020-01-13 & published on 2020-01-17 by OSMpodcasts.com.
Host : Ernst Baart
Podcast: Studio Hockey

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A year ago, in November 2018, the FIH had its global congress. An event where several important decisions regarding the future of our sport were communicated. Also more or less a year ago we spoke with the "new" CEO of the FIH Thierry Weil, before the global congress on some my worries for the future of our sport. Following the global congress a year ago we had a talk with Mike Joyce, director of development for the FIH about the Hockey2024 plan that was about to launch.
So today, more or less a year down the road, with the end of 2019 in sight, we thought it would be good to have another talk with these two administrators from FIH about the plans launched in 2018 and what has been accomplished since then in 2019 or will be in 2020. We defined 10 topics to discuss with them:



FIH Pro LeagueFIH QualifiersTokyo 2020A dry artificial pitchThe FIH.live platformHockey2024Growing hockeyLA 2028One short format of hockeyDo all stakeholders have a voice?



Please note this column is not an exact transcript (far from it) of the podcast. I do recommend both reading the full column as well as listening the full podcast... ;)



FIH Pro League



2019 has been the year of the launch of the FIH Pro League more than anything else probably. At least in terms of visibility on a global scale.
FIH felt it was very important to give a boost to the promotion of hockey around the world. When they spoke to broadcasters their major issue with our sport was the lack of a fixed calendar, a time of year when broadcasters were assured of enough international games to schedule in their programming. So the wish from broadcasters for a more consistent hockey calendar has been fulfilled. The major learning from this first year of the FIH Pro League has been the home & away games in the current schedule were too much of a stress on the health of players. So the 2nd year will see an important change with double home games for some opponents this year followed by double away games for the same the next year. This means travel is cut in half which is not only better for our environmental footprint but especially will be less of a strain on player health. Feedback from coaches and players, according to Weil, was very positive. But obviously some changes were needed going into year two. The change of schedule for player welfare but also a change in the production of these events for TV. More uniformity in showing a recognisable format of the game on TV. Another issue in year 1 has been the lack of supporters in the stands in some countries. A fact Weil blames on the short preparation time between the final green light and the first Pro League games. Not allowing enough time for some good marketing of these events to draw in the crowds. This time however there is enough time for the marketeers in each country to work on a good ticketing plan and promotion of their home games. For example in Germany this time the marketing agency that was in charge for the very successful indoor world cup will make sure the German hockey supporters will not miss out on their home games again, according to Weil. Financially it's clear this first year has been an investment. A much needed investment in the promotion of hockey. But another equally important goal is to create revenue and profit for the FIH to use for the development of hockey around the world. Because in order to grow hockey, more money is needed. So obviously a business plan for this event at some point in time will need to show profits to be able to do more for growing our game of hockey. Though Weil states he would also be happy with a break even and more promotion of our sport, the business plan by the FIH assumes a profit will be generated to help develop hockey as of 2022 or 2023 at the latest.



Still, even if I consider myself a big fan of top international hockey & the FIH Pro League... I will be curious to see a full evaluation by 2023-2024 to see how much money not only the FIH has invested i

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So it's the middle of November. In Lausanne, Switzerland where the FIH is based first snow has arrived. But that did not stop FIH from launching a couple of press releases in recent days. Announcing some novelties following the meeting of their executive board last week.



In today's podcast & column here we will only be addressing two of these. So the first ever world cup to be held in two different countries will not be on today's agenda. Nor the controversial choice for Bhubaneswar for the men's world cup, meaning 3 out the most recent 4 world cups would be hosted by India.
The choice to start a world cup for Hockey5s by 2023, a possibly fatal choice for our 11v11 game of hockey, will also have to wait for another time. As will the launch of the FIH Intercontinental Cup, basically the 2nd division for the FIH Pro League. We will discuss these choices in separate podcasts & columns in the near future…



However today we will limit ourselves to less controversial though important changes: first we will discuss the new system for our global ranking to be launched in January of 2020. Secondly we will talk about the road to Bhubaneswar and future world cups. Wether these will all be hosted in India is for some other time.



Who better to talk us through the new global ranking and the new pathway to qualify for a world cup then Jon Wyatt, sports & development director for the FIH… We spoke with him before when the idea of a new global ranking was first announced in March (listen here), but now we're close to the launch.



Why we need a new global ranking



As Wyatt explains the current global ranking is based upon tournaments, where the new ranking will be match-based. Since most nations only got to participate in FIH tournaments when qualified, some only got to play for points once or twice every 4 years. Because only some 20% of all official matches played in the international scene were being played in ranking tournaments. So 80% of the games being played did not have any contribution to the world ranking.



That is a problem. Because most nations would have to show to their government or the sports funding bodies in their country some kind of progress to be considered for support. If you hardly ever get to play for world ranking points that becomes a difficult task. So this was one of the more important reasons to rethink the global ranking. But it's not the only reason.



In the previous ranking most everybody will agree there was too much subjectivity, especially in the relative importance given to different continental championships. This led to a flawed ranking. A match-based system will to a certain extent eliminate this subjectivity. Because it will now focus on the relative strength of the two teams playing a game instead of trying to figure out and compare the strength of entire continents.



Besides this, the new ranking will be more simple and dynamic... making it easier to create some extra buzz about individual international games of any level. Because the immediate impact of a win or loss will be easy for all to see.



How & when



The new ranking system will take effect from 2020-01-01 onwards. However FIH has chosen to make the change more gradually. So as not to throw everybody off balance from the get go... Even though the position of the FIH is high performance directors of the nations should not focus on this global ranking, but rather on performing well at key moments such as the Olympics and the World Cup. It is clear an immediate change of the ranking, recalculating the results of the last 4 years for example, would not be fair on those who made their choices in those days based upon the old system. That is why the points for each country in the global ranking on January 1st will be exactly the same as today. But for every game played from that day on the new calculation per match will take effect. Hence for the new system to take full effect it might take some time. It wil

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The European championships is a guarantee for some top class hockey. Following the Olympics and the World Cup this is probably the toughest competition in the world of hockey. At stake first of al the title of European champion, but also a ticket into the Paris Olympic Games. Between August 18 and 27 both men and women will compete in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Get your tickets and follow the event here: eurohockey2023.com.

Panel Talk Euro 2023
On August 24 The Hockey Site will host a panel talk about the men’s tournament and discuss the games so far and the medal games coming up. Our panel will be:

- Rein van Eijk, U21 Germany 🇩🇪
- Jesse Mahieu, U21 Netherlands 🇳🇱
- Jeroen Baart, U21 Belgium 🇧🇪
- Barry Middleton, U21 England & GB 🇬🇧

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The one with Marijke Fleuren, president of EHF and executive board member at the FIH. Within these organisations but also within IOC she is known to be the champion for #EquallyAmazing and all matters related to gender balance in sports. Because "together we are better"!



Every day during the European Championships we published a new podcast before 8am about #EHC2019 ! In this 12th and last episode - a week after the last whistle more or less - we talked hockey, European Championships and gender balance because “together we are better” with Marijke Fleuren.
This will be our last podcast in this series. We hope you enjoyed them all… and rest assured we will come back later with not only season 2 of the Belgian Hockey Podcast (Dutch language only) but also several new episodes of Studio Hockey (in English) about the international game.
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Recorded : 2019-08-25
Published : 2019-08-31
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with the marketeers behind our sport... Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about #EHC2019 ! In our 11th episode we talked hockey, business and "doing things together" with Bob Verbeeck, CEO Golazo - a renowned expert in making sure sports and sports events are able to reach their audience - and the organisation behind this European Championship.
Our second guest in this episode is Tom van Kuyk, manager sponsoring for the Dutch Rabobank, probably the most loyal partner for our game of hockey around the world.
This will be our last podcast in this series. Well... kind off. We will do one more somewhat related to this event which will probably go online in a week or so. We hope you enjoyed them all… and rest assured we will come back later with not only season 2 of the Belgian Hockey Podcast (Dutch language only) but also several new episodes of Studio Hockey (in English) about the international game.
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Recorded : 2019-08-25
Published : 2019-08-26
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with Adam Commens. But before we hear from the technical director of the Belgian hockey federation, listen to the post final comments by Red Lions captain Thomas Briels and his team mate Alexander Hendrickx. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 10th episode we spoke at length to Adam Commens, technical director in charge of the amazing rise of Belgian hockey.
Join us also tomorrow for our last podcast in this series. We hope you enjoyed them all… and rest assured we will come back later with not only season 2 of the Belgian Hockey Podcast (Dutch language only) but also several new episodes of Studio Hockey (in English) about the international game.
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Recorded : 2019-08-24
Published : 2019-08-25
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with Michelle, Lidewij and Nike. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 9th episode we spoke to Michelle Struijk from Belgium, Lidewij Welten from the Netherlands and Nike Lorenz from Germany.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-23
Published : 2019-08-24
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with Adam Dixon and the happy Belgians. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 8th episode we first spoke with Adam Dixon, captain for England following their victory over Ireland. Following this is Simon Gougnard from the Belgian Red Lions after their epic win versus Germany and some short Belgian soundbites with Shane McLeod, Florent van Aubel, Antoine Kina and Alexander Hendrickx.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-22
Published : 2019-08-23
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with the striker, the coach/columnist and the defender. Tom Boon from Belgium, Todd Williams - an Aussie coaching and writing in the UK and Dutch defender Margot van Geffen.



Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 7th episode we first spoke with Todd Williams about hockey in the UK and about choices & consequences... Tom Boon talked about the pathway of Belgium, his hockey family and future challenges. Margot van Geffen was very happy they finally registered a win and resumed the road to gold and Tokyo with the Dutch women.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-21
Published : 2019-08-22
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with Mats Grambusch, Kenny Bain & Marc Salles. A German, a Scot and a Spaniard walk into a bar and... No it's not a joke. It's the 6th episode of the EHCdaily ;)
Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 6th episode we host German captain Mats Grambusch after beating the Irish, Scotsman Kenny Bain who was happy to play the David v Goliath game with the Netherlands and Marc Salles who made the semi finals with his Spanish team. Their last time playing for the EC medals was 2009, so he was very happy :)
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Recorded : 2019-08-20
Published : 2019-08-21
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with not one... but two legends. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 5th episode we host two legends of the game because there is no other description worthy of both Taco van den Honert and Jamie Dwyer. Discussing the differences between today's hockey and the game from when they started playing and all things hockey.
Plus we added a bonus post-game reaction by Alexander Hendrickx after his game with the Red Lions vs England.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-19
Published : 2019-08-20
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with Shane McLeod and Maddie Hinch. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 4th episode we spoke with Shane McLeod, coach for the Belgian men and Maddie Hinch, goalie for the English women. McLeod was recorded before the start of the tournament and we discussed the goals for this European Championship, but also the challenges of managing a team with so many peak moments in a year. Hinch was recorded immediately following her opening game in Antwerp where she won 2-1 vs Ireland, so we discussed her game and how she became a goalie... As a bonus we added the post game reaction by Mink van der Weerden after his Dutch won 3-2 against the Germans.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-15 + 18
Published : 2019-08-19
Part of : #EHCdaily

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The one with Xavier Reckinger and Thomas Briels. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 3rd episode we spoke with Xavier Reckinger, coach for the German women, Die Danas and Thomas Briels, captain of the Belgian Red Lions.
Both talk about their expectations for this event. With Briels describing his love for the game but also what he would change. And Reckinger about the differences of coaching in the Netherlands or Belgium vs in Germany.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-17
Published : 2019-08-18
Part of : #EHCdaily

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Interview with Marcos Hofmann about his candidacy for the position of EHF president. The interview with the other candidate Peter Elders can be found on here as well.
Also check out the opinion piece from both interviews in our columns at https://studiohockey.com/columns/the-choice-between-a-diplomat-or-entrepreneur-for-ehf/

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The one with David Harte and Abi Raye. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 2nd episode we spoke with David Harte, the goalie for the Irish men's team. Unfortunately he's injured and will not be playing. Our 2nd guest however will feature on the pitch as well. Starting by singing a capella her new anthem in front of +7000 people (and many more glued to their screens). Abigail Raye used to play for Canada, but now she's Belgian and making her debut for the Red Panthers at this EC.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Recorded : 2019-08-15 + 16
Published : 2019-08-17
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The one with Marc Coudron... and Miki Delàs! Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our first episode we spoke with Marc Coudron, the president of the Belgian hockey federation and as such the host for this EC. We talked about the rise of Belgian hockey. About gender balance. About what would make this tournament a succes. And of course about the opening game tonight between Belgium (the Red Lions) and Spain (the Red Sticks). So it was only fair to also give the Spanish captain Miki Delàs some time in this first of a series of daily podcasts... Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy...
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Recorded : 2019-08-15 in Antwerp
Published : 2019-08-16
Part of : #EHCdaily

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FIH Pro League did not fail. Batra failed! Or did he…?



A monologue with some quotes in between based upon the opinion piece published at be-hockey.com after the first season of the FIH Pro League has come to an end...



A critical take on the declaration of success by the FIH for their first edition of the Pro League... and my opinion on the reasons why... Don't agree or want to add your own opinion to this, click here. Or find me twitter, facebook or instagram.



Recorded at 2019-07-11 for Studio Hockey.

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It seems to be the mantra for FIH president Batra in all of his endeavours: overpromising and underdelivering! We’ve seen it with the HIL and the FIH Pro League.



And it’s the same for FIH.live so it seems. The platform and app were announced during his FIH congress in November 2018 and launched in January of 2019.



As you can read in my column following the announcement of FIH.live entitled “The proof of the pudding is in the eating” I was enthusiastic though somewhat sceptical from the start. Today we’re 6 months down the road and we have not seen any added value from the new platform yet. So I guess I was right in being sceptical, but maybe that’s just me…



Listen to our podcast or read on at be-hockey.com... In case you would like to watch the video from the presentation at the FIH congress about FIH.live click here.



Recorded in November 2018 and June 2019 for Studio Hockey.

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The CEO from FIH, Thierry Weil, told the world about his ambition for a dry artificial turf for elite hockey at the Olympics in Paris 2024. We can all see the thinking and logic behind eliminating the waterbased pitches. But is it realistic?



Studio Hockey asked industry expert Arnoud Fiolet from Recreational Systems International about the possibility to replace waterbased turf with a dry artificial turf by Paris 2024. And we talked about other infrastructure options to help grow our game of hockey.



Prefer to read about it? Check our blogpost at be-hockey.com!



Recorded in April 2019 & published in June 2019 for Studio Hockey.

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Sometimes you just have to kill the unicorn… before it kills you. No, do not fear… We haven’t gone off topic. We’re not doing fairytales, nor are we in the business of animal cruelty. A unicorn in this context has been defined by experts in innovation as one of these idea’s during a brainstorm session that should not be followed through upon. In this case we're talking about the FIH Pro League !



Read all about this at our blog be-hockey.com or listen to it here as a monologue podcast...



Recorded on 2019-05-07.

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Once again the EHL lived up to its reputation… In Eindhoven the hockey family came together over the Easter weekend and celebrated our sport.
Listen to my monologue following the 2019 EHL edition or read all about it at be-hockey.com...



Recorded at 2019-04-23.

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Jon Wyatt is the sports director for the FIH. He joins me, Ernst Baart, on our Studio Hockey podcast talking about some recent developments following a FIH board meeting in March of 2019. The end of the FIH Series, new qualification paths to the FIH World Cup & Olympics, more importance given to the continental championships and especially about the new world ranking being tested behind the screens right now and to be launched by January of 2020.



A good thing... because as mentioned in a previous podcast and this column at be-hockey.com... the current world ranking is a joke ;)



Recorded with Jon Wyatt at 2019-03-25.

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A monologue about Hockey5s.



In 2013 the FIH gave birth to hockey’s own Frankenstein’s monster. Contrary to the monster created by dr. Frankenstein this one has a name. We call it Hockey5s. 
Very much parallel to the fictional character from book and movies, I’m convinced some of you will have grown to like the monster. As I’m sure the monster will do some good along the way. Though I fear, as in the story, in the end the monster will come back to destroy its creator.
And about Hockey5s being as ugly as Frankenstein’s monster… Well, let’s just say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”  😉



Prefer to read all of this? Click through to our be-hockey.com blog for the full text.

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Mike Joyce, director at The Hockey Foundation and the FIH talks to us about Hockey2024, the newest global strategy for hockey development due to launch in 2019.





The strategy has been presented at the recent FIH congress and will be officially launched in January of 2019.



Check out the podcast to learn more about it from one of the co-writers of this strategy to help grow the game of hockey in the years to come...

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Interview with Peter Elders about his candidacy for the position of EHF president. The interview with the other candidate Marcos Hofmann can be found on here as well.
Also check out the opinion piece from both interviews in our columns at https://studiohockey.com/columns/the-choice-between-a-diplomat-or-entrepreneur-for-ehf/

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Let's start by congratulating Belgium for their amazing progress resulting in a well earned silver at the Rio Games in 2016 and a first gold medal at the most recent World Cup. The secret to their success is a simple formula : a stronger domestic league + an ambitious long term plan/vision not just on paper but well executed + patience and a lot of hard work for many years = gold and a 1st place on the global ranking ! Mind you, the simple formula is not a guarantee but it will offer you a fighting chance to make the dream come true.



But let's talk about this global ranking by the FIH. Rumours are it will change one of these days, as it should with all of the disappearing and new events for 2019 and beyond. Think FIH Pro League replacing the Champions Trophy and the FIH Hockey Series replacing the Hockey World League.
Immediately after the World Cup a new global ranking was made public where Belgium moved to first place. Well deserved... But take a closer look and you will see several strange things. Points being awarded for invitational events, excluding other often deserving nations. Points being awarded, lots of points for continental championships where it's almost impossible to balance the difference in strength between all continents...
For example, the Netherlands finished 2nd at this world cup for a silver medal after qualifying for this tournament in an event where they had to win among 6 of the current top 10 nations. For this they get 650 points. Compare this to 630 points awarded to New Zealand for beating Papua New Guinea in their continental championships. Papua New Guinea barely makes the top 50 on this ranking.Or let's look at Australia winning bronze at this World Cup, earning 550 points for a medal at this level is worth the same as for example Canada beating the USA or Brazil in their continentals...



There is only one word to describe this : unfair !
Not exactly what you would expect or want as the description for a global ranking of an Olympic sport... I'm not even going to elaborate on the issues with countries who earned their spot in a major FIH event but get ruled out because the host nation, usually India, took their spot, even when they did not qualify for the event. Resulting in some free undeserved ranking points for one nation at the expense of another.



Anyway... rumour has it the FIH will soon launch a new global ranking. I hope it will be fair ranking with respect for the true sport values.



Allow me to propose a possible system, just in case the FIH is still thinking on it. I'm not sure this is a perfect system either but at least it will be more fair on all hockey playing nations.
I would propose a system where all games played in a recognised official title or qualifying event will earn the teams points upon result. So no points from friendly games, nor from test series even when recognised as official games by the FIH.
Points will be given for games played during the Olympic Games and the World Cup because these are the two major events in the world of hockey. As well as those games in official and recognised events meant for qualification for either the Olympic Games or the World Cup, such as the FIH Hockey Series or the FIH Pro League, the continental championships (including their qualifiers) and the Olympic or World Cup Qualifiers.
The points system should be very simple and straight forward :



a win earns you 10 points + 5 extra points if the team you just beat is ranked above you
a loss is zero points
a draw earns 2 points + 1 extra point if the other team is ranked above you




For performing well in the two major events , the Games and the World Cup, bonus points on top of these game points can be earned:




gold = +100 points
silver = + 80 points
bronze = + 60 points
4th (semi finalist) = +40 points
losing quarter finalists all get +20 points
participation but not making the quarter finals = +10 points




I'll leave it to the FIH or those who want to give it a go to

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My thoughts on the FIH congress, hosted in New Delhi last weekend. Where the state of hockey and its future was discussed and decided...

Read the column here : be-hockey.com/the-proof-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating/

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Let the Hockey Revolution change the way we show hockey instead of the way we play it!
While hardly anyone is noticing it, I do think the future of our sport will be decided in the years to come. We are at a turning point…

Prefer to read about it? Check out : be-hockey.com/real-revolutions-do-not-follow-the-downtrodden-path/

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Hockey is coming home. It's the FIH slogan for their newest event about to start in 2019 and meant to be instrumental in the Hockey Revolution, the 2014-2024 strategy for the FIH. We're half way their 10 year plan and entering Money Time. Let's recap where we stand today...
Prefer reading to listening? Check out our blog post at be-hockey.com here...

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