New Delhi: The Indian Women’s Hockey Team will be satisfied with gold in the Asian match next year to seal a ticket directly to the Paris Olympics 2024, said goalkeeper Savita Punia.
The Indian women’s team has produced a fourth historic place to finish in Tokyo’s match after losing 3-4 to survive the United Kingdom and Savita champions say this team focuses on doing well at the upcoming event, especially Asian games, to overcome the pain of loss of the Olympic medal.
“The whole world has supported us after our fourth place finished at the Olympics but when you get so close to the medal and return empty-handed, it is a kind of pain that can only be understood by athletes.
So we want to go to the wise tournament,” he said During a virtual press conference on Thursday.
“Our main focus is at the Asian Cup, which is a World Cup qualification and then there will be a World Cup and will then become Asian games.” The last time the Indian women’s team won gold at the Asian Games in the 1982 edition and Savita said the party had to leave this time after completing the silver in the 2018 edition.
“Of course the next four in the Olympics need a lot of effort but just as we missed bronze at the Olympics, We have missed gold in the last Asian match, so we need to try hard, “said Indian player, who won the best goalkeeper recognition in the female part of this year’s annual award.
“We know how we struggle to qualify for the Olympics after skipping gold, so it will be the biggest tournament for us next year.
We need to produce gold in Asian games, no one will do it.” Just talking about it will not help, we must take responsibility individually to work alone and from now on.
“After missing the Olympic qualifications because of silver in Jakarta, the Indian team finally qualified for the match after a 6-5 victory on aggregate.
The US in the double fid qualification in Bhubaneswar in 2019.” Sometimes some players may feel that since we reached the fourth Olympics, so we will do it well in Asian games but we know we always have a close match with Asian teams like China, Korea, Japan.
“So our mindset should be Asian games must be the best tournament for us so that preparation for the Olympics can be easier, so the qualification pressure ends and we can qualify and focus on the Olympics.” Savita said the team needed “continues to work on fitness, conversion of a penalty angle and defense.” “We learn a lot during the preparation of the Olympics and we become more responsible now, it will help us,” he said.
“Now there is no one in a leadership position, it’s about making everyone educated to become a leader …” Fitness, mindset and confidence – this is the area we have done in the last 3-4 years and it was made a difference and it was shown In the Olympics, now we go with a different mindset in training.
“Savita also praised the contribution of Indian women’s analytic coach Janneke Schopman, who took over the Chief Coach post after the departure of Sjoerdics after the Olympics.” It was a good decision for us that Janneke replaced Sjoerd because he had been with us for one and a half years now.
He has worked with us from the field, especially during Covid-19 times.
“Asked whether he was tighter than Marijne, Savita said she was quite demanding.” Everyone has their own style.
Sjoerd (Marijne) sometimes used to lose cool but janned demanded, he didn’t want any reason and he showed it with an example, so everyone wants to learn from him.
He encouraged us to go with the aim of being set in our minds during training …
“Dragflicker Gurjit Kaur, who was decided as the best player in the woman’s part, said India needed to prepare several other penaltual prison specialists.” Ekka) Alright and I feel more players must be able to do drag flicking …
many players sharpen their skills and we will be able to see in the future.
Now apart from Grace, Gagan (Gagandeep Kaur) is also good at drag-flicking, he will increase day after day with practice, “he said.