LAUSANNE: The Executive Board of the FIH on Thursday Chose Oman to Sponsor the inaugural Hockey5s World Cups (Men and Women) to be Performed January 2024 since India and Pakistan Did N’t Receive the nod.
Matches will take place in Oman’s capital city Muscat, the global Hockey Federation (FIH) explained in an announcement.
FIH had received calls from India, Pakistan and Singapore to sponsor this function.
The Hockey5s’ flagship event is really a fresh FIH contest.
Sixteen teams each sex (3 percent continent Oman as hosts) will participate in this very first edition.
Continental Hockey5s qualifiers for the World Cup is going to be coordinated in 2022.
“We are anticipating some great inaugural FIH Hockey5s World Cup in Oman.
This surely is going to be a wonderful boost for the marketing of baseball in the nation and in the entire area,” FIH CEO Thierry Weil stated.
“We are convinced that Hockey5s will play an integral part in the development of baseball worldwide.
That is the reason this World Cup was made, in addition to some Hockey5s World Tour that we’re working on.” In 2019the FIH Executive Board chose to make an FIH Hockey5s World Cup, with a view to further fostering the growth of the game worldwide through the promotion of its 5-a-side structure.
Founded in approximately 70 countries on Earth, Hockey5s has been the most attended game in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
