Hockey India on Monday introduced the 33-member ladies’s hockey workforce for the nationwide camp forward of the FIH Professional League fixtures. This workforce will now proceed coaching on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) in Bengaluru until Could 16. 

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This 33-member ladies’s Indian hockey workforce shall be within the race to type the workforce that can take part in future teaching camps and worldwide excursions. The Indian ladies’s hockey workforce can be set to journey to Antwerp and London to face Argentina, Belgium, Germany and Nice Britain within the FIH Professional League 2023/24 later this yr. 

Expressing his expectations from the brand new core group, Herman Kruis, Excessive Efficiency Director, Hockey India, stated, “The 14th Senior Girls’s Nationwide Championship was used to filter out one of the best hockey gamers from throughout the nation, and over the past week the coaches and selectors have additional handpicked the 33 gamers they consider have the potential to propel the Indian ladies’s hockey workforce to better heights,”

Hockey India had promised a revamped nationwide camp after the workforce did not qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024, a giant step backwards after the historic fourth-place end within the Tokyo Olympics.

Goalkeeper Savita Punia will lead the group. Probably the most notable new additions within the camp have been 22-year-old Marina Lalramnghaki, who represented Mizoram, and the 25-year-old Manisha Chauhan, who represented Manipur, within the nationals.