~Indian Ladies’s Hockey Workforce gamers will flip up for his or her respective state groups within the upcoming 14th Hockey India Senior Ladies Nationwide Championship 2024 Pune the place the core probables group for FIH Ladies’s World Cup 2026 will likely be chosen~
New Delhi, 05 March 2024: Seeking to rebuild the Indian Ladies’s Hockey group forward of their qualification for the FIH Ladies’s Hockey World Cup in 2026, Hockey India has urged senior gamers to make themselves accessible for the forthcoming 14th Hockey India Senior Ladies Nationwide Championship 2024. This marquee event within the home calendar not solely gives gamers with an opportunity to showcase their expertise and vie for prime honours but additionally affords a chance to earn a spot within the core probables group.
Beginning thirteenth March 2024, a complete of 28 groups from throughout the nation will take part within the Nationwide Championships.
Talking about her preparedness to show up for her residence state Jharkhand, Salima Tete stated, “I’m proper now in Ranchi for the camp organised by the state. As senior gamers, we have to have a contemporary outlook now and positively work in direction of the longer term. We have to go away the frustration of not making the Olympic qualification behind us and transfer forward with a renewed willpower.”
Salima, who was beforehand a part of the Tokyo Olympic Video games, reiterated that the seniors within the squad have to battle for a spot within the core group now or make approach for contemporary expertise. “The Nationwide Championships will likely be powerful this 12 months with everybody turning up for his or her respective state groups. There isn’t a doubt that every one in all us has to battle for a spot within the core group or make approach for contemporary expertise to come back in. This often occurs after each Olympic cycle the place new gamers come into the core group,” she expressed.
The Simdega champ, identified for her speedy dribbles, will likely be one of many essential members of the Jharkhand facet which has proven exceptional progress in girls’s hockey by churning out younger gamers year-on-year. This time too, Salima is hopeful that extra gifted gamers from her residence state will come to the fore.
“Over the previous few years, superb gamers have come to the forefront from Simdega particularly. The expertise identification program and grassroots improvement initiatives have helped in mentioning new expertise and I’m positive extra gamers will likely be recognized for his or her expertise after we play the Nationwide Championship in Pune. The group is shaping effectively and we’re fairly excited to play for our state,” she signed off.