~Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Workforce just lately concluded a promising outing on the 4 Nations Event in Rosario, Argentina~
New Delhi, seventh June 2025: The Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Workforce is about to proceed its worldwide marketing campaign with a five-match European tour from 8 to 17 June, the place they may tackle Belgium, Australia, and the Netherlands. The workforce, which just lately concluded a promising outing on the 4 Nations Event in Rosario, Argentina, has now reached Europe for the following leg of worldwide publicity.
India will start the tour with three matches in opposition to Belgium on the Hockey Heart of Excellence, Wilrijkse Plein, in Antwerp. They may then face Australia at Beerschot Tennis Hockey Padel Membership, in Kontich, earlier than wrapping up the tour with a match in opposition to the Netherlands at Hockey Membership Kampong, in Utrecht.
In Argentina, the Indian facet delivered robust performances in opposition to high quality opposition. They registered a 2-1 win and a 2-2 (2-3 SO) loss in opposition to Chile, earned a 1-1 (2-0 SO) win and a 2-4 loss in opposition to hosts Argentina, and defeated Uruguay twice — 3-2 and 2-2 (3-1 SO). The tour served as an essential step within the workforce’s preparations, providing helpful classes in dealing with high-pressure situations and adapting to totally different taking part in types.
Notably, these matches are additionally a key a part of India’s preparation for the FIH Hockey Girls’s Junior World Cup 2025, scheduled to happen in Santiago, Chile, in December 2025. Going through robust worldwide opponents in assorted circumstances will assist fine-tune the squad’s mixtures, construct match temperament, and instill the arrogance required to carry out on the world stage.
Talking forward of the European tour, Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Workforce Coach Tushar Khandker stated, “This prolonged tour is a superb alternative for our workforce. We had a helpful studying expertise in Argentina, and now transferring straight into matches in opposition to Belgium, Australia, and the Netherlands will permit us to construct on that momentum. These are high-calibre groups that may check our tactical and technical depth, in addition to our consistency. For a lot of of those gamers, it is a important section of their growth, and such excursions give them the type of publicity that may’t be replicated in coaching classes alone.”
“Most significantly, this tour performs a vital function in our preparations for the FIH Hockey Girls’s Junior World Cup 2025 later this yr. Each match we play now helps us get one step nearer to being prepared for that problem,” he added.
