Walsh expresses on preferences for Coaching Indian Hockey Team

Last month, Terry Walsh from Australia replaced Michael Nobbs as the official coach and mentor of Indian men’s Hockey team after an average performance of the Team. Walsh is a silver medallist in Montreal Olympics and has represented his nation in three Olympic events. He has an astounding coaching career and experience in Hockey. He was earlier holding the position of Technical Director at USA Field Hockey from 2005 to 2012.

The upcoming Year 2014 has a wide range of major tournaments from World League Round 4 at Delhi to Champions Trophy at the end of Year.

Walsh highlighted patience and flexibility as the main recipe for becoming successful and overcoming the hardships in coaching profession in India. He accepted his awareness about the qualities of a successful mentor and coach.

He emphasized on being flexible to adapt to the conditions of the Subcontinent and held this quality responsible for bringing results and boom in one’s own career. He interacted with reporters on the occasion of Hockey India League closed bid 2013.

He also mentioned about his homework and preparations before arriving the subcontinent, for the new assignment of coaching Indian team. He commented on his strategy to be patient and handle issues by finding the justified solutions for them. He is looking forward for directing the Indian team at grass root level to bring in results with the talented crew.

He added with an idea of amalgamating the Australian and European tactics to perform better and in a skilful manner to achieve the best levels of Hockey game play.

Walsh also has coherence in ideas with High Performance Director of Hockey India, Roelant Oltmans. He mentioned the common aim of both of them is to adopt a correct procedure in place and performance based representation of Indian Hockey crew in his tenure.