The Indian males’s and ladies’s hockey groups are set to take former coach Sjoerd Marin and publishing home HarperCollins India to courtroom after the Dutchman alleged that Manpreet Singh had requested a teenager to underperform throughout the 2018 Commonwealth Games. .
In her forthcoming guide ‘Will Power – The Inside Story of the Incredible Turnaround in Indian Women’s Hockey’, Marijne writes that senior supporter Manpreet instructed a participant to ‘cease enjoying good’ in order that her mates be part of the workforce. May be This prompted the boys’s and ladies’s groups to difficulty a joint assertion, saying the previous India coach accused Manpreet of publicizing his guide. “We have come collectively to specific our deepest dismay at his (Marijen) exploitation of his private data and false allegations. He has used our teaching time to promote his guide at the price of our status for industrial achieve.
“This is a complete breach of my duty of trust and care as a coach. It also makes all Indian athletes like us feel unsafe in such situations,” the gamers mentioned in a joint assertion.
“We are in the process of pursuing legal remedies against Mr. Sjoerd Marijne and HarperCollins, the publisher of the book in question.” Both groups mentioned that if such an incident had certainly occurred, Marin ought to have reported the matter to Hockey India or his former employer, the Sports Authority of India, which he didn’t. “We wish to collectively query Mr. Sjoerd Marijne, that if any claimed incident occurred underneath his supervision, then Hockey India or the Sports Authority of India ought to have a file of the allegation made at the moment.
“On checking with the authorities, we have not found any such record of complaint,” the assertion mentioned. By making such false and fabricated allegations, Marijne has questioned the integrity of the gamers, the groups mentioned. “The Indian nationwide males’s and ladies’s hockey workforce will stand by one another and defend our integrity which has been questioned by them.
“Our country, team and the sport of hockey are our collective top priority and under no circumstances will we allow the integrity of any member of our team to be compromised for the personal benefit of anyone else,” the assertion mentioned. Marin coached the Indian males’s hockey workforce for 9 months earlier than being dropped after a disappointing efficiency on the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
She later took cost of the ladies’s workforce and guided them to a historic fourth-place end ultimately 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics. PTI tried to get in contact with Marijne for her response however didn’t revert.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
