As India inch nearer to the beginning of their FIH Hockey Professional League 2024-25 marketing campaign which begins on 15 February as they tackle England in Bhubaneswar, we’re excited to carry you an unique pre-season interview with captain Salima Tete.
The Indian Group is returning to the Professional League after discovering success on the Ladies’s Asian Champions Trophy. Inform us about how the staff has been getting ready?
We’re within the section of rebuilding and with the current success on the Ladies’s Asian Champions Trophy we’re engaged on carrying ahead this momentum. Our disappointment of not qualifying for the Paris Olympics is now behind us and we’re really trying ahead to the beginning of the Olympic cycle with the Professional League.
Inform us about beginning the marketing campaign in your house floor in Bhubaneswar.
It’s a particular venue for us. As a staff we take pleasure in enjoying in Bhubaneswar and we really feel lucky that we’re getting so many probabilities to play in entrance of our house crowd.
How essential will the Professional League marketing campaign be on your staff, particularly since it’s a World Cup qualifying occasion now?
It’s nice that now we have a chance to qualify for the World Cup by ending on the highest of the Professional League. This simply provides extra pleasure to the league. I’m positive all groups collaborating will likely be vying to earn their qualification by means of this occasion making it a difficult outing.
For extra particulars about India’s fixtures and squad for the upcoming FIH Hockey Professional League matches in Bhubaneswar, click on right here.
