Your World of Champions, SuperSport is rearing to broadcast FIH Indoor World Cup video games with groups from South Africa and Namibia in motion.
01 February 2025 – The seventh version of the FIH Indoor World Cup kicks off in Croatia on Monday 03 February 2025 with Africa’s largest broadcaster poised to broadcast the sport for hockey-lovers continent-wide.
Often known as one of the vital electrifying occasions within the sport as a consequence of fast-paced and skilful gamers who supply continuous action-packed matches, the FIH Indoor World Cup is a must-watch for any sports activities fanatic.
African hopes will lay firmly within the fingers of South Africa and Namibia. Each nations can have their males’s and girls’s groups not simply collaborating however competing.
South Africa opens its event when the ladies’s crew faces Thailand at 12:50, whereas the lads face Croatia at 21:50 on the opening day. SuperSport will present all of the matches dwell on SuperSport Selection 2 (DStv Channel 207) in SA and SuperSport Africa 2 and Motion Africa within the Remainder of Africa.
The matches may also be streamed on DStv Stream and GOtv.
South Africa, having efficiently staged the showpiece occasion in 2023 received by double defending champions Austria within the males’s division and the Netherlands within the ladies’s part, can be hoping to enhance on the 6th and 4th place finishes within the males’s and girls’s divisions respectfully.
The format of this yr’s event is identical because the Rugby 7s on the Paris Olympics. Three (3) teams of 4 (4) international locations with the highest two in every group plus the 2 greatest third-placed groups going by to the quarter-finals. There’s an added incentive as a prime 6 end for an African crew earns the continent an extra spot on the 2029 Indoor World Cup.
Followers are assured top-tier motion when the event will get underway, dwell on Your World of Champions, SuperSport.
“SuperSport prides itself in providing our viewers the very best of all sports activities, and the FIH World Cup supplies us a chance to platform the much-loved sport that’s hockey,” mentioned SuperSport CEO Rendani Ramovha.
“Usually extra recognised through the Olympics in area hockey, it’s our intention to be sure that a sport like indoor hockey will get the publicity it deserves. As a sport extensively performed within the South African college sporting techniques, we’re sure this event will draw a lot fanfare and domesticate new heroes for our future champions.”
The South African contingent is way from wanting heroes for younger aspirant hockey gamers and lovers to get pleasure from in full flight.
The South African ladies’s crew boasts Olympians, Kayla de Waal and Edith Molikoe.
Led by captain Jamie Southgate, the crew come into the event ranked 6th on the planet with Southgate’s expertise integral to their success.
Because the third most capped participant in South African hockey historical past, having lately performed her 100th recreation, she and her teammates can be hoping the highs of such a monumental achievement invigorate the crew to success.
The 8th world-ranked South African males’s crew is led by captain Dayaan Cassiem, alongside his headline-grabbing youthful brother Mustapha. Lauded for his tempo, talent and mesmeric type of play, Dayaan is the right foil for the goal-scoring machine that’s Mustapha. The latter enters this event as reigning World Junior Participant of the Event from the final version and has already notched up 101 targets in simply 41 matches!
The expertise of Justin Domleo may also play a significant function if the trophy is to make its approach onto the African soil as this version in Croatia marks his fourth World Cup as he continues to interrupt information because the nation’s all-time capped chief within the males’s facet.
“From a format acquainted to one among our hottest sports activities, to the vested curiosity on account of South Africa and Namibia’s participation each within the males’s and girls’s divisions, this yr’s version of the FIH World Cup completely encapsulates the type of sporting motion SuperSport viewers are hungry for. We can not wait to feed viewers clashes between the very best of the very best,” concluded Ramovha.
The stage is about for a pulsating event. The most effective indoor hockey groups are converging on Croatia and followers are sure to not miss a second of the motion courtesy of Your World of Champions, SuperSport.
For full fixtures and broadcast info go to SuperSport.com.
