The Odisha Warriors, in a 4-0 win over the Delhi SG Pipers within the inaugural sport of the Girls’s Hockey India League, actually seemed like a successful facet.
The workforce wearing orange tops with blue kilts, just like the top-ranked and present Olympic champions from the Netherlands. The Warriors are coached by Holland’s Janneke Schopman, who was late the top coach of India’s girls within the leadup to Olympic qualifying.
However importantly, Schopman managed to safe FIH World Participant of the Jear Yibbi Jansen of Holland within the league’s participant public sale that crammed out the roster.
Jansen confirmed her worth, scoring a penalty nook objective in every half to beat the Delhi SG Pipers 4-0. Each objectives have been scored off dragflicks from simply inside the highest of the circle, snaking between the submit participant and the goalkeeper.
Baljeet Kaur and Freeke Moes would rating two fast objectives within the third quarter minutes after Jansen’s second. Kaur scored off a superb wall move from the second-goal space on the left wing, whereas Moes’ objective got here from concerning the penalty spot a the Pipers’ protection left her completely an excessive amount of room.
The result’s the final word for Odisha, opening a numerical and psychological benefit over the remainder of the sphere. Tomorrow, Soorma HC will tackle the Shrachi Rahr Bengal Tigers within the second of 12 leaguewide fixtures earlier than the WHIL grand ultimate on January twenty sixth.
