Indian ladies’s hockey group chief coach Janneke Schopman’s days are numbered as she is unlikely to get an extension after her contract expires in July this 12 months for failing to supply outcomes, together with the aspect’s failure to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Schopman, who was the analytical coach in Indian ladies group’s historic fourth-place end in Tokyo Olympics, took over the reins of the nationwide group after Spaniard Sjoerd Marijne’s departure simply after the quadrennial occasion.

“Her contract ends in July-August (Till Paris Olympics). Let us see what happens, I can’t tell anything at this point of time,” a HI supply instructed PTI.

It is, nonetheless, learnt that Schopman is unlikely to get an extension.

The Dutch player-turned-coach’s finest consequence with the Indian group was the bronze medals that the aspect received on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

But barring that feat, Schopman has nothing extra to indicate because the Savita Punia-led aspect did not win the gold on the Asian Games, which might have instantly sealed its berth on the Paris Olympics.

Schopman and her aspect had one other probability to seal the Paris berth by the Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi in January this 12 months.

But there too they faltered, shedding to Japan within the bronze medal play-off with three prime groups from the event sealing their berths for the Paris Games.

In reality, Schopman’s relationship with Hockey India secretary normal Bholanath Singh soured after the Indian ladies did not make the Paris reduce by the Asian Games.

It turned unhealthy to worse after her current outburst within the media following India’s final FIH Pro League sport at dwelling towards USA, the place she claimed that she did not get the worth and respect from some quarters of the nationwide federation throughout her tenure right here.

Schopman, an Olympic gold medallist, additionally claimed that she felt “alone a lot in the last two years”, and was crucial of the differential remedy meted out to the ladies’s group in comparison with the lads’s aspect.

Hockey India, nonetheless, utterly denied the allegations, stating that she was offered the whole lot that she wished.

“I don’t know why she is saying these things. There is no discrimination in Hockey India. We treat both the men and women teams equally,” the HI supply mentioned.

“Neither Hockey India not SAI (Sports Authority of India) has treated her badly. We have always given due respect and recognition to her.” According to sources, Schopman, 46, desires larger wage at par with the lads’s group chief coach Craig Fulton and this was exactly the explanation behind her current rant.

“To demand higher salary what matters is results. She has done well with the girls but recent results are not in her favour,” the supply mentioned.

Schopman’s subsequent project with the Indian ladies’s group is the European leg of the FIH Pro League in May.

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