Indian Junior Men's Hockey Team coach PR Sreejesh shares his coaching experiences

Indian Junior Men's Hockey Team coach PR Sreejesh shares his coaching experiences

Indian Men’s Junior Hockey Team Coach PR Sreejesh in an exclusive interview with IANS speaks on various topics.

On his experience as the junior men's team coach he said that, Being a host, you are already qualified for the Junior World Cup.

But I personally felt like that is not the way to get into a tournament.

You should get into a tournament in the right way like a champion walking into the tournament.

So, that's what I mentioned to my players.

You are not here to take the, you know, being like a host or a quota, you should walk into the Junior World Cup like a champion.

How it feels to be on the other side of the field he said that I think I realised it.

I told myself that Sreejesh, you are no longer a player.

You are a coach now and you do have restrictions, you do have limitations.

So, I realised this first, then only I stepped into these shoes.

On winning second consecutive bronze medal in Paris Olympics sreejesh said that I was not really happy with that because I always felt that we deserved to be in the finals, for sure.

Or maybe to win the tournament.

But unfortunately, that didn't happen.

But when you are in the Olympic Games, coming back, coming home with a medal is more important than coming back home with an empty hand.

On youngsters getting platform with HIL he replied that Seriously, it's going to be a nursery for them.

They can learn anything.

They can learn everything from this tournament, from starting from, you see the pressure handling because you are playing in front of a very big crowd.

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