The Indian males’s and ladies’s hockey groups are set to take former coach Sjoerd Marijne and publishing home HarperColllins India to the court docket following the Dutchman’s accusation that Manpreet Singh requested a younger participant to underperform through the 2018 Commonwealth Video games.
In his upcoming e book ‘Will Energy - The Inside Story of the Unimaginable Turnaround in Indian Ladies’s Hockey’, Marijne wrote that senior professional Manpreet requested a participant “to cease enjoying nicely” in order that his associates may get within the crew.
It prompted the boys’s and ladies’s groups to situation a joint assertion, stating that the previous India coach levelled the allegation towards Manpreet to publicise his e book.
“We've come collectively to state our deep disappointment in his (Marijne’s) exploitation of our private info and false accusations. He has used his time of teaching us for industrial acquire to promote his e book at the price of our reputations.
“It is a full breach of belief and his responsibility of care as a coach. It additionally results in all Indian athletes like us to really feel weak in such conditions,” the gamers mentioned within the joint assertion.
“We're within the strategy of pursuing authorized treatments towards Mr. Sjoerd Marijne and the publishers of the e book in query, Harper Collins.” Each the groups mentioned if such an incident had certainly taken place, Marijne ought to have reported the matter to both Hockey India or his erstwhile employer, Sports activities Authority of India, which he didn’t.
“We want to collectively query Mr Sjoerd Marijne, that if any of the claimed incidence befell underneath his watch there ought to be report of an allegation filed to Hockey India or the Sports activities Authority of India on the time.
“On checking with the authorities, now we have discovered no such report of criticism,” the assertion learn.
The groups mentioned, by bringing such false and fabricated allegations, Marijne has questioned the integrity of the gamers.
“The Indian nationwide males’s and ladies’s hockey crew stand along with one another and can defend our integrity that has been delivered to query by him.
“Our nation, crew and the game of hockey are our collective high precedence and in no way will we enable for the integrity of any of our crew members to be compromised for anybody else’s private acquire,” the assertion mentioned.
Marijne coached the Indian males’s hockey crew for 9 months earlier than he was ousted following a dismal present on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games at Gold Coast.
He later took cost of the ladies’s crew and guided it to a historic fourth-place end ultimately yr’s Tokyo Olympics.
PTI tried to contact Marijne for his response however he didn't reply.
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