00:00You are satisfied with the team performance and your team are back with a gold medal.
00:04What do you want to say on this?
00:06Yeah, I think the objective was to go back to back to make our own piece of Indian history.
00:10You know hockey history and the boys did well over this tournament.
00:14Not easy on the back of the World Cup.
00:15There were some tough moments in that World Cup, but we bounced back.
00:19I think we had a great debrief and team builds before we arrived in Japan.
00:25Yeah, proof is in the pudding and we were consistent through the seven games and played a good final.
00:30Last match with Pakistan, you had knack to knack and we won in the last second.
00:35Do you give any special treatment to the boys after that or tell them to be serious because it's a
00:42gold medal match?
00:44Yeah, it was more about just getting through the semi-finals.
00:46Semi-finals are difficult matches and we started really well and in the second half we lost our way a
00:51little bit
00:51and Pakistan is that kind of team that can hurt you if you make mistakes and they did.
00:56And then good teams find a way to win and we always find a way to beat them.
01:00And I don't mean it in a disrespectful way, but we have the belief that we can and it showed.
01:06Also team secured the LA quota and now all eyes on LA and it's two years of camp.
01:12So what focus now and what are the plans?
01:15Well, just enjoy this moment, man. It's been a busy 2026. It's been very difficult at times.
01:22And yeah, just a reward for the staff and the players that are hard work and their hard work pays
01:28off.
01:28And it did tonight and I'm proud to stand here and also commend the ladies team for winning gold as
01:35well.
01:35So Hockey India, thank you for the opportunity to coach this team and at the same time, wow, gold medal
01:43in Asian Games.
01:43How do you want to celebrate this medal with boys?
01:46I just relax and just talk about it, share some experiences and we have a meeting tomorrow morning and we'll
01:53take it from there.
01:59I think that's the most important thing that the LA qualification was for us.
02:04And then hats off to the team, hats off to the coaching staff, to the boys, that we played this
02:10tournament and the final result was good for us.
02:20I think that's where we scored a goal. I think that that was a point that we won't win in
02:35the last 5 or 30 seconds.
02:38That's where we scored a goal. I think that that was a point that we won't win.
02:43We played a lot of fun and we worked with them and that we did a lot of win and
02:47we played the very good players in the final match.
02:48So we know that the team plays the match that players can really execute well and I think hats off
02:54to our defenders that have done a good job.
03:00There is a lot of change here. When you start in the evening, they are warm, but the Sunday run
03:05instead of getting excited.
03:06Now, do you have a little help?
03:10I don't think that it would seem to us to pick up a game.
03:12because in our mind it was that there were so many situations where the accommodation was not good
03:19like type of that but in our mind it was that your gold medal is winning and that's what we
03:25were
03:25thinking and we know that all the weather of the field is like an outside box and then we know
03:38that we can't do anything about it which was our main focus was the match.
03:44i just want to dedicate this medal to my squad which is training in bangalore because it's not us
03:50it's 33 which is our squad which is india a team because they didn't have a chance to be the
03:57part
03:57of the team but we are getting better and better and then to my family also to the teams also
04:04i think
04:05uh this medal it's it's one of the hardest to achieve
04:17but it's my mom's hand that rajma chawal
04:32and then i just want to celebrate this medal
04:38that's my family and friends who were there and then
04:43after world cup they were there every day every night we were just talking laughing
05:17which is stress-free yes
05:23foreign
05:29foreign
05:31the team's performance was pretty good and the mindset was that if we won't win the match
05:40then we won't win the shootout because it was pretty good but it was 45 seconds where
05:45Abhishek won the goal and today it was the fact that we will keep the pressure from starting
05:49and keep the attack when we get the opportunity in the PC or field goal.
05:53We will convert it to the goal.
05:55Did you get the attack after the match?
05:57No, Craig never gets the attack.
06:01He always tells us how many mistakes we have played today.
06:04How many people have played today?
06:06Today we are good and not good.
06:08It is always positive.
06:10It always motivates everyone.
06:11Sometimes it is good or bad.
06:14How does the game come back?
06:16It is very good.
06:17How do you dedicate a medal?
06:19I am a medal for my family.
06:21I am very close to my two daughters.
06:24I am a little girl for Evelyn.
06:28How do you celebrate the World of Hockey?
06:31I am busy with the whole tournament.
06:34How do you enjoy this?
06:36We are going to go to the hotel here.
06:39We are celebrating but we are going to go to the house.
06:42We are going to go to the house as we are going to the Asian Championship.
06:44We are going to the preparation for this.
06:46We are going to the house with our children and the country.
06:49We are going to celebrate some food.
06:52We are going to leave.
06:53We will try to eat something.
06:53We will come to the house as we have to eat.
06:57I am going to eat a meal.
06:58We will eat a meal.
06:58Yes, when the tournament is in the first camp,
07:01we do not eat a meal.
07:03But we have achieved some things.
07:05We will have a reward for us.
07:07I am going to go and see what we eat.
07:09How are you going to go to the house?
07:12There will be a lot of potatoes in my mother's hands.
07:15There will be some potatoes of the vegetables.
07:17And my wife will make it very good.
