Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Five Players boycott national camp in Pune

http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_five-players-boycott-national-camp-in-pune_1312645

Click the above DNA link and read for yourself.

The report is about Indian Men's Hockey team practising in a camp at Pune.

Now, here are the certain ways I can read it:

1) The players who were not selected for Champions Challenge Trophy in Salta, Argentina, will feel humiliated if they attend the camp, hence they bunked it.

2) They didn't get selected hence they are cribbing about the things they don't like there.

3) They were too egoistic in their approach. They feel that they can't learn from someone who is teaching them the basics which 'they think' they are very good at.

In no way, I believe that Brasa is dictatorial. Also, the report is using certain facts to one's convenience.
It indicates that, incidently, Brasa's tiff with Sandeep Singh was followed by Sandeep Singh's departure from the team. Point to be noted here is Sandeep Singh has been declared unfit based on medical reports and will not even play the World Cup. Forgot playing the Champions Challenge.

The report says that there is a growing discontent within the team over the coaching methods adopted by Brasa.
Fair enough; as always, there will be players on the other side.
It will be unfair to judge Brasa's methods before his methods go through a thorough time test.