NEWS
from around the globe
2009 World Cup: still in Malaysia? • Pol Amat (Spain)
Questions have arisen over the ability of Ma- • Sebastian Biederlack (Germany)
laysia to hold the 2009 Junior World Cup • Rehan Butt (Pakistan)
in Johor Baru. The new hockey stadium has • Jamie Dwyer (Australia)
only one artificial pitch which falls short of • Santi Freixa (Spain)
the International Hockey Federation’s re- • Bevan George (Australia)
quirement which states that there must be • Rodrigo Garza (Spain)
two pitches side by side. There is space for • Robert van der Horst (Netherlands)
another pitch to be built but there are prob- • Alistair McGregor, goalkeeper (GB)
lems with funding. • Barry Middleton (GB)
• Teun de Nooijer (Netherlands)
Kenya Champions • Eddie Ockenden (Australia)
Kisumu Simba retained the Kenya Hockey • Jong Ho Seo (Korea)
Union men’s Premier League title by beating • Eduard Tubau (Spain)
Green Sharks 2-1 at the City Park Stadium. • Guus Vogels, goalkeeper (Netherlands)
Kenya Police finished third after beating Nai- • Tibor Weissenborn (Germany)
robi Simba Union 2-0. Kisumu Simba will now • Timo Wess (Germany)
represent Kenya at the next Africa Cup for • Matthias Witthaus (Germany)
Club champions while Green Sharks are on • Maurits Hendriks, coach (Spain)
standby if the Africa Hockey Federation gives • Markus Weise, coach (Germany)
Kenya two slots.
Women’s WorldHockey all Stars 2008:
new Pakistan Chief Coach
The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has • Naomi van As (Netherlands)
appointed Olympian Ayaz Mahmood as the • Luciana Aymar (Argentina)
chief coach of the national team. Mahmood, • Tina Bachman (Germany)
who represented Pakistan in the 1984 Los • Minke Booij (Netherlands)
Angeles Olympics, will be assisted by 1994 • Kaori Chiba (Japan)
World Cup winning team members Moham- • Baorong Fu (China)
mad Shahbaz Jr. and Kamran Ashraf. • Alejandra Gulla (Argentina)
• Rachel Imison, goalkeeper (Australia)
Zia also informed that PHF had entered into • Natascha Keller (Germany)
an agreement with Dutch trainer and coach • Seon Ok Lee (Korea)
Wouter Tazelaar, who will work as a consult- • Yibo Ma (China)
ant and help set up a hockey academy in the • Maartje Paumen (Netherlands)
country. • Carla Rebecchi (Argentina)
• Fanny Rinne (Germany)
NEWS
WorldHockey all Star Teams 2008 • Maria Jesus Rosa, goalkeeper (Spain)
The best 18 players of the world in each gen- • Janneke Schopman (Netherlands)
der has been chosen by hockey experts from • Qingling Song (China)
all over the world. • Melanie Wells (Australia)
Men’s WorldHockey all Stars 2008: • Mark Lammers (Netherlands)
• Chang Back Kim, coach (China)
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