PR Sreejesh Is New India Junior Men’ Team Head Coach

New Delhi: The ‘Great Wall of Indian Hockey’ PR Sreejesh will quickly be considered in a edition new role following his retirement from the game, with Hockey India set to announce him because the instruct of the junior countrywide group.

Sreejesh, 36, brought the curtain down on his illustrious goalkeeping occupation following India’s victory over Spain the full technique by way of the bronze-medal swimsuit on Thursday.

Sreejesh, whose glorious 18-year-long occupation observed India clinch two Olympic bronze medals (2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris), is assumed to be the identical-ever hockey goalkeeper the u . s . has produced.

“Optimistic, we can appoint Sreejesh because the boys’s junior group instruct (beneath-21) in some days. We have pointed out this with him and there could be no yes individual better than him to manual and nurture the teenagers,” Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey suggested PTI from Paris.

“He has best capabilities, which he confirmed in Paris in opposition t Britain. No longer simply that, he's going to also be guiding the youthful generations of goalkeepers,” brought Tirkey.

Hockey India also wants Sreejesh to manual the in on the moment's senior group goalkeepers, Krishan Bahadur Pathak and Suraj Karkera, who will exchange him the full technique by way of the factor.

“We would also like Sreejesh to fret in guiding Krishan and Suraj who are going to interchange him. He has colossal ride and is conversant in in regards to the hints of the exchange,” brought Tirkey.

Sreejesh could be obligatory to India’s success the full technique by way of the boys’s Junior World Cup to be held in India in December subsequent year.

“Sreejesh is also very obligatory for us to manual and encourage the group in subsequent year’s Junior World Cup because the full technique by way of the previous also he has helped the junior factor,” cited Tirkey.

Tirkey cited he became blissful with the Indian hockey group’s frequent performance in Paris, saying the group played like a cohesive unit.

“We now not reduce than repeated our (Tokyo 2021) frequent performance then as soon as more we always targetted the gold medal. Then as soon as more, for me best now, a bronze is practically as good as gold. The group played relatively smartly and there became solidarity one of many gamers, which became considered the full technique by way of the game in opposition t Britain,” he brought.