Hockey News: India women’s team all set to face USA in Olympic Qualifiers

The winners of the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers Odisha will qualify for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Meanwhile, the Indian Women’s Team have played their opponents the USA on eight occasions since 2014, registering one win which came in the Tests Matches held in 2016. World No. 9 Indian team has ended up on the losing side on six occasions but the vast improvement in the team saw India play a 1-1 draw in their Pool B match of the FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup last year. Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne spoke highly of his current side and said that they are ready for the test. The Indian Men’s Team will be facing Russia only for the third time since 2008, with the previous two encounters seeing the hosts register huge victories (8-0 in a Round-Robin match of the World Hockey Olympic Qualifiers in 2008; and 10-0 in the Pool A match of the FIH Men’s Series Finals Bhubaneswar Odisha held earlier this year).