Former skipper Joaquim Carvalho on Tuesday hit out at chief hockey coach Michael Nobbs, saying the Australian has not done anything worthwhile to lift the performance of the national team in his two-year-old tenure.
“He has shown no improvement in the Indian team. A good coach needs to come up with good strategies against specific opponents, should have good management and communication skills as well as ability to read the game. He is no coach,” Carvalho, who also coached the national team, said.
However, Carvalho’s former India and Mumbai teammate Mervyn Fernandis has questioned frequent changes of coaches.
“I do not believe in talking about coaching. That’s my personality. We have made so many changes, brought in foreign coaches after using Indians, but where have all these changes got us toIJ And before making any change we should see what are the other options,” Fernandis said.
Nobbs, under whom India finished 12th with the wooden spoon in the london Olympic Games last year, is under serious pressure to help team qualify for the next men’s World Cup in The Hague, Netherlands scheduled for May-June, 2014.
Carvalho wondered why Dutchman Roelant Oltmans, whose credentials were much higher as coach, was functioning as the High Performance Director and not as the chief coach of the national team.
“Nobbs has been paid handsomely and if India does not qualify for the World Cup it will be money going down the drain,” said Carvalho.