The Dutch men’s national team who will compete at the upcoming Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup Bhubaneswar 2018 was announced earlier today.
Head coach Max Caldas said: “We are professional athletes and will play the World Cup to win the title.
But we do realize that we’re not the only team with that ambition. It’s a tough competition, all teams are very strong.
Therefore, at the World Cup we want to perform better than we have ever done before, in skills, tactics as well as physically and in mental strength.
If we can do that, we will be able to compete for the title. I’m convinced about that.”
The Netherlands, runners-up of the last edition of the Hockey World Cup played at home, sit in Pool D with Germany, Malaysia and Pakistan.
The Netherlands men’s team for the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup Bhubaneswar 2018 :
- Seve van Ass
- Sander Baart
- Billy Bakker
- Lars Balk
- Pirmin Blaak
- Thierry Brinkman
- Thijs van Dam
- Jonas de Geus
- Jeroen Hertzberger
- Robbert Kemperman
- Mirco Pruyser
- Glenn Schuurman
- Sam van der Ven
- Valentin Verga
- Bob de Voogd
- Mink van der Weerden
- Sander de Wijn
- Floris Wortelboer
Reserve players: Jorrit Croon, Joep de Mol