Stuck in a pandemic, hockey coaches try and improvise game's future in post-COVID world

Sundeep Misra


On top of the coaching tree at the moment sits Shane McLeod who coached Belgium to a 2018 World Cup win, the 2019 European Championships and the 2016 Olympic silver medal. Twitter @BELRedLions

It is disorienting; but, we cannot run away from the fact that the world, at the moment, lives under a canopy of distress and hope, both almost in equal measure. The sporting world, grappling with new realities, is standing on the edge of the precipice – difficult to step back and no tangible way forward, at least for the moment. Days have turned into weeks and then into months, hope comes like a whiff of smoke and then disappears a second later. Yet, in these uncertain times where agony, misery and torment wait to be swept aside by joy, health, and comfort, the one element in abundance is time.