How to Improve World Rankings & be in Top 10 in World Hockey?
Malaysian Hockey Team must:
- To win 2021 Asia Cup (has to beat India to get points and cannot afford to lose to other lower ranked teams like Pak, Korea, Japan & China) - anyway top 3 Target (with India) to qualify to 2023 World Cup in India
- To win 2022 Asian Games - qualify to 2024 Paris Olympics
- to play consistently at Olympics & World Cup & to
finish as high as possible. At least second round at 2023 World Cup and Quarter Finals at Olympics and
winning the 60 mins matches as SO gives less points.
- Early planning of official matches against above ranked
teams is crucial - Performance Plan at least 4 years - min One Olympic Cycle.
- Organized more International Invitational Tournaments -
must be more than 3 teams and invite higher ranked teams. Sultan Azlan Shah Cup must invite top 8 Teams in World and beating them would boost your rankings.
- At Asian Games/Asia Cup (not Qualifier and must be Continental Championship) level cannot afford to lose against lower
ranked teams.
- At WC/Olympic Qualifiers must be performing at best and
qualifying to final rounds of play i.e. playoff of 2 matches home & away of
aggregate score.
- Have to qualify to play in the main FIH Pro League thru the FIH Nation Cup.
Shortcomings of FIH New Ranking Model:
- No limit of matches per year for each team.
- When will the points reset again or it will be ongoing
without resetting. Then the equitabilities will be wide between top teams that
plays in Olympics, World Cup & FIH Pro League compare to teams outside
these tournaments.
- No minimum participation points based on final standings
for Olympic or World Cup and other events. If a team loses all matches, his
points will be badly hit even though participated at the highest level of
tournament.
- Many top teams may avoid playing lower ranked team.
- There will be an increase of unofficial matches without
TMS to avoid rankings. Official test matches will reduce drastically.
- Coaches cannot use young players to be tested in Official
Matches as the risk of losing points is greater.
- The Importance (1) bandwidth need to be tweaked as the
levels of difference is high. Might be for Olympic and WC it should be at 8
rather than 10.
- No points for Junior Teams such as playing in Junior World
Cup and Qualifiers. FIH must come with ranking points for Junior Teams too.
- There is confusion on Continental Level of Importance is divided to Championship & Qualifier - for Championship Level of Importance is 6 and Qualifier will be 3.
- The Nation with high income funding with unlimited
cashflow will gain the most from this model. It means they could hold matches,
tournaments, participate in invited tournaments and travel around to globe to
collect points.
- If the difference in ranking points before the match is
greater than 1000, then a maximum Weighting of 2 is applied if the lower ranked
team wins, or 0 if the higher ranked team wins. In this situation the higher
ranked team would not want to waste their resources and will avoid playing such
matches. The lower ranked teams will suffer.
- As for Commonwealth Games - no level of Importance provided by FIH, which means the matches would not be considered as rankings. No TMS too...
Now comes the key question - Does the decision makers & Officials aware of the above details. Till today, there is no clear Performance Plan for National Teams till 2024 Paris Olympics.
And next month, it will be a one year Anniversary and key Bearers been there for 6 years and more but still at learning curve and lack the knowledge to manage the sports effectively and efficiently.
Before saying Top 10 & Top 8 in World Hockey, get the basis right and be factual in any announcement.
P/S - Anyway, has they put a bid to AHF for next years Men's Asia Cup - which acts as the 2023 World Cup Qualifiers. As for Women no chance to play in World Cup.
Next Article will write about the Qualification process for Men and Women to 2022/2023 World Cup.
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