Germany: Coach Shane McLeod Works With The Hamburg Polo Membership

Shane McLeod has been essentially the most profitable area hockey coach
internationally lately. With Belgium’s males, the New Zealander received the 2018 World Cup title and the 2021 Olympic Video games in Tokyo, amongst different titles. After his retirement, he nonetheless acted as assistant coach to his successor Michel van den Heuvel for the final two years. Now the 54-year-old, who has twice been named FIH Coach of the Yr (2017/2018), has introduced that he’ll go away Belgium after eight years and can first proceed his profession as a marketing consultant with the Hamburg Polo Membership till the
finish of the sphere league season.
Shane McLeod: “I’m excited to hitch the Hamburg Polo Membership. It offers me the chance to work with some wonderful gamers in addition to studying a unique enjoying type. My hope is that I can deliver some new concepts to help the efficiency of the group.
The membership has been very welcoming and I sit up for working with Matthias Witthaus and the remainder of the group.”
On the German Vice Champion, the enjoyment in regards to the help from the profitable coach is big. joyful to welcome Shane as a brand new member of the Polo household. He’ll encourage the group, the membership and all hockey followers,” says HPC board member Frank Schmidt. McLeod will primarily be lively within the space of sport evaluation and coaching design. “For the group, it’s a totally totally different strategy for a change,” says Matthias Witthaus, who has steered the fortunes of the Polo males nearly single-handedly for eight years and has risen with the group from the Oberliga to the First League in that point. “There have already been a few conferences with Shane through Zoom. That has already proven thatwe will certainly profit from the cooperation. I personally can even have the ability to take a couple of issues with me there.”
The previous New Zealand nationwide group participant (1996 to 1998) already is aware of components of the group effectively. Of the 5 “Black Sticks” enjoying for the Hamburg Polo Membership this season, solely Hugo Inglis was a part of Shane McLeod’s squad on the London Olympics in 2012, who led New Zealand’s males into the highest ten at each the Beijing 2008 and London Olympics, however
Blair Tarrant, Kane Russell, Aidan Sarikaya and Nic Woods had been additionally a part of the New Zealand Hockey Federation’s expertise pool again then.
Additionally, for the participation within the ultimate match of the Euro Hockey League over Easter in Amsterdam, the function of Shane McLeod could be very precious for the HPC, as a result of he is aware of European membership hockey effectively, as he had received two nationwide titles as coach of the Waterloo Geese (BEL) and took part with them within the EHL, earlier than he took over full-time in Belgium in 2015 as the boys’s nationwide coach.