 Hello and welcome to our final episode of our coverage for the FIH Men's Hockey World Cup 2018. On this episode, we answer the great big questions. Where is hockey headed? What is the future of the game? Where is the World Cup headed? Where is India's World Cup dreams headed? And where, indeed, is the Indian team? Here we are in the press box. Tension is ripe. After all that, it has boiled down to this. A new powerhouse versus a perennial giver of great hockey. The Dutch versus the Indian. And think of it, India almost leads these two sides. Hindsight is there. Almost. Almost is there. It's a possible goal. Could have won a shoot-up. What's the don't count in sport? Like the Belgian coach said yesterday, it is a mixture of the lot. The Belgian coach is in fact in the Netherlands. Yeah, shame is wrong. So, it's a mixture of many different cultures including Asian by the way. So, it's interesting. I mean, if there's anything that India can learn from Belgium, it is how to invest in not just players but also coaches. Because it is essentially coaches who shape players from the junior level. We knew that the tournament is like 28 days. So, we knew that we didn't have to start in our best form. I think if you have to go way back, it's in 2008. The team qualified for the Beijing Olympics. First time in 32 years I think. And that's when it all started. The funding became the young, the under 16, under 18, under 21 teams. We got good coaches. We got good training camps. And you see that from a young age. We started to get the right training. And the guys who are now in this team, we played under 18s, under 21s and we won medals. And you can feel that since 2008, 2009, we started just growing, growing, growing. And this team has been together since I think 2012, 2013. And you see that now we're growing so fast and it's not over I think. At this World Cup, an underlying theme to all the great games, to all the teams, the technique on offer, the management. The underlying theme has been what is hockey's future. Actually, the evolution of the game is also determined by the evolution on the turf. I mean, it's determined by how will it help in the future to take this hockey forward to the masses, to a crowd which is not used to the technicalities of hockey. So they want to package it in an attractive way, in a fast way, in a quick way. That's what happened. The game is faster than the last World Cup. And so that's it. So underlying theme in the last 20 years for hockey has been evolution to capture a larger audience. And earlier, if it was not directly linked to survival, I guess now it's, now or never. I mean, it's not reached that stage yet, but hockey knows that it has to do something now and it's a game to be relevant in the next 30 years also. I think we, first of all, we are competing ourselves. We are still having, we are a conservative person. We have two referees where their job is not to let players touch each other. They are there to avoid all these things. And this is the approach we have in hockey. But these actions and these contacts and the body contacts and very thrilled dynamic situation in other sports are the real value for them. And here for us, this is the all thing. So I think we need to balance somewhere. The football rule, what you need to sustain a sports is not tinkering with the rules and regulations. You have to do many events. You take it to the people. You make facilities for everyone to play. Hockey certainly likes that, but whatever changes they have done, it has to come to an end. Otherwise, the hockey, you see, now they say, you know, there are only five or five side hockey will be there. The 11 side will also be there. But two cannot exist. It cannot exist. One will be at the cost of second. If the 11 side hockey is going to be perished, that will be very sad for the hockey. Because hockey is 11 side. You have a duration of 60 minutes, you have a duration of 70 minutes, whatever you want to change it. But the basic structure of the hockey should be maintained. That is very important. Well, it is reached quite a high level. A lot of awareness has been brought up by hockey, publicity. By making it accessible for everybody, rather than just the rich people. So it is a well-known sport all over the world now. And it is televised live in England at the moment on BT. So it is a pretty popular sport now. Probably the second third behind football. People are still talking about television. Television is small. It is not. No one is talking about television. No one watch on television. It is like some people who are at home or families. They would like to see those things. But sports is gone from here. It is on ads. It is on other devices. So we need to create those kind of things. And FIH right now is doing very well on those. We have to keep our pace. We have to do more. But we are right now in the right direction. The important point is that what is actually success? That is success. That is a bronze medal match by the way. And Australia hammering England. But yeah. So success in war terms and it is always linked to money. It is always linked to financial feasibility. So yesterday when the CEO of International Hockey FIH CEO he had a word with the journalist and he was mentioning that for a World Cup FIH looks at one thing only. It breaks even. It does not make a profit out of it and compare that to FIFA. A simple comparison. So the financial feasibility is a big factor. Why hockey is striving for it? Because ultimately that will allow the game to expand. Allow the game to actually establish further in traditional strongholds. And also probably pump in some aid to ailing countries like Pakistan for it. What is Indian hockey's biggest take away from this tournament based on the teams? See Indian hockey has gone up like anything. They are performed well in this World Cup also. Unfortunately that game is on the game's day. So India also they have 50-50 chances which if they are scored they are definitely their one against Holland. This is not the end of the story of Indian hockey. Now all the youngsters have come in. Now the performance has gone up. So they have played very good in upcoming tournaments. So that is a very nice scope for the Indian hockey. Hockey is fast changing and India is fast catching up. It is now World No. 5 from 11-12 to it is World No. 5. So it is easy to reach that level but it is almost difficult to reach the next level 4-3-2-1. That the Indian team can take inspiration. The women can take inspiration from Ireland. From nowhere they come to the final of the region women's World Cup. Then Argentina. Despite losing to India they went out to win the Rio Olympics. Nobody expected Argentina will do it. So this shows the game has evolved. The level playing field has become very unique for you. Very cheap. So if you are good, if you are fit, if you know the strategy you can count your day. Are you all hockey players? My name is Raju Marenga. My name is Rohit Khalb. My name is Asit Agha. Where are you from? Kitty College. What are you doing here? What happens when this party gets up, is done and everyone leaves? What about the clean up job? It is going to be a huge void I would say because the last three weeks or so there was a tremendous amount of buzz around the stadium. Sport was getting all the right kind of attention. Ok. But we know Odisha as a tradition. In the sport not necessarily in Gubineshwar because the centres are different. But then we were talking to some of the volunteers over here and all of them, all the volunteer force that they had at the World Cup when they were all academy boys and girls and from sub junior and global level to seniors. And so Odisha's senior campers, Odisha Sports Council's campers are based in Gubineshwar. In fact that's the same complex that's telling the stadium complex. So for them this would be a new turf to train on. They have two world glass turf. They have other facilities at the stadium. Hopefully that would be open to the players to access. So these facilities I believe unlike certain other cities including Delhi where after the Commonwealth Games at least never got equipment. I mean facilities to train. I believe these facilities would be used to do that well. And we can only hope that there will be like a benefit from having hosted the World Cup for Odisha. Yeah and also seeing these players up close and I believe all of them are inspired. I mean aspire for global standards. All these centres. You could see the spark in their eyes actually. They were watching them actually. And they were seeing all these global stars. Rubbing shutters with them. So it was a great experience for them at the World Cup. And beyond that the facilities that I've been set over here is going to be good actually. Thank you.