A stern action is likely on the cards for the Indian men’s hockey team national coach Joaquim Carvalho as the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has reprimanded Carvalho and his support staff for openly criticising umpires after the team's failure to qualify for Beijing Olympics in Santiago, Chile last month.
Annoyed by the IHF’s poor handling of affairs and the criticism of umpires owing to their Olympics qualifier debacle, the FIH said on Thursday that non-adherence to the code of conduct might land "persons concerned" in trouble as their utterances are under review.
“The level of criticism and abuse to umpires seems to be acceptable in India but it is certainly not acceptable to World body. Right from the top brasses of national federation to team management downwards were into it,” FIH official Bob Davidzon, said in a statement, who is also the Project Director of 'Promoting Indian Hockey’.
“FIH Code of Conduct is pretty clear that all participants in any tournament must not involve in a personal attack on another player, umpire, appointed official or administrator,” Davidzon added.
The IHF president K.P.S. Gill together with Carvalho and other support staff voiced loud cry over poor umpiring after the Santiago debacle, as they initiated a set movement to save their skin because of nation-wide protests cropping up against them.
They held the FIH and poor umpiring responsible for India's historical ouster at the Olympic qualifiers in Chile. It was the first time in 80 years that India’s men’s hockey team won’t be spotted in Olympics.
However, Davidzon was quite angry at all these dealings, as he went on to say that Carvalho should first know the rules and regulations of the event before blaming anyone, and by doing this he has violated the FIH Code of Conduct.
Davidzon particularly targeted the national federation and said that the IHF should be held responsible for India's unjustified umpiring criticism, which was due to lack of knowledge about the game’s rules.
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