{"id":55634,"date":"2018-03-07T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55634"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:35:51","slug":"former-india-hockey-coach-oltmans-takes-charge-of-arch-rivals-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55634","title":{"rendered":"Former India Hockey coach Oltmans takes charge of arch-rivals Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi, March 7 (TNS): The experienced Oltmans was at the helm of Indian hockey for four years from 2013, initially as a high performance director before he took over as chief coach from compatriot Paul van Ass in 2015, Indian media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Oltmans was sacked from his role last September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I can confirm an Agreement with PHF for a role as Chief Coach for the next 2 1\/2 Years,&#8221; Oltmans tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Oltmans&#8217; major assignments with Pakistan this year will be the Commonwealth Games in April and the World Cup in December.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, three-times Olympic champions and four-times World Cup gold medallists, failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently ranked 13th in the world.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: SBS News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New Delhi, March 7 (TNS): The experienced Oltmans was at the helm of Indian hockey for four years from 2013, initially as a high performance director before he took over as chief coach from compatriot Paul van Ass in 2015, Indian media reported on Wednesday. Oltmans was sacked from his role last September. &#8220;Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55636,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634\/revisions\/55636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}