Hockey
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FIH Pro League games Belgium – The Netherlands on July 1st and July 4th 2023
There were 2 weeks of games again in Antwerp this year end of June, beginning of July. And both the Belgian men and women teams played against the Dutch on Saturday July 1st and Tuesday July 4th. The Dutch women won both games as expected but the wins were very narrow ones, 2-0 and 2-1.…
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Keerbergen D1 – Embourg
After losing the opening match of the season agains Old Club there was a bit of pressure on the team for the second game. Last season D1 also played against Embourg in Nationale 3 and while they won the away game at Embourg, the game agains them near the end of the season at home…
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Amsterdam
In the last week of July our daughter went on a Drijver elite prep hockey goalie training camp in Amsterdam organised by Sportways. This year the camp was at Xenios. It is amazing how many hockey clubs there are in Amsterdam alone. Xenios has about 1300 members, 5 water fields and they completed the building…
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Old Club – Keerbergen D1
Last season the young Dames 1 team of Keerbergen Hockey Tigers promoted to the Belgian Nationale 2 league. On September 4th they kicked off their season at Old Club de Liege. The nervousness was visible in their game and in a tense match they finally lost the season opener 3-2. But the game was close…
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The Power of Belief
‘The power of belief resides in its ability to do four things: belief creates vision; belief creates strength of will; belief creates resilience; belief ignites and activates.’― Eva de Goede
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Hockey Women’s World Cup in Amstelveen
On Sunday July 3rd we went to watch 2 games in Amstelveen. As it was only a 2 hour drive it was an opportunity to watch the Dutch team play against Germany. As a bonus we could watch England play India as well. With Maddie Hinch in the goal for England this was a bonus…
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Confidence
Found this one on the FB of Maddie Hinch. ‘Confidence is not “They will like me”. Confidence is “I will be fine if they don’t”. ― Christina Grimmie
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FIH Pro League Games Belgium – Spain 21 May 2022
2 earlier attempts in 2020 and 2021 to go and watch the Belgian Red Pathers and Red Lions hockey teams play failed due to covid. Last weekend we finally managed to actually go and watch a couple of games. As a bonus Merijn got elected to be in the line up so it was an…
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