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[@HockeyheroesTV]

What do you think of the dutch field hockey?

[@jcn0249]

Hockey Heroes TV you’re the best and I am from England

[@satishubale4475]

Hola I am from India

[@katlegomoleli1479]

hi I am from South Africa

[@f.ded.7880]

Ahh but the Belgians (men) are better ;)

[@tectorama]

It looks very good, and seems to be a very popular sport. Do yo play mostly in the summer ? Here in England it's mostly a winter sport, probably why we have more sand based pitches.

[@shrikesari]

I’m from India. We have an old traditional hockey culture. After a debacle of 4 decades, we finally won our 12th Olympic hockey medal. Our women too came close to win first medal. All these years, we were in awe of Dutch hockey. They have a great hockey culture supporting families to attend matches. Excellent Infra and equally good skilful players make them the all time best.

[@ellicechen]

Im British and we definitely have more hockey opportunities than the US but hockey in the Netherlands sounds SO fun! I’m a little jealous 🤣

[@umangkumar4517]

We Indians love hockey

[@maryjohnston7995]

It's pretty much the same here in Australia! Hockey is one of the most played amateur sports. We have more dry turf here though, because water is much more precious in our climate.

[@ajgoals333]

@phenom it is below afl cricket soccer

[@martinaruarte4847]

Hi, I'm from Argentina and I love hockey

[@micaelapalij1710]

Martina Ruarte I am argentinian too

[@micaelapalij1710]

rigel star of courseee then where do we come from? 🤪🤪🤪

[@ajgoals333]

Im not argentinian but love football hockey is a waste

[@amalfernando9915]

Wow iam srilanka hokey player

[@ajgoals333]

@@amalfernando9915 how popular is hockey there

[@cristinaescobar5713]

This video made me think in how much, we must learn of another cultures. Because if someone have success in a discipline, learn of him, but pride people, just say bad things, and do the same mistake all the time. I'm very open mind, so I enjoy learning about religions, political, cultures, etcetera. In fact, when I go to vacation, I usually speak with people in the airport (with my bad English) it's so funny. I think Dutch hockey it's great, I copy your technique, because I didn't have idea about hockey. Thanks you so much for share your knowledge, it's very useful for me. Love from Argentina.

[@akray1153]

I thought only us Indians watched hockey in a regular basis, clearly i was wrong

[@Samvid_2.0]

Such a beautiful video on a beautiful game🏑❤️I hope my country India can bring back it's golden days in hockey (well our Men's/women's team has just made in the semis kf Olympics) and hope to see leagues running here back soon! 🇮🇳🏑❤️Kuddos to Netherland 🇳🇱Hockey has well for loving the sport so much

[@_DavyGravy]

In Northern Ireland I’m in the under 13 team and we play from sept-December then January-March with only a two week break off. We also train two times a week then a match on the weekend

[@donaldwhite6097]

very good initiative. love to be a part of Dutch Field Hockey

[@suryathawait8764]

For Indians hockey and cricket is pure emotion ❤️❤️❤️

[@fattony9227]

Dutch clubs have won the women Euro hockey championship 41 out of 46 times!

[@fattony9227]

@del/ I think you are referring to Belgium men team. Neither the Belgium women NT nor Belgian women clubs can be compared to the Dutch women NT or Dutch women clubs.

[@zakariaharruzzolo4955]

One of these days, I will come to experience the Netherlands!

[@jontyjames9121]

Brilliant video and there was some stuff there that i didnt know, always love playing Hockey in Holland 🏑🏑

[@jonathangonzalez3323]

The Paradise. Saludos desde Argentina

[@IntelligentDude-fm4eh]

Dutch, Pakistan, Australia and Germany ruled hockey for decades. Now Belgium has joined the list as well.

[@Alan-fe8nk]

Ayy I have a college tourney tomorrow. This video made me feel better

[@Timooooooooooooooo]

Great introduction to the Dutch field hockey ecosystem, for those unaware. I would've appreciated a mention of parahockey (G/LG), as I think it shows how widely spread the sport is.

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Well lets make a video about that on its own

[@Timooooooooooooooo]

@@HockeyheroesTV That would be awesome! I could connect you to some people who could tell you more about it if you'd like

[@eukat3ch]

i played 8 years for AHBC.. best time of my life (im 42 now maybe i should get back to a veteran team)

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Why not! Go for it!

[@gangsterpenguin1440]

My winter break only start's at the end of this week and starts again early January ( Isle of Man )

[@chiragsolanki8351]

Great Video! keep going!

[@jimmylynch6870]

I wish America had better hockey culture for guys, I've fallen in love with the sport, but it is so hard to find places to play at a decent level. Really sucks.

[@umagi3d808]

The family-oriented hockey culture in the Low Countries is amazing, although it used to be (and still is) somewhat for the better offs of society. In South-Korea, they have almost no hockey fields, and much less than 2000 people today playing the sport, mostly as part of some school curriculum. Crazy to imagine how they managed to reach the Sydney 2000 Men's finals, losing to the Netherlands on strokes, while the Korean women also took silver at the Altanta games of 1996. Unfortunately, that lack of hockey culture means that they will probably never ever be able to emulate those results again, and it even looks like hockey might even disappear completely there.

[@carlosdcardona5676]

No question that the Dutch are very good however, many countries have a GREAT field hockey culture and traditions! In my country of 🇦🇷 field hockey is the most popular sport for women of ALL AGES ranging from 5 to 50 years old! In fact our female national team which are called the LEONAS have beaten the Dutch in a World Cup! As for our men football is by far the most popular sport however our men are quite good at field hockey as well! Btw we did produce one of the greatest players in women's field hockey! Her name is Luciana Aymar! Greetings!

[@lws7394]

Luciana is goat !

[@kalyaninagarajan5473]

Great field hockey playing country

[@hockey2go659]

very interesting video.

[@jcn0249]

Very good

[@gracieli1545]

i love you hockey heroes!

[@matthewdodds4683]

Like I play for university team in Wales and we play twice a week, BUCS on Wednesdays and Welsh league on Saturdays. We always smash the teams on Saturdays due to the age difference and ability levels but yet we regularly get smashed during BUCS due to our training capabilities being so low as there is no real welsh hockey pitches that are a decent quality. Like for a standard BUCS game or Saturday league game at home we have to travel an hour to play on a decent enough astro compared to the 3g pitch we've been "blessed" with that is on uni site

[@lovekamo]

What is the best hockey brand you guys prefer??

[@justjane008]

Hey... From south africa ❤️I love hockey and I'm in the first team of my school🌍I'm 13🏑

[@katlegomoleli1479]

I really want to go to one of these camps but I live in Africa

[@Xmj6919]

Which country ?

[@rameshs1129]

Looks like I should born in Netherland, such a field hockey supporting country

[@fattony9227]

Netherlands women's hockey team: World rank: 1 11 times European Champions. 8 times World Champions. 4 times Olympics Gold medals. The best women's hockey team EVER.

[@umagi3d808]

The low countries are a hockey paradise with a high number of clubs on small territories. The Dutch lead the way with their very professional approach of sports in general, and hockey in particular. The Belgians followed their example, with succes. But the dominance of the Dutch women is just too phenomenal and other nations are still years away of catching up with them. The playing ground is much more level with the men, where each of the top 5 teams have the potential to beat each other. Belgian men were twice lucky to win titles with shoutouts (WC 2018, Olympics 2020).

[@WidideJong1996]

From Indonesia 🇮🇩✌️ Bruh

[@DarkwearGT]

Didnt beligum beat netherland men In the final 2018

[@lesvlogsdeferdinand6207]

yep but that's not why we are better in hockey :) you can win a match against a big team but the big team is probably better than yours, even if you've won a match against them ;) one match is not the other and the netherlands have won many more trophies :) (sorry for my english tho, it's been 3 years since my last english lesson aha) greets from belgium

[@jannickbreunis]

Cool, that's me at 1:39.

[@oldmatewazza4676]

Australia has a good hockey base but we have like 4 other massive sports that are very big here. But hockey here in the aussie is still big

[@shrikesari]

Tell me about it! India has managed to beat world’s best - Belgium, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany to become world number 3. Only team we are unable to beat even once is - Australia. Our hockey nemesis. We have started to beat them in cricket. But hockey and football , a long way to go

[@IntelligentDude-fm4eh]

@@shrikesari, you are still losing in cricket as well 😂😂😂😂.

[@jolentopno7352]

Great👍

[@kalyaninagarajan5473]

Dutch has totally 2,55,000 players in their country but in India each state has 2,55,000 players.we have 29 such states. Very competative hockey playing country.

[@premmohan8631]

Even then we could not produce good results , no comparison with the Netherlands 🤫 only Australia and germany are close to them... Because there both men and women hockey team produces good results.

[@arijitpalit2756]

@@premmohan8631 your conception is bafflingly wrong. India is currently ranked at 4th. And had beaten Netherlands, Belgium, Australia in last 5 years. We just need an olympic win to come full circle. Edit: India is also ranked 2 steps higher than Germany.

[@Samvid_2.0]

@@arijitpalit2756 rankings update!! We are now world no 3 and tomorrow is our semis against Belgium 🇧🇪in the Tokyo Olympics 🇮🇳

[@jackmorgan1677]

With the amount of people in India, they should have already won the Soccer World Cup many times. It should not be difficult to find eleven world class players amongst over a billion people...

[@lws7394]

255k players in NL ....

[@sumitraizada7270]

India just beat Netherlands in a 2 match FIH pro league competition and Belgium is current no 1. I guess there are more good teams now to challenge Dutchs. Hope they take it a notch above.

[@yydd4954]

Australia, Argentina and Germany have quality too

[@TheIvancoelho]

Every peak has its doom, maybe if the Dutch didn’t slack so much during those “winter breaks” anyway team India 🇮🇳

[@jackross5205]

I wanna take a gap year and just live in Netherlands to play hockey and work part time

[@robbieduffy5890]

Y r there no more videos being made

[@fod1855]

Can you do a video on re-gripping your stick?

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Search for chamoisgrip on our channel

[@gazzabazzazza]

Fascinating, especially as I'm a passionate player and coach in England but feel the sport struggles over here. Do you know who finances these huge clubhouses and pitches? How big are the smaller clubs e.g. how many teams and members? And what about the biggest clubs? Also, is hockey a professional sport in Holland? I mean can players be paid properly to play (can it be their only job)? Is there a lot of money in the sport? In the UK, football clubs get money from TV coverage and people paying to come and watch. We don't have this in the UK, which is why i think hockey is small 😔

[@DaMayan5]

> Do you know who finances these huge clubhouses and pitches? Often times the municipality finances the pitches and the clubhouse, then the club leases from that municipality. Allthough it's often a mix of different sources and partly self-financed by the club and members. > How big are the smaller clubs e.g. how many teams and members? And what about the biggest clubs? A smaller club will have about 300 members. Although there are also some micro-clubs with maybe 2 teams and about 30 members. The biggest one (HC Kampong) has around 3300. Most would be somewhere in the middle. > Also, is hockey a professional sport in Holland? I mean can players be paid properly to play (can it be their only job)? Yes, the top-level is a professional sport. Most top players get a salary and depending on their lifestyle, sponsorships and salary it can be their only job. > Is there a lot of money in the sport? Depends on how you look at it. It would be a lot in total, big clubs, pitch/clubhouse construction, bar sales, lot's of gear sales also for the amateurs etc. But even the best players aren't going to break the bank like footballers do. There is some TV coverage but not a lot.

[@gazzabazzazza]

@@DaMayan5 thank you for the brilliant reply. It's excellent that your municipality can help fund hockey facilities. In England, we too have some public pitches. (Some) schools or universities have them as well. Clubs sometimes privately own, if they can afford to build them. Football is so much more profitable / popular though. If a council / municipality thinks about a pitch, they are more interested (i suspect) in one which is good for football (which means bad / useless for hockey). This i guess is because they went to guarantee bookings. The demand is there for football facilities. The FA (football association) has plenty of money as well to help with building facilities. The sad thing is - and I've read some recent examples - is public pitches are sometimes good for hockey but then they decide to change them to be better for football. Hockey is just not really supported so well in England 😔

[@nikolaimaharaj2319]

@@gazzabazzazza as an English man do you think that cricket is dying there btw? (I'm not a fan of cricket I'm just curious)

[@gazzabazzazza]

@@nikolaimaharaj2319 I'm sorry. I have basically no idea of cricket uptake / participation. My feeling is that cricket is bigger in England than hockey but i have no figures to prove either way.

[@nikolaimaharaj2319]

@@gazzabazzazza well the fact that you said you basically have no idea clearly says something, because you clearly are aware of the popularity of football in England, if cricket was any bit popular as well you would've picked up but since you haven't then I guess we can come to a conclusion that it just isn't all that popular

[@countless5689]

its settled im moving to the Netherlands

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Hahaha 😜

[@vikramadityahindu8591]

Its a very good system.But requirs huge money investment which is not possible in India.Still we are producing world-class players.Our environment is also very hot and humid still it can't stop us from playing Hockey.

[@countless5689]

what do you guys think of NZ hockey?

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Also very good!

[@Drdee1]

GB hockey fan here. I'm not surprised by any of this because I know a family who play for Surbiton HC and have toured in the Netherlands. One question, how does this compare with the Dutch football culture? Do you have to compete with football clubs for the most athletic young people or isn't that a problem?

[@HockeyheroesTV]

It is all about what people prefer to play.

[@Drdee1]

@@HockeyheroesTV There are several more popular sports for kids in the UK too - football plus rugby, cricket, netball and a lot of schools don't have the money to pay for artificial surfaces

[@nikolaimaharaj2319]

@SHABBIR SINGH I get the impression among the general UK population that cricket is dying though

[@lws7394]

Field Hockey is popular , but it does not reach much following outside the clubs and families playing. So it remains very much a family sport culture (The same with an under the radar sport like Korfball ...) Many people who may never have played football follow the sport. Even with basketball (the NL federation has only 50k players) there are people who don't play it may follow the sport .

[@MatthewJBD]

Field hockey in the UK is certainly better than in USA but absolutely nothing like in The Netherlands. Though most clubs do have club houses, bars and plenty of drinking!

[@WidideJong1996]

🧡

[@anjalishukla4112]

What do you guys think of Indian hockey?

[@officialusmanqureshi]

Lol where Im from veterens are like over 50-60, 35 is pretty young

[@him3487]

I am from India & hockey is our national sports

[@boazpascual364]

Hey im from Spain im interested on playing on the dutch leagues i play on spanish league i waant to boost my hockey i don't know with Who i need to speak about this stufff

[@obiwankenobi623]

You need to figure out in what area you want to play and the google sites of the clubs in that area. If you can't find any maybe google maps can help. On the sites you can often send an e-mail to try to apply for the club If you want to play in a high league you need to make sure the men's team play at the very least 1st class (1ste klasse)

[@yydd4954]

Does Barcelona have hockey team?

[@paulrevere2379]

I came to watch this as an American because I cannot support a bunch of anti-American feminist whiners from my own country, but I can so much be a fan of patriotic Dutch athletes who haven't rejected basic virtues like how you play and live is more important than winning and whining.

[@milf_Hunter_]

Who’ s firts in the world ranking

[@Henry12341]

Powerful team in Sports Soccer: Brazil, Germany,italy, France, Argentina Hockey: Netherlands, Australia, Germany Rugby:New Zealand, South Africa Basketball: USA, Russia, Spain cricket: Australia, india Tennis:Usa, Russia,Serbia, spain badminton: China, Malaysia

[@nikolaimaharaj2319]

Isn't India up there in hockey too? I saw in the most recent ranking they're 4th in the world. Correct me if I'm wrong

[@indranildutta2961]

@@nikolaimaharaj2319 we used to be but now we are not that good

[@musicman717]

Wasn’t the Dutch football team 2nd and 3th place at the 2010 and 2014 World cups? And isn’t Belgium a powerhouse since 2018?

[@arijitpalit2756]

@@indranildutta2961 well India has a huge chance of winning in Tokyo olympics this year. I don’t know where this misconception came from, but if you see matches last time India and Netherlands met. India beat Dutch 5-2 score. How is that bad?

[@MDSun-os3ki]

@@indranildutta2961 we are right now.... We are still not the team we once were but we still are good ...we recently beat Germany 6-1 in march..And that's impressive considering how good Germany are .. Its just that.. We lose to the Australians most of the time.. And this Olympics. Its a huge chance for us to end the 40yr drought of having a medal in hockey

[@yydd4954]

Best is INDIA 🇮🇳 Win 8 Olympics and prove it wrong otherwise keep working hard

[@Jeroen1983]

Won mostly in the very early days of the Olympics and not since 1980. True, it was an impressive result, but now there's a more competitive international atmosphere. Still, I like India for the fact that they, too, care so much about this sport.

[@arijitpalit2756]

@@Jeroen1983 India has a huge chance of winning gold at Tokyo olympics. The men's team has all the right ingredients to do it.

[@Samvid_2.0]

@@Jeroen1983 😀hey,our Men's/women's hockey team just made It to the semis of Olympics 😊🇮🇳

[@Jeroen1983]

@@Samvid_2.0 I saw! Congratulations, because that is a good result. Let's hope they beat Argentina.

[@ammarfirdaus5569]

Does the players are getting paid just like a football professional league

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Not as much and not all of them

[@jackmorgan1677]

All that water used for the hockey pitches is irrelevant because it rains for 60% of the time in The Netherlands. They've got more fresh water than they know what to do with it...

[@oliviamiller772]

How much does it cost to be apart of one of these clubs?

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Depending which club. The one in amsterdam forest are around €500 per year

[@hughnixon720]

Did you say that hockey is a summer sport in Holland? In New Zealand, hockey is a winter sport, played in winter

[@obiwankenobi623]

It's not neccesarily a summer sport. We have a national summer break that lasts around 6 weeks in the middle of summer. Then quickly after that every team starts training again and starts to play matches in september. Once it's December the indoor league starts and field matches won't start until march. Then from march to june the league is played again and in july the summer break will start again. But there are a lot of clubs that organize special events (e.g. every Wednesday in my case) in the summer break for everyone to meet at the club and play together at all different ages and levels

[@DarkwearGT]

Different type of hockey Field hockey and that hockey

[@ajgoals333]

@Shabbir singh correct bro

[@tjerkfeenstra]

Waterland

[@tectorama]

Are most of your pitches water based ? Here in the UK most use sand.

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Almoste

[@tectorama]

@@HockeyheroesTV Probably as you have plenty of water ? :)

[@obiwankenobi623]

@@tectorama Most clubs will have at least one water-based pitch, but there are still loads of clubs in smaller towns or smaller clubs in general that just have one or two sand-based pitches

[@tectorama]

@@obiwankenobi623 Here in the UK I believe it is still mostly sand. As I expect for the smaller clubs, they are easier to maintain. Speaking to someone who has played on both, they don't seem to think there is that much difference to the way the ball runs. I don't know about the pitches used by the senior leagues, or for Internationals.

[@obiwankenobi623]

@@tectorama I have played on both types and I will always sigh if we need to play on sand. Water-based pitches are way nicer to play on, I feel like I have more control. 3D skills are way more viable too and your stick won't erode nearly as fast as on sand (at least I believe so, can't confirm 100%)

[@jcn0249]

I love sucky so much I play every day non-stop

[@martinaruarte4847]

Nadie me entiende pero bueno yo sigo hablando

[@adarshks7294]

Okay

[@DarkwearGT]

No more video y?

[@alexand_r5841]

We only have one A, B and C at our boys teams…

[@DarkwearGT]

Wait 225 000 people i 309 clubs nani

[@wadejohnson3051]

I love you guys but you spelt Australia wrong 😅

[@satishubale4475]

Hola 3 rd view 1 like

[@WidideJong1996]

Marhaban ya Ramadhan 🙏✌️🫂🙏❤️🤍☪️✝️🕉️✡️❤️🤍😁🙏✌️

[@umagi3d808]

Belgium made the mistake of not equally investing in their men and women.

[@SundarBalamurugan]

Habibiiii..... Welcome to India. If india gets a gold medal at Olympics in next 3 Olympics or even a silver medal(which they are most likely will). No country can catch India from that point.

[@benbinns9037]

Are u able to giveaway a Adidas stick iplay really high level for school in England we’re going to nationals but cannot afford my own stick

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Sorry we are not able to.

[@martinaruarte4847]

I would love you to understand Spanish and do a raffle of sticks and bowls

[@micaelapalij1710]

Martina Ruarte yo te entiendo jajjaa

[@martinaruarte4847]

@@micaelapalij1710Bueno alguien q me entiende jaja

[@ryanrodrigues6127]

Field hockey 🏑💖😍💯

[@paparazzi.IndianFootball]

US can't even get the name right of this game.... How tf are they gonna be top team?

[@chriskostopoulos8142]

Best in the world?? you seem to forget about a little place called Australia, That said the Dutch are very good, especially the women.

[@nikhilgill]

Netherlands is one of the best in the field hockey

[@dilbaghsingh1050]

Hockey is good game but as compare football and cricket hockey is only popular in india

[@yydd4954]

What? Hockey is 3rd popular sport Bhai Hockey is very popular in Europe and is loved in Australia, Argentina and south Africa Hockey is great in Asia too

[@satanshameer690]

India and Pakistan used to be the best at field hockey

[@nikolaimaharaj2319]

Aren't they still pretty decent though? I saw India is currently 4th in the world

[@satanshameer690]

@@nikolaimaharaj2319 India and Pakistan's performance in hockey is a far cry from what they used to be back in the day. India used to win consecutive gold medals at the Olympics. That's miles ahead when compared to the present situation. I'm not sure about the team rankings though

[@arijitpalit2756]

@@satanshameer690 India has improved a lot last 5 yeras. Pakistan too, should try to promote the game.

[@satanshameer690]

@@arijitpalit2756 India sucks at all sports because they care only about cricket. Let's see India's results in future hockey tournaments and Olympics

[@stefjansen187]

Maar ze zijn geen wereldkampioen.... GO BELGIUM!

[@bingostar1615]

Belgium did beat them in the last olympics... So your info is outdated.

[@HockeyheroesTV]

Thats Just 1 team. We are talking about the infrastructure ;)

[@regntonne]

kakkerrrrrrrrrrrrrs

[@north_indian_pajeet_rendian_mc]

Hmm. Can cricket be so popular there some day!

[@WidideJong1996]

🧡

[@WidideJong1996]

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