Oltmans mahatma

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Since 2013, Oltmans has been plotting Indian hockey's resurgence, first as the High Performance Director of Hockey India and then, from 2015.

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Mayor Matilda Mothlaping of Kwa Thema made the following points. ‘In my understanding,’ she said, ‘there cannot be a consensus as long as we are faced with this fragmented mentality among blacks. Who is going to be our leader? He must be a person who represents all blacks of South Africa at the forthcoming Great Indaba. As long as we are utterly divided, and go on criticizing each other's varying opinions on how to reach our common goal, there will be no unity.’ Mentioning the Desmond Tutu crusades for sanctions, she replied, ‘If those preachers could only be like Mahatma Gandhi, who overturned a continent of hundreds of millions of people through passive resistance, we would now be climbing our mountain indeed together. Here, in Kwa Thema, are people who are in need of everything. These churchmen are not addressing that. They are addressing a boycott and sanctions against the very poor. But what happens in the meantime with the person that has no food in his stomach? Will that fellow think reasonably, the way you would wish him to think? We b

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‘Dreaming is fine but keep a sense of perspective,’ warns Roelant Oltmans, India's hockey coach

Roelant Oltmans has seen it all. The Dutchman took the Netherlands’ women’s team to the World Cup trophy in 1990 and then took the men’s team to gold triumphs at the Olympics in 1996 and the World Cup in 1998. The 62-year-old was also behind Pakistan’s fifth place finish – where they beat India en route – at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Since 2013, Oltmans has been plotting Indian hockey’s resurgence, first as the High Performance Director of Hockey India and then, from 2015 onward, as the coach of the men’s national team. Indian hockey has seen a revival of sorts under him – they were the first team to qualify for the 2016 Olympics after winning gold at the Asian Games in 2014, finished third at the Hockey World League Final in 2015, and, more recently, won a historic silver in the Champions Trophy in June 2016, their best ever performance in the competition.

Former hockey legend Viren Rasquinha has hailed Oltmans’s contributions to the team, pointing out that the Dutchman has “