Kalinga Lancers revealed the visit of Belgian coach Pascal Kina as Technical & & Strategy Coach ahead of the brand-new Hero Hockey India League season. He will sign up with the Kalinga Lancers’ revamped training personnel, that includes Australian legend Jay Stacy as the group’s brand-new Head Coach.
The 57-year-old, daddy of Tokyo 2020 Olympics and 2018 World Champion Antoine Kina, brings over 20 years of training experience. Throughout his profession, he has actually dealt with a number of worldwide males’s and ladies’s groups, in addition to leading top hockey clubs in Belgium.
In the early phases of his profession, Kina functioned as Assistant Coach of the Belgium guys’s group from 1998 to 2007. He then took charge as Head Coach of the Belgium females’s group, leading them at the London 2012 Olympics and continuing in the function till 2015. He later on coached Canada’s females’s group and went on to work as Assistant Coach of the South Africa females’s group throughout the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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On the Belgian club circuit, Kina has actually developed an excellent performance history. He was Head Coach of Waterloo Ducks Hockey Club before relocating to Gantoise HC, where he led both the males’s and females’s groups to several significant success. Amongst his current accomplishments, he directed Gantoise HC to the Euro Hockey League FINAL8 Men’s 2025 title and protected a 3rd successive Belgian Hockey League champion. Most just recently, he worked as Assistant Coach of the Belgium males’s group at the Euro Hockey Championships 2025 in Mönchengladbach.
Discussing his brand-new function, Kina stated, “I am thrilled to sign up with the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers as Technical and Strategy Coach. It is a fantastic chance to come to India and deal with a wonderful franchise based in Odisha, a location where hockey culture runs deep. I eagerly anticipate working together with Jay Stacy and the gamers to construct a strong and competitive group for the brand-new season. I am likewise excited to see how the auction unfolds and to get going with the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers.”