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Olympian Philippe Goldberg of Belgium has been appointed arsenic caput manager of Soorma Hockey Club up of the 2nd play of Hockey India League, the nine said connected Friday (November 7, 2025).
Joining Goldberg successful the revamped coaching setup is Olympian Ignacio Ricardo Bergner of Argentina, who takes connected the relation of Analytical Coach.
The club's existent Head Coach, Jeroen Baart, volition modulation into an advisory role, continuing to lend to squad strategy and method readying passim the season.
"Joining Soorma Hockey Club is an breathtaking accidental to lend to India's evolving hockey landscape," Goldberg said successful a release.
"The squad has laid a beardown foundation, and my extremity is to heighten it with a strategical model that encourages discipline, creativity, and sustained performance. Together, we’ll physique a marque of hockey that’s bold, intelligent, and unmistakably Soorma."
Goldberg, a European medallist and erstwhile Belgium U21 and elder squad coach, played a cardinal relation successful shaping Belgium's emergence to planetary prominence.
Bergner, an Olympian and erstwhile Argentine international, contributed to Belgium’s 2016 World Cup runner-up and 2017 European Championship campaigns, aboriginal coaching Argentina's elder and women's nationalist sides (Las Leonas).
Soorma Hockey Club, who finished 3rd successful an awesome debut season, person retained astir of their halfway players, keeping the bosom of their squad together.
"The summation of Philippe and Ignacio marks a important measurement successful our travel arsenic a team. Philippe's attack to gathering structured hockey teams that explicit themselves aligns perfectly with our playing philosophy," Arjun Halappa, Technical Director, Soorma Hockey Club, said.
"Ignacio's analytical extent volition elevate our lucifer mentation and tactical execution. With this operation of acquisition and innovation, we're looking guardant to taking Soorma Hockey Club to greater heights successful the upcoming season."
Led by Harmanpreet Singh, the nine volition footwear disconnected its 2026 run against defending champions Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers connected January 4 successful Chennai.
