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best men’s and women’s teams will take to The Hague in the Netherlands
to battle for glory and the right to claim the 13th FIH Hockey World Cup
title and you can watch every match on Sky Sports.
With 24 teams
and 15 countries represented, playing a total of 76 matches over two
weeks, the Hockey World Cup is staged every four years in between
Olympic cycles and the sport’s premier international event outside of
the Games.
The Dutch city
will play host to a fortnight festival of hockey across two stadiums,
the Kyocera Stadium which holds 15,000 fans, while GreenFields is
equipped for 5,000, meaning that over the 15 competition days, more than
250,000 are expected to file through the venue.
Four years ago
in Delhi, Australia won the men’s tournament for a second time after
defeating Germany 2-1 in the final, adding to the title they
won in 1986, while the Netherlands claimed third place by
defeating England.
The women’s
tournament in 2010 was staged in Argentina, where the hosts triumphed
follow victory over the defending champions the Netherlands, while
England claimed third place.
The Germans and
the Dutch are the reigning men’s and women’s Olympic champions
respectively after claiming glory in London two years ago and both enter
the tournament as strong favourites to follow up their London 2012
success on the World Cup stage.
England’s men
are ranked fourth in the world behind the number one ranked team
Australia, Germany and their Dutch hosts and they find themselves in
Group A for the 2014 World Cup with the Aussies as well as Spain,
Malaysia, Belgium, India.
Currently ranked at world number three,
England’s will be hoping to go one stage further than World Cup 2010
and London 2012, where, despite going on to claim bronzes, they were
knocked out in the semi-final stages.They begin their campaign in Group B with 2010 winners Argentina and beaten finalists Germany, South Africa, China and the USA.
For the first time in 2014, Sky Sports will bring UK hockey fans unprecedented coverage of the FIH World Cup in the Netherlands.
All 76 matches
between the 24 teams from 15 countries will be broadcast live across the
Sky Sports network, starting on May 31 with England’s men taking on
Spain from 4.00pm, before England women’s first match against the United
States from 11.30am on June 1.
Sky Sports
F1 reporter Natalie Pinkham will present the channel’s coverage across
the two weeks and she will be joined by a host of esteemed guests who
will analyse the key events.
These
include 2012 Olympic bronze medallists Helen Richardson-Walsh and Chloe
Rogers, two-time Olympians Glenn Kirkham and Mel Clewlow, former
Trinidad & Tobago international Kwan Browne and former European gold
medallist Richard Mantell.
Sky’s
studio-based coverage of the tournament will be given the full Sky
Sports treatment, featuring the use of the ‘SkyPad’ for ind-depth match
analysis, as previously seen on Formula 1, football and tennis coverage.
Phil Marshall, Sky Sports producer, said: “We will show all of the matches, all the teams and all the players.
“Sky Sports
viewers can follow England’s men and women’s teams throughout the
competitions as well as the reigning world champions.
“With so many
men and women in the UK playing hockey regularly, I’m sure our World Cup
coverage will be a popular part of our summer of sport.”
Extra features, analysis, interviews and match reports can be found on the Sky Sports website, with additional, behind-the-scenes updates via Twitter
Don’t miss a moment from the 2014 Rabobank Hockey World Cup in The Hague in the Netherlands with Sky Sports.
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