Two thousands club development manuals and CDs have been produced and distributed worldwide to help this effort. The manual offers detailed information on creating and improving clubs, club management and junior club development.
In Continental Club Development workshops - to be held in the next six months - the materials will be explained, translated and adapted to meet the individual needs of the continental and national situation.
Dates and venues of the following continental workshops will be put on the www.worldhockey.org by September.
Theo Ykema, chairman of the FIH DCC, commented: “The materials that have been produced are extremely valuable not only to clubs but to all other institutions that offer sustainable hockey. The word “club” should be considered in a wider context, as a structure that provides a lifetime in hockey. Whether or not a country has an existing club structure is not important, as the club development information package can be used in all existing structures. It is a menu from which everybody can pick what they need to help build hockey in their environment.”
With this new initiative the FIH aims to create a network of 150 national club development experts.
