Privatise Indian hockey: Charlesworth

8220;Corporatise hockey in India, that8217;s the best way to put in place a professional structure,8221; Charlesworth told reporters.

8220;Priorities in training programme should be decided by the coach and not by some bureaucrats. Three years ago I gave then IHF President KPS Gill a comprehensive programme, saying if you implement this India will rise by one spot yearly in the world rankings and by Beijing Olympics you will be placed world number 4, but unfortunately he never took it seriously.

8220;All the support staff of the team needs to have a proper contract,8221; he said.

Charlesworth, who had left the country in a huff citing inadequate working and living facilities beside non-payment of his bills, returned to India to get his dues cleared from the SAI before leaving for Australia tomorrow.

Charlesworth admitted that he was 8220;disappointed8221; to leave the job.

8220;One good thing is that Indian media is interested in hockey and transparency to the media is very essential,8221; he said.

8220;The reports are the only basis on which I am bargaining with SAI. But I have submitted all my 10 reports to the FIH and till now I am sustaining on the money I received from them,8221; Charlesworth said.

About his experience in the country, Charlesworth said he was aware about the hardships, but he still took up the assignment because it appealed to him as a challenge.

8220;I took up the India assignment as a challenge as I always knew it would be very difficult. But eventually it turned out to be even more difficult than I thought.

8220;I am disappointed to leave, but there was no point in staying as advisor when my suggestions were not accepted,8221; a dejected Charleswoth said.

8220;My main problem was putting in place a proper programme.

You need to have some continuity, you need to be structured.

Whatever you do, you need to have a system in place which is sympathetic toward local people.8221; He said the main reason behind the decline of hockey in the subcontinent, especially in India and Pakistan, was that instead of working towards rectifying their mistakes, they try to put the blame across after a debacle.

8220;It is pretty clear now that India and Pakistan are out of top six. First thing they should do is to accept their mistakes and not make excuses and then go about rectifying the grey areas and that8217;s why I was here.8221;

8220;India still has more resources in the game than any other country by a long way, but the support for the game is sleeping and dying in some places. The hockey administrators now need to revive them,8221; Charlesworth said.

Charlesworth is the front runner to take the charges of Australia senior men8217;s team after fellow Barry Dancer8217;s retirement.

The former New Zealand Cricket8217;s high-performance manager also emphasised on the training modules of the players and said adaptation to the modern day techniques was essential to compete at the elite league.

8220;Training sessions in India needs to be upgraded. They were still adopting the techniques of 708217;s. They must realise that they will have to cater to scientific methods to compete with teams life Australia, Netherlands and Spain,8221; said Charlsworth.

8220;You cannot coach on anecdotes, you need to have some reality, but here they don8217;t have a library. When I went to Rotterdam with the women8217;s team, I personally arranged for a video analyst but the SAI did not give the approval,8221; he added.