With Hockey India’s stern refusal to go along with many of his demands, Indian national men’s hockey team chief coach Terry Walsh has been decided to quit.

His one year contract comes to an end today

Under Walsh, Indian men’s team has shown tremendous improvement, clinching gold at the Asian Games, winning a Series against mighty Australia and silver at the Commonwealth Games.

When it looked almost all issues have been thrashed out in the three marathon meetings the expert committee has had so far, Hockey India President Narender Batra cast a strong accusation on Terry Walsh over his ‘financial dispute’ with his former employer United States hockey.

Its unfortunate of all the sections involved Hockey India took a strong stand that prevented the master coach continue for another year.

Incidentally, coach of the 1998 Asian Games team, MK Kaushik was also sacked days after India winning the Asian Games gold after a gap of 32 years.

Such whimsical sacking will not help Indian hockey improve.