BHF earmarks Bonnet
The Coaches' Hunt Committee of the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) have earmarked Giles Bonnet, a FIH grade 1 coach, for the position of the Bangladesh national hockey team's head coach after the Dutchman impressed the committee with a written description of how he would develop hockey in the country.
Bonnet has 20 years of experience, coaching national the teams of South Africa, Belgium and China as well as club sides in the Netherlands and China.
“We have got the resumes of some high-profile coaches including the World Cup wining coach of Australia, but we have chosen Giles Bonnet for his varied experiences, which include coaching youth, coaching national teams and coaching coaches,” said committee member and BHF joint secretary Anvir Adil Khan yesterday.
Bonnet, who is working as head coach of the Liaoning province of China, worked with South Africa from 1996-2000 and took them to the 2000 Sydney Olympics before joining Belgium in 2001. He worked there for six years and then took up the post of assistant coach of China from 2007 to 2008.
Bonnet had also been the manager of Amsterdam Hockey Academy from 2006 to 2008 and was the head coach of the South Africa women's team from 2010 to 2014.
Having gathered information available on the internet, Bonnet prepared a future programme for Bangladesh, depicting how he could take them to further heights and Bonnet's presentation and interest in Bangladesh has impressed the BHF committee enough to place their faith in him.
“We have offered him 5,000 dollars per month, apart from local expenditures such as accommodation, food and transportation and we are awaiting his reply,” said Anvir, adding that if both parties reached a consensus, the BHF would sign a deal with Bonnet in either August or September for a one-year period and monitor his performance during Bangladesh's World Hockey League (Round-2) campaign scheduled to be held in Dhaka from March 2017.
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