COVID19 impact: Indian women\'s hockey team\'s Dutch coach puts off plans to go home
The risk is too great that I can\'t return to India, says Sjoerd Marijne
New Delhi: The Indian women's hockey team chief coach Sjoerd Marijne was forced to put off his plans to visit his home country, The Netherlands due to the travel restrictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marijne was supposed to travel to The Netherlands on Friday night for a week during a brief break of the national camp of the women's hockey team but the 45-year-old Dutchman had to cancel his plans because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The campers are scheduled to assemble for the camp again at the SAI, South Centre in Bengaluru, on March 22.
"I was supposed to visit my family in The Netherlands during this break but I had to put of my plans because of the coronavirus outbreak. I don't want to risk myself and my family during this troubled times," Marijne told PTI from Bengaluru.
Marijne had earlier tweeted about his travel plans, saying he was forced to cancel his family visit because of the risk associated right now.
"Had to turn around on my way to the airport. The risk is too great that I can't return to India. Hard times for everyone and for me now that I can't see my family and I don't know when this is going to happen," he tweeted.
