But the trend that started with him continues to this day — of foreign coaches coming with high hope. The German was India’s first tryst with a foreign coach in a sport where eight Olympic gold medals were supposed to mean the country needed no outside help. I think everyone who has been following Indian hockey know the progress we have made. Gareth Bale also went close with a left-foot shot to ignite a crowd desperate to see a rerun of Wales’ Euro 2016 heroics. ’Algeria may regret the decision to allow Riyad Mahrez to leave the team camp to sort out his club future. More relevant numbers: Federer was broken eight times total in those matches, but only once against Lopez. Wilmots was brought in as coach after Ivory Coast, the defending champion, crashed out of the African Cup of Nations in Gabon in the first round at the beginning of the year. Sharing the group lead with Ireland before the game, Serbia went top outright after victory in Belgrade while its rival was held to a 1-1 draw at Georgia. The emergence of his younger brother, however, helped inspire Mischa to go for it again and he will . And wasn’t it just over a year ago that Oltmans was being credited with guiding India to podium fini.