The home victory gave Albania 12 points, four behind the Italians. Oltmans has been in India for a fairly long time, and the team’s performance in his last assignment – the European tour – was decent. Austria stayed on eight points, almost certainly out of the running. Hockey India wants a coach who can get results, podium finishes, says High Performance Director David John. Getting a big-name foreign coach and sacking him after a few poor results would prompt others to think twice about coming to India and would be akin to papering over the cracks. The result left Spain in control of Group G with 19 points, three more than Italy, with three games left in European qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. those factors while we are searching for new coach who can take this group forward. Zambia striker Brian Mwila hit the woodwork in the opening minutes, headed in Zambia’s first in the sixth minute, and made it 2-0 in the 32nd. And wasn’t it just over a year ago that Oltmans was being credited with guiding India to podium fini. My expertise will be in physical preparation, mental preparation, nutritional and I will look at all.