New name in China’s coaching staff

Eva Drummond (before Goede) is the new Alyson Annan assistant, coach of the China women’s team. This delimited a new chapter within the race of the Dutch, who continues to play in Australia.

In 2006, with approximately 17 years, he had his first games with the Netherlands shirt. With 266 CAPS and 45 goals marked for your country, Drummond is one of the few Dutch players to get Olympic champion three times. 18 years after his first time in the major selection, on April 15, 2024 he said goodbye to that part of his career. In his networks he said: “I owe a lot to hockey. My love for the game allowed me to dream, experience great memories and form incredible relationships. The constant love and support I received during all these years is what I am really grateful. Thank you”.

Among all the championships they won are the three Olympic golds (2008, 2012 and 2020 (2021); in 2016 he stayed with the silver medal at the 2016 River Olympic Games; four World Cups, three golds in a followed in 2014, 2018 and 2022, and a silver in 2012; It has four golds in the European championship, a bronze and one silver; (2021-22 the year that the lions left champions). In turn, he has several individual awards during all those years. Eva Drummond’s career is completely extraordinary.

At Club levels, in 2024 he was champion with AH & BC Amsterdam in the end 8 of the Euro Hockey League. After not being summoned for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, He decided to continue his career in Australia, specifically in Perth Thundersticks, and achieved his first championship of the Liberty Hockey One League with that shirt.

In this season of Pro League (2024/25) he participates from the other hand, together with Alyson Annan, which we remember was his coach from 2015 to 2021. Annan is the Head Coach of the China women’s team since 2022, and that acquisition generated great growth of the Asian team, which achieved the silver medal in Paris 2024. What Eva Drummond can contribute to this group is immense, in addition to what she can learn in This new role and the duo with Annan is surely more than positive. You could say what team where Eva is, a team that wins something, and although we do not want to condition this new phase of the player, the illusion that continues to accumulate achievements, now as Asisstant Coach, It is something impossible not to believe.