Reid focuses on togetherness and team spirit ahead of Junior World Cup
The HinduChief coach Graham Reid and captain Vivek Sagar Prasad on Friday underscored the ‘team first’ approach in defending champion India’s preparation for the Junior World Cup, starting at Bhubaneswar from November 24. “A lot of exercises, drills and terminology we used with the senior team has been dribbled down to the junior team.” READ: Two athletes COVID-19 positive in Beijing Games warmup events The Australian said getting to know the junior players and communicating with them were the two primary challenges for him. Drawing comparisons with the senior team’s Tokyo campaign without much match practice, Reid said it was difficult to know “where we are” and acknowledged the difficulty of not getting videos of the other junior sides. We will go match by match and I will try to keep the team together,” said Vivek, who missed the 2016 Junior World Cup due to an injury.
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