{"id":12049,"date":"2012-12-02T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12049"},"modified":"2012-12-02T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:03:01","slug":"barry-anderson-named-hil-tournament-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12049","title":{"rendered":"Barry Anderson named HIL Tournament Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"images\/hil-logo.jpg\" alt=\"HIL players\u2019 auction to be held on Dec. 1 in Delhi\" height=\"150\" width=\"250\" \/><\/strong><\/strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Hockey India League (HIL) has appointed the seasoned Barry Anderson as Tournament Director for the six-team franchise-based event to be held from 17 January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey India Secretary General and Hockey India League Chairman Dr. Narinder Batra said the appointment of Anderson is a major step towards ensuring that the league is technically well conducted.\u201cTogether with Steve Catton\u2019s appointment as Competitions Director, Barry\u2019s coming on board as Tournament Director will make this a great event,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anderson said he was delighted to have been appointed Tournament Director. \u201cI am also looking forward to working with Hockey India, world class hockey players and team officials as well as some top class umpires and technical officials to make sure that the Hockey India League is well and truly a top-notch tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there may be challenges, I&#8217;m confident that Hockey India will present a top class tournament that will show the international community that India is more than capable of staging such an important event. It is one of the best events to which I&#8217;ve been appointed as a TD and am sure there will be many players and officials who feel the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old Mr. Anderson has conducted many events over recent years in this capacity. He been part of three FIH Champions Trophy tournaments including Chennai in 2005, three Champions Challenge tournaments, World Cup Qualifying Tournament and was TD at the 2011 European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"images\/hil-logo.jpg\" alt=\"HIL players\u2019 auction to be held on Dec. 1 in Delhi\" height=\"150\" width=\"250\" \/><\/strong><\/strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Hockey India League (HIL) has appointed the seasoned Barry Anderson as Tournament Director for the six-team franchise-based event to be held from 17 January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey India Secretary General and Hockey India League Chairman Dr. Narinder Batra said the appointment of Anderson is a major step towards ensuring that the league is technically well conducted.\u201cTogether with Steve Catton\u2019s appointment as Competitions Director, Barry\u2019s coming on board as Tournament Director will make this a great event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6000],"class_list":["post-12049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hockey-hockey","tag-hockey-india-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barry Anderson named HIL Tournament Director - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12049\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barry Anderson named HIL Tournament Director - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Hockey India League (HIL) has appointed the seasoned Barry Anderson as Tournament Director for the six-team franchise-based event to be held from 17 January 2013. 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