Graham Reid (sportsman)

Graham Reid (born 9 April 1964) is a former Australian field hockey player who played as a defender and midfielder for the Australian national team.

Graham Reid
Personal information
Born (1964-04-09) 9 April 1964
Redcliffe City, Queensland
Playing position Defender / Midfielder
Club information
Current club India (coach)
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Australia 130 (36)
Teams managed
Years Team
2014–2016 Australia
2017–2019 Netherlands (assistant)
2017–2019 Amsterdam
2019– India
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
1992 BarcelonaTeam
World Cup
1990 Lahore
Champions Trophy
1984 Karachi
1985 Perth
1989 Berlin
1990 Melbourne
1986 Karachi
1992 Lahore
1987 Amstelveen
1988 Lahore

He was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[1] Afterwards he played club hockey for the Dutch top team Amsterdam for two seasons (1993, 1994)[2] returning in 1995 to play the Europa cup.

Reid played 130 internationals for Australia scoring 36 goals including two Olympic Games (1988, 1992),[1] one World Cup (1990) and nine Champions Trophies (1984, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92). He has also won the Olympians medal (WA Best and Fairest medal) 3 times (1995, 96, and 98) whilst playing for Victoria Park Panthers.[3]

He was also an inaugural member of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) hockey unit in Perth, Western Australia in 1984[4] and despite stints back in Queensland and Amsterdam has remained in Perth, where he lives with his wife Julia and two children, Scott and Emma.

Managerial career

In 2009, he was appointed assistant coach of the Australian Men's Hockey Team (Kookaburras).[5] During this time he was given the opportunity to take on the head coach position for the Champions Trophy in Melbourne in 2012. He guided the team to their 5th consecutive Champions Trophy gold medal.[6] In October 2013 he was given another opportunity to lead the Kookaburras at the Oceania Cup in Stratford, New Zealand. Here the Kookaburras won the Oceania Cup by defeating New Zealand 5 - 2 in the final and qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Den Haag. .[7]

In 2014[8] he and Paul Gaudoin co-coached the Kookaburras to a Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In September 2014[9] he was announced as the head coach of the Kookaburras following the retirement of Ric Charlesworth.

During 2015 the Kookaburras continued their successful reign as world number 1 with qualification for the 2016 Rio Olympics by winning the World League Semi-Final[10] tournament in Antwerp after beating Belgium after the final whistle. The World League final was held in December 2015 in Raipur, India. Australia again was victorious in the final of this competition defeating Belgium again,[11] capturing the only World title to have alluded Australia.

On 21 November 2015 Graham was inducted into the Queensland Hockey Hall of Fame.[12]

In the Olympic year, the Kookaburras won the 14th Champions Trophy held in London in June 2016.[13] It was Reid's 2nd Champions Trophy title as head coach. It finished controversially after Australia defeated India in the final after sudden death penalty shootouts (3-1).

After the 2016 Summer Olympics, he stepped down[14] as the Australia head coach and in 2017 he became the head coach of his former club Amsterdam and the assistant coach of the Dutch national team. In March 2019, he was dismissed as Amsterdam coach after an 8–2 loss to HGC in the league and alleged interest from the Indian national team for his services.[15] In April 2019 he was appointed as the head coach of the Indian national team, which also meant he had to leave his position as assistant coach of the Dutch national team.[16]

gollark: I'm probably... libcenter-ish, definitely anti-authoritarian.
gollark: Anarchism doesn't really seem like a particularly consistent system as much as a vague hope that stuff will magically work.
gollark: Or, well, sort of does but not really.
gollark: But the company doesn't exist now.
gollark: I had a Wileyfox Swift before, which was very niche but had a removable battery and ran LineageOS and whatnot.

References
  1. Olympic results Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Amsterdam tegen wil en dank titelkandidaat (translation)
  3. http://www.hockeywa.org.au/2006_lifemembers.cfm?awardType=Olympians'%20Medal Olympians Medal Winners
  4. AIS Annual Report 1984-85, p40
  5. Pakistan go down vs SA 7 March 2010
  6. http://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/ric-charlesworth-hands-reins-to-graham-reid-and-kookaburras-reap-champions-trophy-success/story-fndukor0-1226534066047
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. http://www.smh.com.au/commonwealth-games-glasgow-2014/commonwealth-games-news/kookaburras-take-gold-with-easy-win-over-india-20140803-10025k.html
  9. https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/24904065/kookaburras-start-new-era/
  10. "Kookaburras steal late win in World League".
  11. "Australia's Kookaburras win World League Final, beating Belgium 2-1 in Raipur".
  12. "Hockey Queensland Hall of Fame recipients".
  13. "Kookaburras win 14th Champions Trophy in London".
  14. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-13/kookaburras-coach-quits-following-teams-olympic-disappointment/7929386. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. "Coach Graham Reid per direct weg bij Amsterdam". hockey.nl (in Dutch). 21 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  16. "Graham Reid appointed new Indian men's hockey team chief coach". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of India. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.