bengaluru heading into what is set to be his last olympics indian mens hockey teams inspirational goalkeeper pr sreejeshs contagious confidence will be helpful for the sides 10 newcomers head coach graham reid said on fridaythe 36yearold who made his olympic debut in london 2012 and led at rio five years ago when they made a quarterfinal exit losing to belgium would be aiming to inspire the side once again in tokyo next monthhe is one of the best goalkeepers in the world in shootouts and he brings with him a confidence that is contagious he has a contagious confidence reid said in a virtual media interaction from the sports authority of india sai camp herewhat he does bring to the team is uniqueness sometimes its hard to explain but he certainly brings the group up if things arent going particularly well he has that experience the whole world knows himwe constantly are talking with him about being able to communicate in the best manner possible and thats what he does the aussie said in his glowing praise for sreejeshsreejesh is the lone goalkeeper in a 16member squad with krishan pathak in reserves but reid said hes also keeping two more guys ready in case of an injurywe are now training a couple of guys i really do not want to let you know who im training for that but we have had them in the last week or so in their padsheaven forbid that something like that needs to happen we will also be taking a separate set of goalkeeping pads for them if that was to happenbut it would need to be a very very serious injury for someone like sreejesh for not to finish out a game in the goals we have to have those whatif scenarios in place which we dothe indian team will have 10 members who will make their olympic debutsonly five players from the rio olympics have been retained with sreejesh and captain manpreet singh playing their third olympicsharmanpreet singh rupinder pal singh and surender kumar are the other three and there are some surprise omissions in sv sunil akashdeep singh and ramandeep singhbirendra lakra who missed rio due to a knee injury and surgery is making a comebackreid said the extra one year for the olympics meant that many more youngsters came throughif you look at the group as a whole a lot of them have played in the junior world cup and have won that we have some very good junior players that have come through they have progressed very well in the last 24 monthsfor example australia has nine debutants five years is a long time between olympics normally instead of four he saidon the surprise exclusions reid said i dont like to comment on any specific selection but in a broader answer it has got to do with the flexibility of the side to play across multiple lines in the heat and humidity of tokyoindia will open their olympic