new delhi fih pro league will help the indian women hockey team finetune its gameplan ahead of major tournaments this year says chief coach janneke schopman who also hinted at some experimentation during the eventthe indian team has a packed calendar ahead with several bigticket tournaments like the world cup commonwealth games and the asian games scheduledi want our team to perform and to be able to be at our best in a tournament like the world cup or asian games the players need to be at the level that they get the experience they need schopman said during a virtual media interaction arranged by hockey indiaand with covid happening our players didnt have that much experience in the last two two and a half years of playing actual games so the pro league will be a lot about how people are preserving their sport making sure that they can play and then also fine tuning our gameplayyoull see changes in our lineup but im not going to bring in 1015 new players or something she saiddespite not getting the desired result in the asian hockey cup last month schopman is happy with the teams progressthe india team failed to defend its title at the asian hockey cup last month in muscat finishing third however they began their pro league campaign with a bang drubbing china 71the girls did really well of course we didnt get the results we wanted in terms of scoreline but i was actually quite happy to see the progress throughout the tournament into the pro league schopman saidim really trying to focus on the way we want to play and how do we want to attack and how do we want to look as a team and i think we made big steps there so overall it wasnt a good experience not great in terms of outcomes but good in terms of progressthe indian team is now slated to meet spain on february 26 and 27 in the fih pro leaguethe matches against netherlands have been postponed after the dutch womens team pulled out of its backtoback fih pro league matches that were scheduled to be played in bhubaneswar on february 19 and 20 due to rise in covid19 cases in the european countrytalking about the preparations schopman said its just like changing gears netherlands played spain a week ago so we had those games and instead of looking at the netherlands you look at spain nowspain is a very good team a very skilful team theyd like to move the ball well and create a technical opportunitiesschopman took over from sjored marijne who left after a successful olympic campaign and the new coach has already implemented some changes according to her philosophynow is the time for india to make the next step and next step is playing these teams and maybe winning to becoming a more dominant team if we want to be more dominant we have to go more if we win the