tokyo the indian womens hockey teams chief coach sjoerd marijne on friday revealed that the bronze medal match against great britain in the ongoing olympics was his last assignment with the sidethe 47yearold coached the indian womens hockey team to its best ever performance in the olympic games guiding them to a creditable fourth place finish herethe indian women came tantalisingly close to winning their maiden olympic medal before losing to great britain 34 in a close bronze playoff match hours after this feat marijne announced that it was his last assignment with the indian teami dont have any plans because this was my last match with indian women its upto janneka schopman now the dutchman told the indian media in a virtual press conferenceit has been learnt that both marijne and teams analytical coach janneka schopman were offered an extension by the sports authority of india sai but the former refused the offer due to personal reasonssources in the know of developments told pti that schopman is expected to take over marines position on a fulltime basis nowmarijne a former dutch player took over the reins of the indian womens team first in 2017 but was appointed the coach of the mens side later that yearhowever in 2018 he was redesignated the womens coach in a rejigging of rolesmarijne has played for the netherlands and guided the dutch under21 womens side to a world cup title and the dutch senior womens side to a gold at the hockey world league semi finals in 2015the affable dutchman has been unable to visit his family for the last 16 months due to the covid19 related travel restrictions and this could well be a major reason behind his decision of quitting the india job