Graham Reid (field hockey)

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Graham Reid
Personal information
Born (1964-04-09) 9 April 1964 (age 59)
Redcliffe City, Queensland
Sport
PositionDefender / Midfielder

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.

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[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 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.{{cite web}}: 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. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. "Coach Graham Reid per direct weg bij Amsterdam". hockey.nl (in Nederlands). 21 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  16. "Graham Reid appointed new Indian men's hockey team chief coach". The Times of India. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.

External links[edit]

Template:Australia FH Squad 2012 Champions Trophy