HI secretary general Narender Batra also announced a few other initiatives that the parent body intends to take up in its bid to improve the national hockey team's disastrous performance at the London Olympics.
"We intend to appoint a high performance manager by end of next month. He will be overseeing the performance of both men's and women's teams with the senior national coaches reporting to him. His job will be to see the successful implementation of coaching from senior to sub junior," Batra stated today.
He also informed that a few names have already come up for discussion, but they will zero in on a name only in a month's time.
Although Batra denied that the step is being taken to clip Nobbs complete authority on the team, he could not come up with a convincing answer.
"The concept of high performance manager has been prevalent in many top hockey playing nations and obviously the man who will be selected will have the respect of both the coach and the players.
"We have intimated Nobbs about our decision to appoint a high performance manager and he is game for it," said Batra.
Whether the high performance manager will be allowed to interfere in the tactical and strategic decisions of the team, Batra said, "Yes, he will have the authority to deal in technical matters also."
Although HI is looking at a person, who will be able to continue till Rio Olympics 2016, there will be an annual assessment of his performance.
Meanwhile, both Nobbs and team physiologist, David John would continue at their respective posts. (MORE)
