Captain Hollie hoping for hockey medal in the World Cup

The Hockey World Cup is just days away and England will open their account against India on July 3. New Zealand are next on July 5 and then it is China on July 7. 

The preparation is complete and the quest for a medal begins. 

Skipper Hollie Pearne-Webb told the official FIH website: “Obviously, we want a medal, that's the aim, but we're just going to have to see how it goes.  

“The Tokyo Olympics being postponed a year has made it very different in terms of our build up. We've got a relatively new Great Britain squad and then, out of that, we pick an England team.  

“So, it's a very young and exciting team going into this World Cup. We’ve probably not had as long together as we would have liked, but that could be a benefit for us because we're still at that kind of exciting stage about our journey.  

“So, we are very much looking forward to it. We would love a medal of course, but at the moment we're just trying to build game on game.”