Chief hockey coach Joaquim Carvalho on Monday said the Indian team would be picked on the basis on players' performance in the five-Test series against Belgium ahead of the the Chile Olympic Qualifiers in March.
"The five match series would be a good competitive event for India, since the performance of players could be assessed. It will also be the basis for selection of our team for the Chile event," Carvalho said.
Carvalho said India might be a higher ranked team than Belgium but they could not afford taking the opponent lightly.
"Belgium is a strong team, which plays European style hockey. They were no pushovers though they had been beaten by India in the Champions Challenge in Biel. They had beaten strong teams like Germany before gaining the Beijing Olympic berth," Carvalho said.
"Ranking is no criteria since Belgium have a record of having beaten much higher ranked teams."
The Indian coach said all players were fully fit except for Prabjoth Singh, who might miss the whole series.
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