Australia's champion hockey player Jamie Dwyer has retired from internatiional duties but has vision of coaching the Kookaburras. Source: Getty Images

JAMIE Dwyer has flagged his interest in coaching the Australian men's hockey team in the future.

Dwyer, a triple Olympian and captain of Australia's only Games gold medal team, has already embarked on a coaching career, having taken up the role leading the men's ones at local club YMCC Coastal City.

The club job is in addition to his DwyerOnline.com coaching business and 1&9 Coaching, a hockey tuition program he runs with teammate Mark Knowles.

Dwyer this week returned to Perth after a London campaign that netted his second Olympic bronze - the team also finished third at Beijing - and the 33-year-old confirmed it was his final Games.

He said coaching the Kookaburras, a side that had been such a large part of his life, was a future goal.

"I love hockey and I'd like to stay involved in hockey.

"(Coaching) is definitely a possibility, but I need to think about whether I'm going to carry on my career first and I've got a few things outside of hockey that I'm interested in as well.

"(Coaching the national side) would be good and I think I'd like to do it.

"I've got a lot to learn before then and I don't think I'd do it in the next 10 years, but after that and down the track, it's definitely a possibility.

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