Belgium celebrate their Hockey World Cup 2018 victory. © AFP Belgium, Olympic silver medallists, defeated Netherlands 3-2 via a penalty shoot-out to win the FIH Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. After both teams failed to score in regulation time, Belgium edged past the three-time champions Netherlands to clinch the World Cup. For Belgium, Florent Van Aubel struck twice in the shootout while Victor Wegnez was on target once. Meanwhile, for the Netherlands Jeroen Hertzberger and Jonas de Geus scored once each.It was a great day for Belgium hockey as the country registered its second biggest international title after the Olympics silver in Rio in 2016.In the last edition of the World Cup at The Hague in Netherlands, Belgium had finished fifth.The Netherlands, on the other hand, failed to match Pakistan’s record of a fourth world title for the second consecutive edition.The Dutch had finished runners-up to Australia four years ago in front of their home crowd. They last won a World Cup title way back in 1998 in Utrecht.Incidentally, it was the Netherlands’ second consecutive match that went to shoot-out in the tournament after their victory over Australia in the semi-finals on Saturday.In Sunday’s…