Roller Hockey Photos

Here at Roller-Hockey photo we will be covering all the matches in Pontevedra/Vigo Teams Portugal, USA, Argentina, France, Germany, England, Italy and Chile in the First Phase so you can catch all the pictures on your favourite photo website.

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Pictures now on the Gallery

Saturday – Spain v Mozambique

Sunday - Chile v Argentina, USA v Portugal, Germany v France, England v Italy.

Monday - England v France, Argentina v USA, Italy v Germany, Chile v Porugal

Tuesday – Chile v USA, England v Germany, Italy v France, Argentina v Portugal

Thursday – Mozambique v Holland, Andorra v Columbia, Chile v England, Germany v USA

Friday – Holland v USA, Andorra v England, Mozambique v Germany, Columbia v Chile

Saturday – Colombia v USA, Holland v England, Mozambique v Columbia, Germany v Chile, Switzerland v Italy, France v Angola, Portugal v Brazil and SPAIN V ARGENTINA

Nine members of the England senior team arrived in Vigo, Spain yesterday (Friday) and due to work commitments Brendan Barker our tenth player will follow on Wednesday. After arriving in the northern Spanish town the team had a brief rest then travelled to the nearby rink home of Spanish first division club Vigo Stick for their first training session in Spain.

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Playing a conference competition is not a new thing we in the UK played it up until six years ago after which the Inter-Regional competition was introduced. Spain stage their conference competition in Oveido last weekend where the top team from each of the eight regions competed for the National under 17 champions. It was a treat for me to be able to go and photograph some of Spains future national team players. Josep Ordeig, Spains national coach was present for all of the three day tournament, may be looking for his U17 team for Dinan France in September. I managed to get some cracking shots of the young hopefuls and see some excellent Roller Hockey with friends from the Senior European championships of last year.

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Ten teams two days of roller hockey and one winner, CP Ribes from Spain. Congratulations to our European cousins from Catalunia who won the final beating Kings Lynn in a carefully planed attacking match. Teams from as far south as Plymouth all came together in the East of England to play for this prestigious trophy. This was a two day event starting on Saturday in two venues, Burwell and Soham and ending on Sunday at Soham with the final matches.

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Sometimes something funny happens in our sport of Roller Hockey and when its caught on video camera we can all share in the laughter. This clip was taken yesterday at the warm up match at the start of day three of the 2009 Coupe des Nations in Montreux, Switzerland. No people wear hurt in the making of this video. Ladies match, Juventus v Diessbach.

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SCRA St Omer had a convincing win (4-1) over bottom league team Nantes last Saturday at St Omer’s home venue. SCRA St Omer are currently the French National Division one league leaders and with only three matches left in the season St Omer are on target to win Frances top Roller Hockey league.

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For a third year in a row England Roller Hockey teams are participating in one the most pretigious tournaments in Portugal,
this year I have decided to take a Minors (players born in 1996 & 1997) and Intermediates (players born in 1994) teams, Minors are players involved on 2011 & 2012 projects and Intermediates are players involved on 2010 project. These projects are part of the Development Plan for our sport to develope players to attend their first European Under 17 Championships.

This tournament will take place in Sesimbra a town half hour away from Lisbon, starting on Thursday and finishing on Saturday. The team will fly out on Thursday morning and will return to England on Sunday morning. This tournament will have 4 teams participating in each level from Under 11 to Juniors giving an opportunity for our players to have a couple of competitive games and watch quality Portuguese teams.

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The prestigious Coupe Des Nations tournament will be held in Montreux Switzerland over the Easter holiday. Eight senior teams some of which are national squads will compete in this bi-annual competition. Coaches of national squads will use this competition to test players and try new tactics in preparation for the forthcoming world championships in Vigo Spain.

Roller Hockey competition at this level has been seen in Switzerland since 1921, England have had success in the past winning competitions on eight occasions ending in1950. Several English clubs have also won titles over the years, Herne Bay won in 1932 and 1938. One other English club, Faversham won in 1930.

England last competed at the Coupe des Nations in 2001.

Our Photographer Gordon Morrison will be at this years competition supplying pictures for the official website again, in the past he was the official photographer for 2005, 2007 Coupe des Nations and Mens World Roller Hockey Championships so look out over easter for his pictures on the Coupe des Nations website.

Herne Bay Utd took on the mighty Reus at the weekend in the Euro Champions League and played to their strengths, the match was end to end entertaining and full of excitement.

In the first half HBU took their chances and it paid off with them going ahead at 2 – 0 fourteen minutes into the match thanks to Brendan Barker and Neil Austin, Reus responded pushing HBU’s defence with plenty of shots on goal but Danny Barton king of the goal cage repeatedly stopped the force of one of Spain’s great clubs. Two goals followed in the first half from Reus taking the half time score 2-2.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the Reus changing room at half time, the language must have been colourful provoking the attitude adjustment which was evident at the beginning of the second half. Reus put in a couple more goals within the first ten minutes but Brendan Barker scored a wonderful goal (see picture) approx 13 mins. into the second half followed by another by Dendy Hudson 6 minutes later.

Final score HBU 4-7 Reus.
GOALS
Reus Pintado Caldu (x2), Matias Platero (x2), Marc Gual, Pedro Gil, Jori Molet
Herne Bay United Neil Austin, Dendy Hudson, Brendan Barker (x2).

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Herne Bay United took on the mighty Bassano at the Pier Pavilion last weekend in their fifth match in the current European Champions league. HBU are in pool B of the league along with Tenerife (Spain), Reus (Spain) and Bassano (Italy). Our boys in blue struggled against Bassano one of Italy’s top professional teams in a match which exhibited the differences between professional and amateur teams in our sport. The first half our boys struggled to keep possession but after half time HBU pushed hard and with several shots hitting the goal post were unlucky not to pick up a couple of goals. Final score HBU 0 – 21 Bassano.

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