Roller Hockey Photos

The 28th Under 17’s European Championships started yesterday here in Dinan, France. Eight teams are competing for the prestigious trophy with France, England, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Andorra all wanting to make their mark. Although a live stream of the matches is being provided by the hosts our reporting team have not been given access to a viable Internet connection so we will be posting your pictures the next day from the local Internet Café.

Monday 14/9 England 1 – 3 Italy
Tuesday 15/9 England 1 – 1 Switzerland
Wednesday 16/9 England 0 – 9 Spain
Thursday 17/9 Portugal 10 – 0 England
Friday 18/9 England 3 – 6 Germany
…………………………………………………………………Saturday 19/9 England 2 – 0 Switzerland

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The Ladies team made history by finishing on the podium in 3rd place for the Ladies Under 19 European Championships, which was held in Mealhada, Portugal from 3rd – 5th September.

I am very pleased with the achievement of our team in this competition beating Germany 3-2 for 3rd places, considering we lost 6-3 in the group stages earlier, this result was an excellent reaction from our team.

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A historical result for the our England under 19′s ladies tonight (Saturday) in winning bronze at the Under 19′s 2009 European Championships in Portugal. In their last match of the championships England were victorious over Germany winning 3-2 (3-1 at half time). Congratulations to our girls and very well done.

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The Quevert club in Dinan France will be the focal point of young roller hockey players during the week commencing 14th September with the under 17’s European Roller Hockey Championships. Eight teams will compete for this annual title, Andorra, Germany, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and England. England will play their first match against Italy on the first day of this two pool tournament. Each team play one match each day with the first game starting around 4.30pm with three further evening matches. The Under 17’s European’s under the direction of the CERH is an introductory level to official International competition within Europe for our young players and is often the debut of many great players.

During the week we here at Roller Hockey Photos will try to get you the best of the action so you’ll see the pictures here daily on www.Roller-Hockey.co.uk.

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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