Our England seniors are currently at the Euro Roller Games in Monza Italy (Senior European Championships). Ian Smith, Grant Zachria, Andrew Gregory, Bendan Barker, Karl Smith, James Taylor, Michael Ableson, Ian Morrison, Graeme Stewart and Joe Wheatley.
The England team who are sponsered by “Federal” a Roller Hockey equipment manufacturer will compete with teams from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Andorra, Austria and France over the next six days.
See the photos here on Ukrollerhockey.
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The girls relaxing in the Mediterranean after the tournament
The England ladies were in Spain last weekend competing at the Tarradellas Cup in Blanes, Spain. Head England coach Carlos Amaral and manager Dave Fothergill are currently putting our England ladies through a challenging series of international tournaments in preparation for the World Ladies Championships in Vina del Mar, Chile at the end of September.
See the photos of the England v Chile match
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Imagine a game of roller hockey with 2 field players and a keeper on each team, a portable rink 24 x 11 metres with twelve minutes each way in 35°C next to the beach in Spain. That’s the “Oktitans”. Last weekend Ian Morrison, James Taylor and Brendan Barker were all invited to compete for the €3000 first prize. Top names from the roller hockey world all played in this action packed tournament in the small Mediterranean town of Vilanova south on Barcelona. Our boys played well managing to get to the quarter finals knocking out some of the big names from the top divisions in Spain.
SEE THE FOTOS
Last weekend saw our England ladies win bronze at the Waldercup in Vordemwald, Switzerland. The squad of nine coached by Carlos Amaral with assistant coach Darrel Pearce and Manager Dave Fothergil used this tournament in preparation for the ladies World Championships in Vina Del Mar, Chile at the end of September.
Next weekend the girls travel to Spain to compete in the Golden Cup tournament in Blanes. This tournament and one another in Noisy le Grand, France will give the girls a higher level of hockey and the chance to play against players who will also be in Chile.
SEE THE FOTOS OF THE WALDLERCUP.
The French National Cup was contested in La Roche Sur Yon last Saturday. After a 10 hour bus journey travelling with the defending Cup winners to the host town we saw a great match of skill and speed. Last years cup winners and this years League winners SCRA St Omer went ahead 2 – 0 in the early part of the match. La Vendéenne (from La Roche Sur yon) battled hard to score 3 goals to finish 3 – 2 at have time.
The second half saw La Vendéenne pressure St Omer into some hard defending but last years cup winners could not fight off the excellent play from the host team. The final score was
La Vendéenne 5 – 3 St Omer.
SEE THE PHOTOS
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This weekend will see the Senior National play off’s at Bushfield Sports Centre in Peterborough on Saturday 10th June 2006.
At the end of the day first and second are in the 2007 Premier League and third and forth will be in the 2007 National Division 1
09.30 Sheffield v Maidstone
10.20 Southsea v Letchworth
11.30 Sheffield v Southsea
12.40 Sheffield v Letchworth
13.50 Maidstone v Letchworth
15.00 Maidstone v Southsea
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Last weekend saw Middlesbrough push Letchworth to the play offs. Letchworth will now have to pull something out of the bag to stay in the Premier league. The team from Hertfordshire will need to finish in the top two of the play offs at Bushfields Sports centre in Peterborough on Saturday 10th June.
On the day, Middlesbrough were quietly confident of a win after Letchworth’s past four games form. When it was all over the Boro. boys were happy with this season’s final league table finishing third only 7 points from Bury the 2006 Premier league runners up.
Now see the pictures
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Congratulations to Bury, Winners of the 2006 Lennards Cup
2 Herne Bay United
3 Herne United
4 Southsea
5 Farnham
Saturday 27th May
Southsea 7 – 1 Farnham
Herne Utd 4 – 5 HBU
Farnham 3 – 9 Bury
Southsea 3 – 7 HBU
Herne Utd 2 – 4 Bury
Sunday 28th May
Farnham 1 – 10 Herne Utd
Southsea 3 – 12 Bury
Farnham 1 – 10 HBU
Southsea 2 – 8 Herne Utd
HBU 0 – 4 Bury
Top Scorer Carlos Amaral. Best Player George Goulbourne. Best Goalkeeper Steven Dudley
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Saturday 27th May 2006
HBU2. 12 – 9 SHEFFIELD
Sunday 28th May 2006
LETCHWORTH 4 – 6 MIDDLESBROUGH
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Over the last week we have put together a collection of England team photos from National tournaments from around the world.
The collection is still incomplete but we are looking to fill the gaps with unpublished pictures from various sources, this will give us a comprehensive gallery of the aspirations of our national team players.
A link has been provided for easy loction in the “Latest Pictures” catagory
NATIONAL TEAMS ALBUM
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