Mac’s Herne Bay Utd will play RSC Uttigen from Switzerland on Saturday 7th January 2006 (8pm start) at the Pier in the first round of the 2006 CERS Cup. HBU were scheduled to play Benfica (Portugal) in this opening round but Benfica withdrew from the competition at the last moment placing Uttigen at the pier in Mac’s HBU’s first match of 2006.
The return match will be played on 21st January 2006 in Uttigen Switzerland.
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England 7 – 3 Uruguay
England 5 – 2 Australia
Chile 9 – 1 England
England 0 – 9 Spain
Argentina 12 – 0 England
England 0 – 0 Germany
Brazil 8 – 0 England
At 12 midnight GMT. on Friday 2 December (Thursday 1 December at 9pm Argentina time) England Juniors will play Argentina Juniors at the World under 20 Championships in Argentina. The support will be huge for the Argentine team filling the 3,500 seat stadium, those that cannot get in will be able to watch the game on tv as all the Argentina games are televised. The England team are preparing for the game and are in good spirits.
Tuesday night was the begining of our big adventure. The start of the first leg of our journey saw our flight to Paris delayed by one and a half hours, this meant that we missed our departure to Buenos Aires from Paris. Air France put the team and management in a hotel for the night enabling us to catch our re routed fight to Buenos Aires via Atlanta USA. The new route was made up of two nine hour flights with a wait in Atlanta of 5 hours.
Once we arrived in Buenos Aires and a journey across the city to Jorge Newbery airport one day later we were informed by our airline, Lan Chile, all flights to Mendoza were fully booked until Sunday, Our first game was 6.30pm on Saturday.
With our backs to the wall we remembered the two private planes we had seen when we entered the airport. After looking through the yellow pages we asked a nice lady in the tourist information to make the call to the charter company to ask “how much for 14 people to Mendoza”. Once we got up off the floor we looked at the figures and decided to charter the plane and so the adventure has continued.
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England’s under 20 team will soon be travelling half way around the world to represent England at the under 20 World Roller Hockey Championships in Malargue, Argentina. The Championships will start on Saturday 26th November with the first match being England v Uruguay.
Kos Galtos (team coach), Martin Jupp (ass. Coach) and Gordon Morrison (manager) will be leading the team comprising of Matt Conroy, Kris Pay, Scott Willard, Jack Bishop, Kristan Oaten, Graeme Stewart, Jack Holmes, Michael Ableson, Ricky Jupp, and Ashley Pay. NRHA President Keith Allen, will also be in Malargue representing us at the delegates meetings and giving support to our boys.
The teams that will compete this year are Argentina, Colombia, USA, Brazil, Germany, England, Uruguay, Australia, Chile and Spain. Portugal withdrew from the championships last week due to the upper age limit being changed from 19 years to 20 years, four weeks before the start of the championships.
Winners 2005 European under 17′s
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All this week Ukrollerhockey will be covering the “Euro 2005 Quimper” this is the 2005 European under 17 Championships hosted in Quimper, France. England are competing in the competition under the leadership of Phil McVey, Dave White and Debbie Pughe. See all of the action here on UkRollerHockey
France 5 – 1 England
England 1 – 12 Spain
England 0 – 12 Portugal
England 0 – 2 Switzerland
England 0 – 6 Italy
England 1 – 8 Germany
Portugal 2 – 1 Spain
Portugal, winners of the 2005 Junior European Championships, Santander, Spain
The England Juniors matches list below
Tuesday 20th September start 17.00*
Portugal 7 – 2 England
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Wednesday 21st September start 15.30*
England 4 – 9 Switzerland
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Thursday 22nd September start 17.00*
England 0 – 11 France
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Friday 23rd September start 18.45*
England 1 v 9 Spain
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Saturday 24th September start 15.30*
Italy 5 v 0 England
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*British Summer Time
Last weekend saw the first phase of this years league cup at Bushfield Sports Centre in Peterborough. Teams from Bury, Grimsby, Herne Utd, Herne Bay Utd, Maidstone, Middlesbrough, Sheffield and a selection of the 2005 England Schoolboys entered this years competition.
This years tournament saw Herne Bay Utd enter for the first time, Carlos Amaral, Paul Colton and Dave White also used this competition the for their final selection of the England Schoolboys before the under 17 European Championship later this year in Quimper, France.
Mike Richardson NRHA’s top referee also used the 20 games played over the weekend competition to assess referees as an on going commitment to improved referee standards.
Sunday 11th September will see the final phase of the competition with all teams playing for the final positions. The venue will again be at the Bushfields Sports Centre in Peterborough starting at 10am with Letchworth v Mac’s Herne Bay Utd.
