Roller Hockey Photos

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.