Roller Hockey Photos

2011 is an exceptional year for Montreux, Switzerland the town of the bi-annual top Senior Men’s International tournament “Coupe des Nations”. On the run up and over the Easter weekend eight teams including Argentina, Spain, Portugal France, Germany, Angola and Macau with host club Montreux Hockey who celebrate their centenary this year.

Coupe des Nations is the top International tournament where the best teams in the world compete on the run up to the Senior World Roller Hockey Championships in San Juan, Argentina in September 2011. The venue “Pierrier in Clarens” on the outskirts of Montreux will on 20th to 24th April have the roller Hockey eyes of the world clearly focused on the world class teams to get a taste of whats to come later in the year in South America.

This year Gordon & Debbie Morrison have been invited to take the official action photos for the tournament organisation for the website and supplied to the worldwide press. “Its great to be able to photograph some of the best teams in the world” said photographer Gordon Morrison.

Areces took on the Spainsh Nation div 1 league leaders last night in a thrilling end to end match. Early in the first half SHUM Grupo Maestre took the lead with a lucky penalty when Areces goalkeeper Ian Morrison saved the initial shot but the referee disaloud the shot due to a player prematurely crossing the line. The second attempt ended in a successful goal after the ball deflected off the goalkeepers skate.

Throughout the match we saw no more goals but very good defending from both sides with the final score ending at 0-1 to the relief on the faces of the players from SHUM Grupo Maestre.

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