NRHA’s Coaching Director Carlos Amaral will be taking a group of under 13 England hopefuls to Barcelos, Portugal this weekend to participate in a local tournament. The players were selected from clubs from all over the country who have attended our latest national training weekends.
The other clubs participating in this weekends tournament are AP. Porto, AP Minho–A and AP Minho-B. It is hoped our players will gain valuable experience from this competition which will give them an insight into playing International competition.
The players traveling are:-
Sam Cayley (GK), Michael Carter, Richard Claxton from Peterborough RHC
Ben Graff from East Grinstead RHC
Hanwei Lim, Josh Taylor from Kings Lynn RHC
Liam Conroy, Sam Norris from Bury RHC
Ben Barton, Sam Rowbottom, Alfie Sheppard from Herne Bay United RHC
Daniel Butcher, Kristoff White from Herne Bay RHC.
The management are:-
Head Coach Carlos Amaral, Assistant Coach Arthur Corr, Assistant Coach David White and
Manager Jane Carter.
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This weekend saw meetings between President Mr. Keith Allen, Technical Director, Mr. Carlos Amaral of the National Roller Hockey Association of England and the President of the Real Spanish Federation of Roller Skating, Mr Carmelo Paniagua manager of the RFEP, Xavier Moyano and the Technical Director Josep Ordeig also of the RFEP,. The objective of this weekend was to reach an agreement that helps the promotion of Roller Hockey in England. They have also agreed a mutual cooperation between both federations to promote and raise the technical ability of male and female Roller hockey within England. Both delegations will attend two professional Roller Hockey games over the weekend.
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SCRA St Omer (France) 1 – 4 FC Barcelona (Spain)
Satuday 4th February saw in front of a full house SCRA St Omer play
FC Barcelona in their home leg of the CERS Cup
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RSC Uttigen (Switzerland) v Herne Bay Utd
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SC Thunerstern (Switzerland) v FC Porto (Portugal)
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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.
