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Carlos Amaral, National Coaching Director, has announced the England Under 20 Team to participate in the World Championships which will take place in Barcelos, Portugal 11th to 17th September 2011.

Goal Keepers
Matt Stearn – Peterborough RHC
Sam Cayley – Peterborough RHC
Outfield Players
Hanwei Lim – Peterborough RHC
Josh Taylor – Kings Lynn RHC
Liam Conroy – Igualada (Spain)
Michael Carter – Peterborough RHC
Nicholas Flint – Peterborough RHC
Sam Norris – Bury RHC
Sam Norton – Bury RHC
William Smith – Middlesbrough RHC

The final squad has been announced to participate in the Group A World Championship which takes place in San Juan, Argentina from 24 September till 1 October 2011.

Dan Milne (Gk) – Cambridge
Ian Morrison (Gk) – Areces (Spain)
Craig Gibson – Letchworth
Grant Zaccarias – Middlesbrough
James Taylor – Bassano (Italy)
Karl Smith – HBU
Marc Waddingham – Grimsby
Michael Ableson – Middlesbrough
Owen Stewart – Middlesbrough
William Smith – Middlesbrough

Head Coach: Carlos Amaral
Manager: Keith Allen
Assistant Coach: Joe Wheatley
Mechanic: Steve Taylor

The team will depart on Thursday 22 September and will return on Monday 3 October.

There is in place a preparation plan running up to the competition which includes a tournament in Wimmis, Switzerland prior to our departure to Argentina.

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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Euro League roller hockey is not for England but you could see it if you take a day trip on the tunnel to St Omer France, yes it is a long day but with a bit of shopping a french meal and an evening of quality roller hockey at the town’s rink its a day you wouldn’t forget.

Last Saturday SCRA St Omer played their January Euro League match against Italy’s premier league winners Follonica. The visitors took the first goal of the match much to the disgust of the 600 home grown spectators, the home team soon rallied and made the score even with everything to play for. Follonia took the match with a final score of 1-2 but it could have gone either way.

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SCRA St Omer took on the mighty Barcelona to a packed house at their rink in Chemin du Brockus last Saturday. The french 2010 National League winners fought hard throughout the match to score but coming up against a strong defence from the spanish meant a clean sheet for the catalunians. Some familiar faces from the world champion spanish national team were included in the Barcelona side giving a spectacular display of skill.

St Omer players performed very well against some of the big names and must be congratulated for holding the loosing final score down to 0-5.

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Spain took gold againthis year at the Euro under 20′s in Darmstadt, Germany. Teams from Spain, France, England, Switzerland and Germany all competed at the four day championship which concluded in the following final placings.

1 Spain
2 Germany
3 England
4 Switzerland
5 France

We must send our congratulations to the organising committee for a spectacular opening and closing ceremony along with the all the volunteers that made these championships a success.

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The 10th Ladies World Roller Hockey Championship opened today in Alcobendas, near Madrid Spain. All the participating counties attended a spectacular opening ceremony accompanied by an award winning group of artistic skaters. After the opening ceremony the host nation took on Japan in the first match of the championships which will be played to the old rules, each day will have eight matches for the remainder of the tournament. But as the CIRH has an assembly no matches will be played on the Wednesday.

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The England ladies team will be travelling to Alcobendas (north of Madrid) at the end of this week to compete in the 10th Ladies World Roller Hockey Championships from 25th September to 2nd October. The sixteen teams competing are from Germany, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA, France, India, England, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa and Switzerland.

Congratulations to the players below for making our team representing England

* Emma Russell (GK)
* Rachel Joy (GK)
* Beth Cook
* Chloe Stevenson
* Claire Currey
* Emily Rawlinson
* Emily Sheppard
* Kirsty Ingham
* Lucy Rivers
* Ruth Russell
We will be covering the Championships with a small selection of pictures being added to our gallery during the competition.

The 49th Senior European Roller Hockey Championships started this week in Wuppertal Germany. Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, England and Germany have all entered teams in this Bi-annual event. Pictures of the matches will be available to in our photo gallery throughout the championships.

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