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Hamm Herringen in Germany will host this years under 20 European Roller Hockey Championships from 29th September to 4th October. Seven teams will compete for this bi-annual title, Germany, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and England. England will play the first match against Italy on the first day at 17.30 BST+1. Our boys will play every day except the final day in this round robin competition and are looking for a successful result. See the results and pictures here on Roller-Hockey Photos.

Match Schedule and Results

PORTUGAL WINNERS 2008 UNER 20 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Over the next seven days we will be covering in photos the Mens Senior European Championships in Oviedo Spain. The Competition starts on Monday 21st July and runs for six days starting with Switzerland v Germany.

Watch this website to see all the best photos of the tournament with all the up to date results.

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England Seniors 2008

This week Carlos Amaral NRHA’s head coach announced the team that will represent England at this year’s Seniors European Championships in Oviedo Spain. The bi-annual championships will start on Monday 21st July at 3.45pm with Switzerland v Germany. Our boys will have their first match against the unforgiving Portugal at 7.15pm (6.15pm British time). England are in the same group as Portugal, Switzerland and Germany, at the last Senior European championships in Monza, Italy our team were victorious over Germany. Switzerland have a new team this year and expectations of a successful tournament for the Brits are high. Congratulation to the following players who will be going to Spain on Sunday.

Russell Lloyd (Plymouth RHC)
Marc Waddingham (Grimsby RHC)
James Taylor (Hockey Sarzana, Italy)
Grant Zaccaria (Middlesbrough RHC)
Michael Ableson (Middlesbrough RHC)
Karl Smith (Herne Bay United RH&SC)
John Jones (Middlesbrough RHC)
Ian Smith (Middlesbrough RHC)
Ian Morrison (Areces, Spain)
Marc Rutland (Middlesbrough RHC)

Management
Carlos Amaral
Ron Barker
Steve Taylor

Tenerife 2008 CERS Cup Winners

The final four teams of the 2007/8 CERS cup will compete this weekend in Quevert France. Clubs from all over Europe registered last year to participate in this prestigious annual home and away competition. We Only had one English team, Bury RHC, who played Viareggio at Soham on 20th October last year, unfortunatly Bury were knocked out of this competition in the first round after a defeat at Soham and in Viareggio.

Now you can see the pictures of the final four teams of this years semi final and final.

Last weekend I photographed the Spainish National Div. one match Areces v Tordera in the small town of Grado near Oviedo in Northern Spain. Areces are pushing for the top of league one with the hope of promotion to Division of Honour (the Spanish premier league) next year. Look out for the faces you may have seen playing for Spain in past European and World Championships.

Final score, Areces 3 – 1 Tordera.

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SCRA St Omer had a convincing win (8-2) over mid league team Ploufragan last Saturday at the St Omer home venue. SCRA St Omer are a semi professional team and are currently the French National Division one league leaders. With only eight matches left in the season St Omer are on target to win Frances top Roller Hockey league.

Keep an eye open for the pictures showing “stick bend” the phenomenon that occurs when energy is transferred when the stick strikes ball.

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What a Tournament! Four matches, all went to extra time and two then went to penalties. This years Spanish Princes cup was hosted at the venue of the current holders, Areces . The home crowd saw four teams Areces, Macenet, Vigo Stick and Sitges (all National Division 1 teams) play some great hockey over Saturday evening and Sunday.

Over the years I get to see the European National teams compete and team players working as a unit. Watching this tournament between clubs you see the same team members batterling and exhibiting their skills against each other, I’m sure that some of you who have played for England will recognise some of the team so watch this space to see some of the action from last weekend.

Congratulations to Macanet who won the 2008 Princes Cup host in Grado, Spain.

Maçanet – Sitges 3-2
Areces Elecinco – Vigo Stick 2-3
Areces Elecinco – Sitges 3-4
Maçanet – Vigo Stick 6-4

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The weekend of the 2-3 February will see the Princes Cup (La Copa de S.A.R. El Príncipe) contested at the home venue of last years winners C P Areces. The Princes Cup is the Spanish National Division ones equivelent to the Division of honour’s Kings Cup, the top three teams of the Spanish Nat 1 after this weekends matchs will qualify. C P Areces automaticlly qualify as last years winners. As top of Nat League 1 stands now Sitges have qualified on points so there are four other posible teams for the two remaining places that could be competing (GEiEG, Alcon, Vigo Stick and SHUM Massanet). We will be photographing the four matches and all the best pictures will be posted here the following Wednesday.

Herne Bay Utd 0 FC Porto 21

At the last of Herne Bay United’s home matches in the Euro League last Saturday we saw the host team on the constant defence. FC Porto one of Europe’s strongest teams powered on the pressure from the start, HBU held the Portuguese giants at arms length but after a period of testing the opposition the visitors started to notched up the goals. As the final score shows fitness was an issue for the non professional hosts, having said that, Brendan Barker along with Simon Hoskin and Neil Austin created many breaks but were unable to put ball between the goal posts.

During the second half HBU had a change to dinghy Porto’s goalkeeper a clean sheet with a penalty but Phil McVey failed to score after hitting the crossbar. The two HBU goalkeepers Dan Barton and Paul Nelson played to their best but this mountain was just too high to conquer.

HBU are away at CP Vic in Spain next month in there fifth European League match.

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