National Roller Hockey Association

Professional coaches to guide us, professional players to demonstrate!!! It was a pleasure to watch coach Fernando Falle, his staff and players in action at the 2002 Summer Camp at Buckmore Park last week.
“It was surprising how simple some of the training techniques were and yet how effective they proved to be”, said Peter Maisey […]

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This was the very clear message from Fernando Falle at this weekends coaching course at Buckmore Park.
Fernando is the professional coach to Club Infante Sagres, one of the top ten teams in the World. He brought his team over to Buckmore and they gave superb demonstrations of top class roller hockey as they cruised past […]

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PRH recently caught up with England Senior Captain, Andrew Ashurst, who is originally from Plymouth. He told us that he started playing Roller Hockey at the age of 7 when “Someone came up to me the same day that I put on my first pair of skates and asked if I wanted to try the […]

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Last weekend the Portuguese Refereeing Federation gave refereeing in this country a huge boost by sending expert, Jorge Pauleta, to run an intensive training course as part of the Buckmore Park Training Camp.
“It was fantastic to have such a top level Referee, with all the most up to date equipment, lap tops, CD’s etc, helping […]

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This Saturday, England’s Roller Hockey fans will get a chance to see Portuguese professional Club Infante Sagres compete in a round robin tournament against the England Seniors and Juniors, as well as Southern and Northern selections at Buckmore Park, Kent, from 10:00 to 20:00.
Organiser and National Director of Coaching, Keith Allen, says “ The England […]

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Plans explained by new NRHA Marketing Director, Kos Galtos for growing and developing Roller Hockey in England were given the support of Club delegates at yesterdays AGM.
“I love Roller Hockey and believe that it is time we vocally shout about the positives of our sport”, Kos said to the meeting “We have to ensure that […]

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In a demonstration of character and commitment the young England side, that has done so well at this European Championship, beat long time nemesis Germany in what has been reported as the “best England performance in decades”.
Andrew Ashurst scored, at 1.30 minutes, a great goal from his first attempt in the match and then the […]

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Following their brilliant first round performances, England were rewarded with a 6-2 rout of the Austrians!
Starting with Ian Morrison (Goal), Andrew Ashurst (captain), Neil Austin, James Taylor and Shaun Pierce, Coach Carlos Amaral pushed a tired England to perform.
Despite going down a goal in the first 5 minutes, England soon came back by piling tremendous […]

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In what was always going to be England’s toughest match of this the 45th European Championship, the most professional team in the world, Spain proved too much for a young and determined England side - but not before they achieved yet another surprise in this incredibly positive tournament. England, the clear under dog in this […]

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England’s second match of the European Championship was, as predicted, a tough encounter against world 8th placed Switzerland.
England started with the same five as in the successful match against France, playing a strong opening 10 minutes that earned 50% of the possession against a strong Swiss team comprised almost totally of players from the professional […]

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