Since 2001 we have been participating in Group A (6 Championships in total), although we were relegated in 2001 and 2003 and promoted the following year. We learnt lessons from the years when we were relegated and consequently we prepared the team to ensure we would stay up in Group A, 2005 being our best [...]
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World Seniors Final Report
October 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off
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World Seniors Angola too strong for a weakened England
October 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off
England 1 Angola 7 (Half-Time 1-3)
England came into this game with 3 players unwell for the last 24 hours (James, Owen and William), that being said after conceding an early goal England reacted very well and scored a goal to equalise. As tiredness arose in the team due to the sharpness of the Angola players [...]
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World Seniors Competitive Game England lost to spells of Blues sharpness
September 28th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 1 France 5 (Half-Time 0-2)
England started the game versus one of the top teams in the world (3rd last Europeans and 5th last Worlds) showing improvement on the previous 2 games. We were consistent in our defence system and had good counter attacks. England still had good ball possession often using 2 touch play, [...]
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World Seniors Strong performance against a quality team
September 27th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 2 Brazil 7 (Half-Time 0-6)
England started this game against Brazil (4th in the last world championships) with good attitude and concentration and held them for 10 minutes before conceding the first goal. In this period we defended well with man to man restricted defence having many second tackles, which allowed us to win the [...]
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World Seniors England showed two sides
September 26th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 1 Colombia 5 (Half-Time 1-2)
England started the game very well with our system in place. We defended man to man restricted, pressuring the man with the ball which gave us confidence to retain possession of the ball for long periods. However our goal came from a fantastic counter attack move which came from a [...]
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World Under 20’s Final Report
September 21st, 2011 · Comments Off
England participated in this World Championship with one of the youngest teams, 7 players in their first year of this category. The objective was to become more competitive to ensure that we will able play for top 5 in the Europeans next year and a possible top 6 finish in the worlds in 2 years’ [...]
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World Under 20′ Tiredness affected performance
September 20th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 7 South Africa 2 (Half-Time 4-0)
England had a comfortable win against a young South African Team, we played the most of the game pressuring to the half way line, but our concentration levels at times were not the best.
This game gave us the opportunity to rotate all the players and although most of our [...]
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World Under 20’s Very competitive game
September 17th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 2 Angola 5 (Half-time 1-1)
England and Angola started the game respected each other with both teams playing restricted man to man pressuring the man with the ball.
In the first 10 minutes we were not sharp enough missing most of the times the player in the front of the goal then we called a time [...]
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Worlds Under 20’s One of the favourites Argentina showed their quality
September 14th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 0 Argentina 9 (Half-time 0-7)
England found very difficult to cope with the speed and ball control of the Argentinians which resulted with us conceding 6 goals in the first 10 minutes. Time out was called to address the positioning of our players on the rink especially in defence. The team absorbed the information very [...]
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Euro Under 17’s Tables turned
September 13th, 2011 · Comments Off
England 1 Switzerland 5 (Half-time 0-4)
England after a good win in the group stage versus Switzerland started this game with lack of concentration and showed a lot of tiredness which cost us the 4 goals in the first half. The team didn’t work for each other as well as they had done in the first [...]
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