Best European League Final 4 ever Live on TV this Weekend

Gold Medal Final TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday 2nd June, 17.00h (local time, GMT 0)

FC PORTO IMPÉRIO BONANÇA – SL BENFICA (live RTP*, Porto Canal, CERH TV)

+++ALL MATCHES WILL BE BROADCASTED LIVE WEB STREAMING
(AND ESCLUSIVE RIGHTS) ON WWW.CERH.EU+++"

Hey roller hockey fellows! If you love this sport this weekend you have a thousand reasons to stay at home and enjoy roller hockey pleasure for some time. With the 4 greatest teams in Europe this season already found, the European League will have a new champion this year, succeeding to Liceo da Coruna.

I'm almost sure that you know each of this teams but it is always good to remember again:

-FC Porto, the host team, with some of the great Portuguese players nowdays. The King Reinaldo Ventura, with one of the strongest shoots all over the World, Ricardo Barreiro with all it great skills and champion last 2 years with Coruna and "Caio" with all it speed and technician want to bring to Porto this trophy after 20 years since the last time.
-SL Benfica, the eternal rival from Lisbon, with the young but already World star player Diogo Rafael, the experience from the captain Valter Neves and the Argentinian strength from Steban Abalos wish to turn real the dream of winning the biggest hockey competition in Europe.
-FC Barcelona, with the artistic inspiration of Pablo Albarez, with the goal instint of Marc Torra, and with the giant goalkeeper Sergi Fernandez, want to confirm why Barcelona is the most succeesful team on the big hockey club competition (19 titles!!).
-Valdagno, with the unique Pedro Gil, the goal precision of Carlos Nicolia, and the powerfull shot of Sérgio Silva want to take to Italy for the second time ever the EuroLeague Cup, and show to the World that Italy is again rolling among the best.

Who will take the trophy this year??

And of course the most important thing for you, that probably can't watch live in Porto's rink, all matches will be broadcast by several TV, WebTV channels.

Here you have the transcript text from CERH Facebook Page with all info and links to TV:

"EUROLEAGUE FINAL FOUR SCHEDULE

1st Semifinal
Saturday 1st June, 15.00h (local time, GMT 0)
FC BARCELONA 4–5 SL BENFICA (live RTP2, TV3 Catalunya-only in Spain available)

2nd Semifinal
Saturday 1st June, 18.00h (local time, GMT 0)
FC PORTO IMPÉRIO BONANÇA 8–6 RECALAC VALDAGNO (live RTP2, Porto Canal . Pre-recorded broadcast Rai Sport 2-22.00h )
If some TV links doesn't work check the biggest roller hockey website that also as a special attendance for this great competition!! http://www.hoqueipatins.com/ 

Roller Hockey the best Hockey Sport!!! 

Don't waste this opportunity to see some of the best players on the greatest club competition!!!

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Amazing Atmosphere in Portuguese Roller Hockey

One more season is getting close to finish in most European Championships. After FC Barcelona, Dornbirn RHC, Grimsby, Nofit and HC Dinan Quévert victories in Spanish, Austrian, English, Israeli and French championships, also 1ª Divisão in Portugal it's almost finding it champion. After another amazing and emotional "O Clássico" between the two biggest Portuguese roller hockey clubs, Porto and Benfica, the final result was 5-5. This result is favorable to the home team, Benfica, that can stop Porto's supremacy in Portuguese hockey in last decade. With one more point than Porto, Benfica will try to win Tigres de Almeirim on last journey, and assure it 21st Portuguese title. But the reason of this article has something about Emotion and Atmosphere in roller hockey, as happen in sports like football and basketball. Which amateur sport can have something like the next video??? This was the last Benfica's goal appointed by one of greatest Portuguese players, Sérgio Silva.

  

The celebration after was unique, and is an image about how special is this sport for a lot of people!! Although our sort can't have the same visibility, managers with the same perspicacity, and of course the same money  than the majority of other sports, has something special, some kind of mystique and passion. It is just because of this that roller hockey can't stop!!!

 Video with all the goals of the match


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Roller Hockey as an University Sport

Flyer of Cup (source:Desporto UP facebook)

All of us, which had the pleasure to study in Universities know about the amount of sports that could be practice, representing our Faculties/Universities. Although our roller hockey doesn't have almost expressive concerning University sport. One of the uniques countries where this is possible is Portugal, but even here it's impossible to compare their power with other sports like football, handball, rugby, athletics...
One of the unique championship each year, is "Torneio dos Campeões". Universidade do Porto organizer of the competition this year, that took place today, in Valongo, near Porto, with 4 men teams and 4 women teams from 5 different universities:
-Universidade do Porto (men and women)
-Universidade do Minho (men)
-Instituto Politécnico do Porto (men and women)
-Associação Académica de Coimbra (men and women)
-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (women)

It's important to note that it's the first time that Women play in this tournament what means, something new for our sport in Portuguese universities. 

Rolling Together believes that Universities could have an essential role to assure that young players formed in clubs, when apply for universities, could have here an opportunity to keep practicing roller hockey. We can't forget about United States University sports example, where there are very important competitions concerning American Football and Basketball. Here the students reach in a lot of cases professional level. 

Furthermore, for example in Chile some of the existent teams are part of National Universities, eg: Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católicaand the same happens in Mexico, eg: BUAP (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and UABC (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California). The same could happen in other countries, having University teams competing in national competitions, and not just in university championships (eg. Associação Académica de Coimbra , team from Coimbra's University Association, playing in 2nd Portuguese Division).

One more idea to National Federations think about :) 

More info on:
Facebook Desporto U.Porto
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Benfica's Roller Hockey section wants to create B team

Benfica’s head of the roller hockey section, José Trindade, announced the intention to create a B team in order to give more opportunities to the Academy’s youth.

"Although having vast potential, the Academy’s youth need to attain greater maturity so they can integrate more easily Benfica’s First Team," told José Trindade, speaking to Benfica TV.

At this moment Catalan and Italian teams have B teams, disputing regional championships, but for example this situation doesn't happen in Portugal. As the head of Benfica's hockey section, says this is a great opportunity to give experience to young players formed in school bases of the club. It would be nice if this initiative could go ahead.

Visit Benfica's website now in English!!!
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Who has reason in all Continental Cup Controversy (with video press conference)

As almost Roller Hockey World know, last 5th November was a sad day for European Roller Hockey.
Like Rolling Together reported Liceo didn't take part in this Cup, because didn't agree with the host place and the date. CERH using the rules of this competition, said that Liceo doesn't have reason, so they must be punished with a money payment, and probevly will be forbidden to take part in next European Competitions between 1 and 3 years.
Although Liceo doesn't agree with CERH's decision about Continental Cup, and yesterday advance with a press conference (watch the video)



On it website they put available all documentation that will use to defend themselves:

Allegations from RFEP (Spanish Federation to CERS
Recurse of HC Coinasa Liceo
Attachment of HC Coinasa Liceo Recurse
CEA Report 

Who has reason in all this novel?? Roller Hockey doesn't need this kind of Polemics. 
They just kill our fragile sport. Be respectful with it please!

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A New ERA in Roller Hockey and TV

After many years without Roller Hockey live on TV, seems that situation is changing finally in Portugal and Spain.
There are two main reasons to reach this amazing goal for our sport:

1. A big effort by federations together with public and private TV's;
2. Web TV's started to grow and to prove that Roller Hockey still has market.

In Portugal the "Primeira Divisão" (Firs Division) was always broad-casted until some years ago, when the Portuguese Roller Sports Federation stopped the agreement with RTP, public TV.
However the agreement was renovated again and all the season of  2011/2012 will have at least a match broad-casted at 15:00 (+0 GMT Portuguese Time) all Saturdays.

In Spain the agreement was concluded between Spanish Federation and two channels TV3 and RTVE, being transmitted all Monday at 21:00 hours (+1 GMT, Spanish Time) in these channels and also in RFEP TV.





Italy keeps the agreement with RAI (not available by internet out of Italy) broadcasting weekly the games of the Italian league.




Beside the National Federation Agreements there are WEBTV's that also will transmit some matches of each competition. Usually this channels are part of the clubs, but others regional channels like:

Portugal:

• PA TV (matches of Paço de Arcos, team of 1ª Divisão)
• Física TV (matches of Física, team of 1ª Divisão)
• Plurisports 
• Benfica TV (matches of Benfica, team of 1ª Divisão)
• Radio Pico TV (matches of Candelária, team of 1ª Divisão)
• Porto Canal (matches of Porto, team of 1ª Divisão)
• TIVC (matches of Juventude de Viana, team of 1ª Divisão)
• HC Turquel TV (matches of HC Turquel, team of 2ª Divisão) 
• HóqueiPatins TV 
• Brunim TV 
• AP Lisboa TV 

 Italy:

• LodiChannel (matches of Amatori Lodi, team of Lega Nazionale)
• http://www.studio7hd.com/live_web_area_streaming.php

Argentina:

• Bochinstick TV (matches of Argentinian and San Juan Championship) 

Chile

• ViveDeportes (not available by internet out of Chile)

These are very important examples, and all Roller Hockey Fans would like to watch soon the same in other countries. It's very important to countries like France, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Colombia... where the Roller Hockey wants to reach other lever to guarantee transmissions by television or internet...

On the next Portuguese Link you can have weekly almost all matches in all Europe that have Broadcast by TV and WebTV:
http://hoqueipatins.com/2011-12/11-12_jogos_na_tv.htm


Do you want to do the Same and create a WEBTV??
Watch it


Just an important reminder, that for the first time ever all matches in FIRS World Cup Senior and Junior were broadcasted by WebTV's...

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Wonderful videos promoting Roller Hockey Schools in Brazil and Portugal

Just enjoy the fantastic work done by the Brazilian and Portuguese Roller Hockey friends from  "Portuguesa dos Desportos" club and "União Micaelense" club.
The main goal with this two videos are the promotion of the Roller Hockey school in São Paulo (Brazil,Capital) and Ponta Delgada (São Miguel Island, Azores).
I hope that other friends can use this marketing example to promote our Sport, because day by day the Internet World can be used more and more to spread our Sport around the World.








Source of the news:
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