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:
http://www.mundook.net/video/5328-lusa-divulga-escolinhas.html Tweet

How to promote Roller Hockey in XXI Century??

Kids enjoying our Sport in a Square of Avila

 One of the biggest problems of Roller Hockey comparing with others like football, basket, tennis... is it promotion around the World.
Most of the times is hard to think in Marketing ideas to find solutions to this problem.

Happily there are a lot of people that wants to see Roller Hockey in other level and with more players.
The unique form to reach this point, is betting and teaching the young generation about the beauty of Roller Hockey.

For example last weeks was done in Avila, Spain a Roller Hockey Weekend Camp where a lot of kids could learn more about Roller Hockey. the right image shows the young players rolling in a square of this city, a good marketing idea to promote our sport also also to normal citizians.

Stuart Carvalhais club that competed in the Portuguese Final 4 of Juveniles

Another example comes from Portugal and is a Roller Hockey school inside a normal public school. In Portugal there's a sport program to schools, but unhappily Roller Hockey doesn't make part of it yet. Although João Campelo, a ex player, wanted to promote our sport in a portuguese school, "Escola Secundária Stuart Carvalhais", in Massamá, Portugal, and founded 10 years ago this club inside the school.
After 10 years the club is one of the bests in the formation of roller hockey players in Portugal, and has disputed the final four of the Juveniles National Championships, together with some of the best teams of Portugal like SL Benfica, FC Porto and HC Braga.

Young players rolling in Valongo

Another idea that comes from Portugal is the promotion of the sport inside a Shopping Mall, as appears on the photo.
In this case AD Valongo, a club from Valongo city, invited all young to roll or to learn it.
Also FC Bom-Sucesso (another portuguese club) did a similar campaign but inside a traditional Portuguese Market.





 To show how Roller Hockey must come to the streets of cities and towns all over the World watch the next video, that was a marketing idea to promote the  2011 CERS Cup Final 4 , in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia.


Young playing Roller Hockey in the middle of Vilanova i la Geltrú, host city of CERS Cup Final 4 in 2011

All these 4 examples, are simple ideas that were used to promote our sport. Together with all the  Internet skills that we can use for free nowadays (youtube, facebook, twitter, softwares) it is simple to promote our sport, just takes sometime.

Why you don't try one of them in your city or town??
Do you accept the Challenge??

I would be very receptive to promote it after in Rolling Together

Source of all News:
http://www.aviladigital.com/subseccion/subseccion2/el-barco-de-avila-se-puso-los-patines-113808.aspx
http://www.mundook.net/news/5339-avila-promoveu-patinagem.html
http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=270807
http://www.mundook.net/news/5086-um-sucesso-hoquei-em-patins-no-centro-comercial.html Tweet

Final Four of Israel Cup next Weekend

Roller Hockey in Israel like in other countries of Europe is almost crossing the end of one more year.
After the title of Israel League conquered by Maalot, it's time to decide about wich club will win the National Cup.
The model of competition is a final 4 and it will be disputed next 1st and 2nd of July, in Bet lehem Aglilit city..

The semifinals matches are:

Bet lehem aglilit vs Maalot  (16:00 +2UTC)

and

Nofit vs Hockey Academia (17:30 +2UTC)

Video with some of the Israel Players and also the new rink of Bet Lehem Aglilit, after a reconstruction


More info: http://rinkhockeyinisrael.blogspot.com/

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Roller Hockey a World Sport

Who told you that Roller Hockey is/was played just in a few countries?

This is a question that will be answer today, and will prove that is a total mistake.
During the last century and even now Roller Hockey is crossing some better moments and other times worse moments.
As all Roller Hockey fans knows our sport was part of Olympic Games in 1992, in Barcelona. This was the greatest moment of Roller Hockey, and was the struggle of one man that allow this, Juan Antonio Samaranch "just" the president of  the International Olympic Committee at that time.

But the main goal of this article is to prove that Roller Hockey, since the last 60 years, was played all over the World.
Most of people doesn't imagine that next countries presented in the list, had already played roller hockey in history.
So these are the countries where roller hockey was played some years ago, and nowadays there isn't any news that still it is played:

Denmark, Ireland, Canada, Cuba, Sweden, Slovenia, Russia, China, Scotland, Norway, Hungary, Guatemala, South Korea, North Korea, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Porto Rico, Cuba, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and Slovenia.

Are you surprised, wonder, curious????

It is true all these 23 countries played in International Competitions as you can see on the next list of World Cup's, and other Continental Competitions:

1982 World Cup: Canada, Ireland, Guatemala, Venezuela

1958 World Cup: Denmark

1956 World Cup: Norway

1955 World Cup: Yugoslavia, Norway, Ireland, Denmark

1953 World Cup: Denmark, Ireland

1952 World Cup: Denmark

1951 World Cup: Denmark, Ireland

2004 B World Cup:   China  

2002 B World Cup:   South Korea 

2000 B World Cup: Canada,  South Korea

1998 B World Cup: Canada, China, North Korea

1994 B World Cup: Canada

1992 B World Cup: Canada

1990 B World Cup: Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, South Korea, Hong Kong,China

1988 B World Cup: Venezuela, Ecuador, Canada

1986 B World Cup: Costa Rica

1984 B World Cup: Ireland 

1987 Asian Cup: South Korea, Hong Kong
1991 Asian Cup: South Korea, Hong Kong, China
1991 Asian Cup: South Korea,  China

1995 Pan American Cup: Canada

(Source of all Championships Information: http://www.rink-hockey.net/busca/busca-competicoes.php?  and http://cerh.eu/main.php?action=main-rankingseniors)

Next you can see some photos of Irish, Swedish, and Canadian Teams.

Photo Of Irish National Team in a World Cup (source: http://www.rollerhockeyireland.com/)

Veberöd RHC, extinguish Swedish Team (source: http://elwood.tripod.com)

Canada Women's Team (source: http://www.whockey.com)

To note that on the edition of B World Cup before Olympic Games (1990) there were a record of countries, 22!!! Unhappily our sport didn't guarantee it permanence to next edition of Olympics and the interest of these countries for the sport decreased...

All the Roller Hockey international organisms like FIRS and CIRH should increase the promotion of the sport using new technologies, and call again all these countries to play on of the most beautiful sports of our World.
We need to see countries like China, Canada, Russia... to play our sport.
If somebody from these countries wants to do it and need help all roller hockey lovers are available to help, and of course can be other new countries.   

I expect with this article to make everybody see that our sport was, and is a global sport, but of course doesn't have the power of others.

We should effort to put the World Rolling again our Sport!!!!!! Tweet

Tomorrow 2nd Day of NRBB, Dutch Roller Hockey League in Brunssum

Last 28th May the Dutch Championship, NRBB started in Dordrecht.
With the six teams already annouced the final results were:

Valkenswaardse RC	15 x 3	edrc AGOR
RC Brunssum	4 x 7	Valkenswaardse RC
Zaanse Roller Club	1 x 5	ehrc Marathon
RC de Lichtstad	12 x 3	RC Brunssum
ehrc Marathon	9 x 8	edrc AGOR
RC de Lichtstad	7 x 1	Zaanse Roller Club

The Classification after the first journey is:

Teams	Points	M	W	D	L	GD	GL	DG
Valkenswaardse RC	4	2	2	0	0	42	7	35
RC de Lichtstad	4	2	2	0	0	19	4	15
EHRC Marathon	4	2	2	0	0	14	9	5
Z.R.C.	0	2	0	0	2	2	12	-10
e.d.r.c. AGOR	0	2	0	0	2	11	23	-12
RV Brunssum	0	2	0	0	2	7	39	-32

Next day of NRBB will happen tomorrow 18th June, and the city to host will be Brunssum. The matches will be the following:

RC de Lichtstad	x	Valkenswaardse RC
RC Brunssum	x	ehrc Marathon
Zaanse Roller Club	x	edrc AGOR
RC de Lichtstad	x	ehrc Marathon
Zaanse Roller Club	x	Valkenswaardse RC
RC Brunssum	x	edrc AGOR

and there's the hot match between the two big teams in Netherlands RC de Lichtstad (a Vice title on the first edition of CERS CUP and Valkenswaardse RC. Important to refer that Valkenswaardse RC plays in NRBB after assure it presence in next edition of German Championship, Bundesliga, due to the fact that was 2.Bundesliga Champion (see the pictures here)

Dutch talking with the top coach, Carlos Dantas, in Andorra Final 8

All this news and also the travel of some Dutch Roller Hockey fans to Andorra, to see the Final 8 of European League, are  good news, proving that all the efforts are done to have a better Roller Hockey in Netherlands.


All the results at:
http://rolhockey.com/comp2011/11NLsenioren.htm
Photos:
Photos of the 1st NRBB Day Tweet