EuroHockey Indoor Junior Nations 2009 Men 16-18 Jan & Women 23-25 Jan

NicfromSweden 13
mani 8
bigmick 6
majwalrus 6
JiMMM 5
dodgeyumpires 4
Gocu 4
serbulator 4
silky 4
johncoxon 4

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[NicfromSweden]

here are the pools for the upcoming championships what does people think? will we see any suprises? what will be the final standing?

EuroHockey Indoor Junior Nations (Men)
Vienna (AUT)
16-18 January 2009

Pool A: AUT/DEN/SUI/BLR
Pool B: ESP/RUS/POL/SWE



EuroHockey Indoor Junior Nations Trophy (Men)
Budapest (HUN)
16-18 January 2009

Pool A: CZE/HUN/POR/SCO
Pool B: CRO/SVK/TUR/LTU



EuroHockey Indoor Junior Nations Championship (Women)
Siauliai (LTU)
23-25 January 2009

Pool A: POL/SVK/RUS/ESP
Pool B: BLR/LTU/AUT/CZE



EuroHockey Indoor Junior Nations Trophy (Women)
Guimaraes (POR)
23-25 January 2009

One Pool: SUI/POR/CRO/SWE/SCO/TUR


this is the standing in Europe from 2007

Final Ranking Men
1. Austria European Champion
2. Spain
3. Russia
4. Denmark
5. Switzerland
6. Poland
7. Sweden (15pts) (promoted to Championship in 2009)
8. Belarus (12pts) (promoted to Championship in 2009)
9. Czech Republic (relegated to Trophy in 2009)
10. Croatia (relegated to Trophy in 2009)
11. Slovakia (7pts)
12. Hungary (5pts)
13. Italy (4pts)
14. Turkey (0pts)

Final Ranking Women
1. Poland European Champion
2. Belarus
3. Lithuania
4. Slovakia
5. Russia
6. Austria
7. Czech Republic
8. Spain (promoted to Championship in 2009)
9. Switzerland (relegated to Trophy in 2009)
10. Portugal
11. Croatia
12. Sweden
13. Turkey

[NicfromSweden]

personaly since this is my last u21 championship and my first in the highest division my hopes is a medail even if its high hopes you have to aim at something and i think the 3/4 playoff is possible because i belive in the generation we got and i can just keep my fingers crossed the other nations have a bad generation which you could see in countrys like Poland and Czech republic had in 2007

anyway im extreamly excited for this tournament

[The.Rampage.Rado]

Definitely wish you luck there and you have to take someone to shoot all the matches so we can look at them latter

[NicfromSweden]

i hope and i think 3 of the senior nationalteam players (who played u21 2007) will go with us and be out drunk supporters and hopefully they will take some photos

[Martindk]

Looking forward to this tournament (men), i´ll proberly do some video and take some pictures , but i´ll do a close up on Nics performance ** not doing it due to Sterling airways bankrup !

[The.Rampage.Rado]

You know where we can put them

[NicfromSweden]

ahh martin so your coming with the danish team thats just great! i think the atmosphere can be great especially if we can give eachother some scandinavian support just like in sheffield, not to take any credit but i think our support might helped you in the final

[Martindk]

I´ll support Sweden but just not against my vaterland !!

[NicfromSweden]

haha martin i dont think it will be a big problem because the chances that we will play against eachother are not to big

[Zafer]

What´s that?

Turkey on position 13 and 14... 

I hope this change after this tournament.

I´m 22. I can´t play U21 this year... 

[NicfromSweden]

yeah i think turkey will move up a few notches this time you always seem to have a very serious team with these german guys etc but you never really make it

[Zafer]

never in my life. the last weekend I saw are great players. there are 14 or 15 years old and playing amazing  and for crefelder htc and gladbacher htc.

it will be very interesting.

but sweden have a very strong team.
i remember eliasson. a very good defender. but he don´t play u21, too

good luck nic in the a division!

[NicfromSweden]

zafer yeah Eliasson is pretty good he played for UHC Hamburg for many years but personaly i think Hemvik (who got the player of the tournament award last u21) and Björkman (who will play in the u21 team this time as well) are better player but will less rutine

we have a couple of guys who played in england playing for the u21 team this time but we got a very very hard group russia, spain and poland are not easy oponents

[Zafer]

Don´worry Nic.

All the players cook with water, too.

I think you reach the half finals.

The teams are good, but it is not the top level of indoor hockey.
You play very disciplined and expectant.
This will be the key of your achievement.

Why do you play outdoor "only" in Challenge I and why do you get a bad place in Kazan? What was the reason? Are you more interested in Indoor? I think you´re very strong in indoor. And more over I think you reach in indoor senior the A-Division, too! I heard from friends, that you get the 2nd place in copenhagen before the challenge in sheffield.

[NicfromSweden]

Zafer

your right we are not very good outdoor the biggest problem for us is that we dont even have one single waterbase in scandinavia and many teams choose to not play outdoor at all because we dont even have enough sandbased pitches where they can train regulary

yes your right we beated both holland and denmark just 2 weeks before both these teams got promoted to the A division so i feel it  was to bad we didnt play in the B division this year because we could had the chance to get promoted to A but now we aim to get promoted 2010 but its hard since poland is in the B division as well its going to be very hard