The primary EuroHockey Freestyle launched in spectacular style final week with over 5,500 followers marvelling on the expertise of the three finalists on the Wagener Stadium, Amsterdam.
Its success means the competitors is ready to turn into a function at main EuroHockey occasions, encouraging gamers to indicate off their innovation and creativity and have interaction potential hockey followers in a brand new manner.
EuroHockey President Marcos Hofmann is happy to see this new avenue to advertise the game take form, saying: “There isn’t a participant on this planet that hasn’t juggled with the stick and the ball! All of us do it and have our particular methods. The EuroHockey Freestyle, in time, will accept as soon as and for all who’s the perfect!”
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The duty? Produce your greatest get together methods in 30 seconds; your best stick-handling; the flowery footwork! The stage is there for all to indicate off. Deliver that to the large stage and encourage extra folks to take up the problem.
It’s an initiative which inserts in completely with the FIH’s Worldwide Hockey Day #Hockey100Pledge celebrations.
This marketing campaign encourages hockey organisations world wide to create new tasks to get no less than 100 new younger gamers into the game and rising their fanbase on social media till the beginning of the upcoming Olympics.
In Amsterdam – organised EuroHockey co-ordinator Julie Aubert – three qualifying periods on the EHL FINAL8 noticed Mathilda (10 years outdated; Membership Raffelberg, Germany), Neil (13 years outdated; Pinoké, Netherlands) and Evy-Lynn (12 years outdated; HC Rotterdam, Netherlands) win via for the possibility to indicate off their sensational dribbling, aerial expertise and ball-juggling throughout half-time of the EHL Males’s GRAND FINAL.
The sold-out crowd within the stadium fashioned a part of the judging panel in tandem with knowledgeable friends from Junior FC Teresa Lima (Junior World Cup participant of the match) and Maria Gestí (Spanish worldwide).
Their expertise had been additionally proven to over 200,000 viewers on Dutch broadcaster NOS earlier than the beginning of the second half of the lads’s GRAND FINAL.
In the end, the winner was the proficient and smiling Evy-Lynn who received – due to EuroHockey companion Osaka – a personalized stick from their A to Z vary on the model’s web site