Total tournament was attendance was over 100,000
More pictures will be uploaded soon...
Photos courtesy of www.wfc2008.cz
Sweden have won 6 times running. Until now...
(all pictures copyright P.Goodman 2008)
Best Players of the Tournament
in order L to R:
Goalie: Henri Toivoniemi (FIN)
Defenders: 14 Henrik Quist (SWE)
7 Daniel Folta (CZE)
Forwards: 52 Santtu Manner (FIN)
28 Fredrik Djurling (SWE)
19 Aleš Zálesný (CZE)
Video of the Winning Goal
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MENS WORLD FLOORBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008
Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic
MENS WORLD FLOORBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006
Globen Stadium, Stockholm
For full results see www.wfc2006.org
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
The teams were on average substituting all the outfield players every 45 seconds, even when there wasn't a natural break in the match.
Many teams were using up to 3 lines (of 5 outfield players) plus netminder.
There were over 12000 spectators for the final and many more watched at home on Eurosport and Swedish national television.
Germany got knocked out of Group A, the elite divison of the World Cup, meaning that they will have to face Britain in the next World Cup in Prague in 2008.
Team GB knocked Australia out of the bottom of Group B and so they won't be attending next time. Sorry sport!
The World Championships in 2006 was an amazing event, held in Stockholm's spherical, world class stadium over the last week in May. Several of the members of Southern Vipers Floorball Club bought tickets and here are some of the things we saw during our trip.
Sweden won WFC 2006 beating Finland 7 goals to 6 but only after a goal in 'sudden death' extra time. Finland were down to 4 outfield players after a contraversial sending off when Sweden scored. Make your own mind up after watching the video!
MENS WORLD FLOORBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010
Helsinki and Vantaa, Finland
The 2010 tournament was the biggest ever with the final watched by over 13,000 fans in the Helsinki Hartwall stadium. It was also shown on Eurosport in about 46 countries and via the web. Between 10% and 20% of the host nation's entire population watched the final match.
Finland beat Sweden in the final by 6 goals to 2 and
Czech Republic beat Switzerland by 9 goals 3, after two intense matches.
