The former president of Czech floorball and current IFF Vice President, Filip Šuman, will run for the position of President of the International Floorball Federation in December. His candidacy for the role of presidency was confirmed on Tuesday by the Executive Committee of Czech Floorball, who nominated him.
Šuman led the Czech floorball Federation for twenty-one years. He was elected president in 2000 and stayed in the role until 2021. During the following years, he was also elected to the Czech Olympic Committee. Since 2012, he has been one of the vice-presidents and his responsibility includes non-Olympic sports, and above all the very successful project of the Children’s and Youth Olympics. At the same time, Šuman expanded his field of activity also in the IFF. In 2010, he became IFF vice president, which he has been in the role of since then.
“I feel the time is right. I already considered candidacy four years ago, but then covid came and it was necessary to pay a lot of attention to Czech floorball, but the development of international floorball was always very important to me. That is why in recent years I have devoted myself intensively to the preparation and launch of the new development program Floorball: Fit For Future, and I am very happy that more than 20 federations from all over the world have already joined it. I am very motivated to take floorball to the next level. I led a floorball club for many years, then the Czech Federation, I have experience both in the Executive Committee of the IFF and in the National Olympic Committee. I know that leading the entire sport means having a huge responsibility, and I want to use all my experience to make floorball even stronger and more successful on the international field,” says Šuman on his bid for IFF Presidency. He added, “I will see if I can convince the floorball federations to give me their trust in December.”
The new IFF President will be decided at the IFF’s General Assembly, which will take place on December 14 during the Men’s World Championships in Malmö, Sweden.
