Finland Floorball News

Finland in the WFC semi-final

9th December 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Women's WFC 2009

Finland defeated Poland with 6-3 and will play against Sweden in the semi-final on Friday starting at 18:15. Slovakia defeated Singapore with 9-3 in a match, which did not effect the standings in group C. Both Finland and Poland seemed to...

Finnish captain Paula Jouhten in her 5th World Championships

30th November 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Women's WFC 2009 , Athletes Commission

Paula Jouhten, the captain in the Finnish team and a member of the IFF Athletes Commission, has been involved in international Floorball for quite a long time as she played her first WFC in 2001. Jouhten feels that Floorball has developed a lot...

Tiitu and Svensson ready to challenge each other in WFC 2010

12th November 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Sweden Floorball News , Men's WFC 2010

Magnus Svensson and Tero Tiitu are used to decide important games. In the WFC Final 2006 Svensson scored the golden gold for Sweden and in the 2008 final the tables were turned when Tiitu scored the winning goal and settled the first WFC victory...

2010 World Championships logo & theme published

11th November 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Men's WFC 2010

The logo and theme of the World Championships 2010 was presented in a press conference held in Helsinki. The WFC 2010 logo is a Floorball ball with holes that create a human figure. The human figure describes the theme for the World...

SSV wins EFC gold with Santtu Manner´s sudden death goal

18th October 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , EFC 2009

The player of the final, was without doubt Santtu Manner, who scored all of the SSV goals, the last one being the golden 6-5 goal after 07.17 of the over time. After four EFC silvers and three EFC bronze medals, SSV´s could finally celebrate...

Top 10 players in the world 2009

24th September 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Sweden Floorball News , Switzerland Floorball News , Czech Floorball News , Norway Floorball News

Mika Kohonen and Karolina Widar were elected as the world´s best players for 2009. Below you will find the whole list of players in the top 10. Men´s Top 10 2009: Mika Kohonen, Finland Fredrik Djurling, Sweden ...

All Finnish Floorball League matches played on same flooring

22nd September 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

All the matches in the Finnish Men´s Floorball League will be played on the same flooring during the upcoming season. This is a result of the Finnish Floorball League´s investment in the removable Taraflex floorings, which are familiar from...

Mika Kohonen elected best player in the world

15th September 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

Finnish player, Mika Kohonen, (born in 1977) has been elected the Best male Floorball Player in the world by Innebandymagazinet together with national team coaches and media representatives. Mika Kohonen also received this award the first time it...

Switzerland and Finland winners of the International tournaments

13th September 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Switzerland Floorball News , International Matches

Switzerland won the decisive and tight match against Finland in the Men´s 4-nations tournament in Latvia with 6-5. Finland and Switzerland met also in the Women´s Polish Open and Finland was the stronger team with 4-1. In the Men´s...

Ismo Haaponiemi General Secretary of WFC 2010

26th August 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Men's WFC 2010

Mr. Ismo Haaponiemi has been elected the General Secretary of the 8th Men´s World Floorball Championships played in Finland in December 2010. Haaponiemi s currently the General Secretary of the Finnish Floorball Federation and has been working...