The World Games

TWG Team Presentation: USA

12th June 2017 - News , The World Games , USA Floorball News

USA has a passionate team and they simply love floorball. Their head coach Stefan Hedlund stated in his interview (read more from him  here) that battling against the top teams is a welcomed challenge for team USA. How did you decide on this...

TWG Player Interviews: Malajka and Pelczarski

9th June 2017 - News , The World Games

Wojciech Malajka and Karol Pelczarski are some of the youngest players in the Polish national team. Both were at the U19 in Växjö in the Spring and now both young talents will play at The World Games in front of the home...

TWG Team Presentation: Poland

5th June 2017 - News , The World Games

Team Poland are all set for The World Games with their mixture of youth and experience. Jan Holovka stated in his coach interview (read it here) that Poland´s goal is to gain experience and play nice floorball against high-quality...

Meet TWG Refs - Gross and Larinovs

2nd June 2017 - News , The World Games

Gross and Larinovs after the WFC 2016 final. Photo by IFF Flickr. The Latvian referee pair Martins Gross and Martins Larinovs have refereed together for the past 10 years. They have been whistling around the world and whistled the thriller...

Media accreditation process for The World Games 2017 extended

2nd June 2017 - News , The World Games

The Wrocław Organising Committee announced that due to high interest from the media, it has been decided to extend the process of accreditation until 14.06.2017. Those journalists who have submitted properly filled-out applications during the...

Meet TWG Refs – Boström and Söderman

31st May 2017 - News , The World Games

Boström and Söderman at the WFC 2016 in Riga. The Swedish referee pair Glenn Boström and Håkan Söderman have whistled together since 2013. Both have plenty of refereeing experience and Håkan even from other sports. Now their next...

Meet TWG Refs – Alakare and Vilkki

29th May 2017 - News , The World Games

Photo by Salibandyliiga Flickr. The Finnish referee pair Mikko Alakare and Vesa Vilkki are familiar faces in the international refereeing scene. They have been seen for example in several Men’s WFCs as well as in the Champions Cup. They...

TWG Final Lists published

29th May 2017 - News , The World Games

All of the final team lists for the upcoming The World Games have been published. The World Floorball Championships 2016 in Riga acted as the qualification tournament for TWG 2017. Based on results from WFC 2016, five teams qualified for The...

TWG Interview with Stefan Hedlund

24th May 2017 - News , The World Games

Stefan Hedlund has been with team USA since the WFC Qualifications in 2010. As the only non-European team, he is looking forward to playing against the Goliaths of floorball at The World Games. Photo by Adam Troy from an article regarding team...

TWG Interview with Petteri Nykky

22nd May 2017 - News , The World Games

Petteri Nykky is known as the head coach that led Finland to their first Men´s WFC gold in 2008. He repeated the trick in 2010 and after that he has been seen as the coach of Switzerland and also Australia. Now he has united with team Finland once...