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Victories Without Victims  —  How the Special Olympics Movement is Embracing Refugees in Europe

17th August 2017 - News , ParaFloorball

On the surface, it looked like a standard, local Special Olympics Unified Floorball match. Athletes of all ages, and all abilities, joined their teammates on the field to review the rules, and the terms of the match. The whistle blew- the match...

Falun and Pixbo Czech Open Champions 2017

16th August 2017 - News , International Club Tournaments

IBF Falun and Pixbo Wallenstam IBK are Czech Open Champions 2017 The biggest adult floorball tournament in the world, Czech Open, was played last week on 10.-13.8. Last year, the new Finnish fusion club EräViikingit was crowned as the Male Elite...

Czech Floorball Open 2017 begins on Thursday

7th August 2017 - News , International Club Tournaments

One of the biggest international floorball tournaments for adults, the Czech Floorball Open will be played this week in Prague, Czech Republic. Thousands of floorball players around the world will arrive to Prague, Czech Republic during this...

Special Olympics: Shanghai to Helsinki - Floorball 101

4th August 2017 - News , Special Olympics

Special Olympics players came all the way from Shanghai to Helsinki, Finland to learn about the sport of floorball. A unified group of children with special needs as well as some young Chinese floorball players embarked on this journey to...

TWG 2017: IWGA - "The World Games 2017 were a success"

3rd August 2017 - News , The World Games

According to the article written by the IWGA, The World Games 2017 was a success and there was more TV coverage than in any previous Games. The IFF will publish floorball related The World Games numbers when we have been able to collect all the...

Riihimäki and Kytöhonka to coach Latvian Men’s National Team

2nd August 2017 - News , Latvia Floorball News

Latvian Floorball Union has announced Arto Riihimäki as the new Head coach and Perttu Kytöhonka as the Assistant coach of the Latvian Men’s National Team. Experienced Finnish floorball specialists will lead the squad in preparation for the...

Minutes from the IFF CB meeting 3/2017

1st August 2017 - News , IFF News

The minutes from the IFF CB meeting 3/2017 held in Wroclaw, Poland 28.07.2017 are now published under Meetings

IFF CB Meeting News 2/2017

31st July 2017 - News , IFF News , Central Board , Nigeria Floorball News

The IFF Central Bord held its second meeting of the year on 28th of July during The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. Nigeria new IFF Member The Nigerian Floorball Federation (NFF) was approved as the IFF member association number 67. At the...

TWG 2017: Mika Kohonen IWGA Athlete of Day

31st July 2017 - News , The World Games

Every day the International World Games Association awards prizes for IWGA Athlete of the Day - powered by Tissot! On the last day of The World Games, the jury of experts selected Floorball player Mika Kohonen (FIN) and the DanceSport couple...

TWG 2017: Day 3 Recap

30th July 2017 - News , The World Games

The Day 3 of The World Games was the semi-final day. Switzerland defeated the reigning World Champions Finland 5-2 and Sweden won against Czech Republic also 5-2. In tomorrow’s Final Switzerland and Sweden will meet for the second time in this...