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Sweden
Women's 2009 WFC Champions
The
seven best teams in the A-division; Sweden, Switzerland,
Finland, Czech Republic, Russia, Latvia and Norway and
Australia as the winner of the B-division are directly
qualified to the WFC 2011 played in Switzerland.
The
total attendance in the World Floorball Championships was 19
051 spectators and the WFC Final was watched by a record
number of 4521 spectators in the ABB Arena.
WFC
Highlight on X-Floor TV
Hermine Dahlerus
, Emelie Lindström and Karolina Widar all
broke previous Women's WFC records.
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Iran
and Indonesia new IFF Members
For
the first time the IFF has reached over 50 members when the
Iran Floorball Association was accepted as the IFF Member
number 50 and the Indonesian Floorball Association as the IFF
Member number 51. The continuous growth in the number of new
member associations is important in order to reach the IFF
vision of having 100 members by 2020.
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Floorball
needs to stress its unique character
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The fight for entering Multisport is tough and the sports
need to emphasize their strengths and unique qualities in
order to be evaluated as attractive for the Multisport events
orgaisers. Floorball's appeal to Youth and the core countries
can be considered as interesting markets for the World Games
, Mr. Jan Fransoo , the ARISF President emphasized
in the IFF Presidents' Meeting.
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Women's
U19 aiming for TV
The
4th WU19 WFC will be played in Olomouc, Czech Republic 4th -
8th of May. The main arena is the University Arena with a
spectator capacity of 1 500 spectators. The organisers are
aiming to have televised matches from the Championships and
the Official web page will open in January.
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Top
players in WUC 2010
7
mens and 6 womens teams has now joined the World University
Championships which makes a total of 13 teams. The goal is to
have 16 (8+8) teams registered before the deadline on the 12th
of January 2010. All the top teams will play in the WUC with
their best possible roster.
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Interesting
quarter finals in WFC 2010
The
World Championships 2010 are for the first time played with 16
teams including quarter finals and the IFF Central Board has
made the decision that the top 5 ranked teams in the WFC 2010
will be directly qualified for the Men’s World Championships
2012.
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Floorball
Village in ispo 2010
The
Floorball Village will be organised for the 4th time in the
winter ispo in Munich, 7th - 10th of February 2010 with
exhibition matches, penalty shots and Zorro shows as well as
speed shooting for the visitors.
The world's leading
Floorball equipmen brands: Blast, Canadien, Exel, Precision,
Realstick, Rosco & Cobra, Salming, Swerink, Uher, Unihoc,
Zii Freebandy, Zone and X3M will present their latest
innovations in the Floorball Village 2010.
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New
Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) rules 2010
TUE
applications need to be sent to IFF 30 days in advance
of the competition (previously 21 days), otherwise there
will be a late TUE administration fee of 100/CHF.
Other changes in the 2010 WADA Prohibited List:
Use of inhaled salbutamol and salmeterol for treating
asthma becomes easier (DOU). Pseudoephedrine is considered a
prohibited substance (Aerinaze, Cirrus and Duact).
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Last
day for Transfers
The
last day to complete an international transfer is Thursday
31st of December. The signed transfer form and receipt of the
payment must be in the IFF office latest at midnight CET.
The interational transfer period is between 1st of May
and 31st of December every year.
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Registration
for WFC 2011
The
8th Women´s World Floorball Championships (WFC) will be played
in Switzerland in the period 3rd - 11th of December 2011.
The registration shall be the IFF by hand latest on
the 31st of December 2009.
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New
IFF Materials
For
the first time the development and the history of Floorball
has been put between the same covers in the This is
Floorball material .
The material presents the
Floorball player profiles from the beginning, the past and the
present, giving a face to Floorball.
This material can
be ordered from the IFF Office, office@floorball.org,
and the price is 5€.
Also the printed version of the
Learn, Start, Play material, which can be downloaded
from the IFF web page can be ordered from the IFF Office.
The IFF Office wishes all Floorball Friends a
Wonderful new Floorball Year 2010!
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