Today was my sporting day experience, for it was my first Floorball match (as a spectator, of course).
Innebandy, otherwise known as Floorball, is very popular in Sweden, as well as Finland, Norway, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. A lot of young children start playing as soon as they know how to work and run and can often be seen playing in the street with the easily recognisable stick.
Bandy (played on ice by teams of 11) shares common ancestry with ice hockey. Innebandy first developed as the pre-seasonal training practice to bandy tournaments; and was also a popular playground game.
The Internation Floorball Federation was founded in 1986. http://www.floorball.org/default.asp
Today was Umeå (IKSU's team) vs Täby, a city just North from Stockholm.
For my French friends, if you happen to be reading this, and want to know more about Floorball, here is a website you can check out: http://innebandy.ifrance.com/innebandy/mainpage.htm (et bien sûr l'incontournable article Wiki : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihockey - eh oui, car l'innebandy/floorball s'appelle aussi unihockey en allemand et salibandy en finnois)
English readers, here is the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball
There are different sorts of floorball games. The match I saw was the classic floorball played by 2 teams of 5 players (6 players including the goalkeeper).
Basic rules:
- 3 x 20 min with 10 min intermission where teams change ends,
- There are 2 referees.
Today's match was part of the Eurofloorball cup 2009.
Innebandy is very much like icehockey, except that a lot of contacts are disallowed.
Mål means goal, but I'm sure you've already guessed that!
And here is Umeå's team website: http://www.iksuinnebandy.se/
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