1st Korean University Championship followed by 1st School Championship

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1st Korean University Championship followed by 1st School Championship

The Korea Floorball Federation (KFF) has had an active Autumn with the first University Floorball Championships and the promotional event for school kids organised in cooperation with the Seoul Ministry of Education.

The most important Floorball event in Korea is still coming up as the 1st National Elementary & Middle & High school Floorball Championships are played on November 20th - 21st. This event will be supported by the Ministry of Education in order to promote Floorball as a school sport.

Shin Ansan College double University Champions

The first University Championships were played on the 24th of October with three Men´s and two Women´s teams participating.  

The Shin Ansan College team, which is the first college team in Korea, not surprisingly won the both Championships, but the Men´s match between the Daejin and Sungkyunkwan University was very exciting. The Daejin and Sungkyunkwan teams met in a thrilling match for the 2nd place in which the score was 1-1 in the last period. The Daejin team had 4 really good shots in the last 1 one and a half minute, but the Sungkyunkwan Goalie saved them all and the drama of the match was felt by the spectators.

The decisive goal was scored in the last second by the Daejin team that took the silver medals.

Final Results Men 1st : Shin Ansan College 2nd : Daejin University 3rd : Sungkyunkwan University

Final Results Women 1st : Shin Ansan College 2nd : Daejin University

Floorball presented in the Seoul Sport event

The Seoul Ministry of education organised a sports experiencing event for students in Seoul city hall square where about 20 different sport organisations participated.

Floorball was the one of main sports together with basketball and horse riding. Many of the organisations emphasized one main thing, either sport exhibition, providing sport experience, learning the sport, playing real games, but the KFF had decided to include all the elements for Floorball.

There was a small booth with equipment exhibit and information about the sport, one small size game court for 3 versus 3, another smaller size court for experiencing the game with friends and one really small  court for teaching the sport.

10 elementary schools and three middle schools registered in advance for the 3 versus 3 real games. The event was perfect with beautiful October weather and the best promotion to Seoul citizens and kids living in the heart of Seoul. 1st National School Championships in November The most important event of the year is also coming up very soon as the 1st National Elementary & Middle & High school Floorball Championships are played the 20th - 21st of November 2010.

The Korean sport education system has for a long time been focusing mostly on the sports that are included in the Olympic program but now the focus has changes a bit due to the economic growth and the Ministry of education try to make all students exercise and do sports more. The schools therefore try to include many different sport to give diversity to students.

Not only Floorball is promoting its sport as a sport for schools as approximately 20 sports organisations try to promote their sports in schools. 

- There are other sports like T-ball, Netball, Kinball, Ropeskipping, Flyingdisc and Korean traditional sports that are working to get into the schools. KFF is however the only sport that gets support from the Ministry of education for this school Championship and both me and Mr. Guem Sung Kang have worked really hard for this, Mr. Hwang Joo Kim from KFF told.

The Ministry of education will send official invitation letters to all schools (over 10,000) and give they will provide the trophy to the Champions of the elementary and middle school teams.

- This is like a recognition from the Ministry of education and the assistance from the Ministry helps us a lot in organising a successful event. We are going to have three Floorball courts in one big Gym so that many schools can participate. We will also select our U19 national team during the event, Mr. Hwang Joo Kim continues.  Source & More information from: Korea Floorball Federation

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