PC Field Hockey Game – Player Walking (WIP)

We are proud to announce the second animation for the PC Field Hockey Game. More details about the PCFHG are located on the PCFHG website:

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Champions Trophy – Australia beat England to remain unbeaten

Spain 4 v 5 Germany HT 2-3 | 2009-12-01 15:05
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Netherlands 1 v 2 South Korea HT 1-1 | 2009-12-01 17:05
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Australia 2 v 1 England HT 1-1 | 2009-12-01 19:05
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Australia only had a narrow 2-1 win over England but they maintain their unbeaten record and look strong candidates for the final. The Dutch lost to a late goal from Seo of Korea and will probably need to win their two remaining games to make the final. germany won a 9 goal epic against spain and this leaves the Spannish bottom of the table on one point with England.

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PC Field Hockey Game – First Animation

We are proud to announce the first animation for the PC Field Hockey Game. PCFHG located on the PCFHG website:

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Champions Trophy – Australia smash Dutch for 7, England + Spain Draw, Korea shock Germany with 5

Australia blow the Netherlands away with a 5 goal 1st half performance. Korea much improved from day one and shocked Germany with 4 second half goals.

Xavi RIBAS scored twice but Spain and they were made to fight all the way to secure a draw against England, A late goal from Edi TUBAU ensuring that the points were shared.

South Korea 5 v 3 Germany HT 1-1 | 2009-11-29 13:05
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Netherlands 2 v 7 Australia HT 1-5 | 2009-11-29 15:05
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England 3 v 3 Spain HT 3-2 | 2009-11-29 17:05
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GB Squad named for Argentina tests

Eight players will experience the pride of pulling on a Great Britain shirt for the first time next month after Great Britain Head Coach Danny Kerry announced his 18-athlete squad for December’s five game test series against Argentina in Salta.

Included among the eight GB debutants are four Leicester players: Gemma Darrington, Katie Long, Hannah Macleod and Laura Unsworth. Also due to make a first appearance are Kirsty Mackay, Reading’s Emily Maguire, Natalie Seymour of Canterbury, and Slough’s Nicola White. For Mackay, the Bowdon Hightown goalkeeper, an appearance in South America would mark her full international debut as she has yet to play for England at senior level.

The series will also mark the return of Crista Cullen to the international fold, the international centurion having taken a year out after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games where she helped Great Britain to a sixth place finish.

Also included in the squad are Helen Richardson and Susie Gilbert who were shortlisted for World Player of the Year and World Young Player of the Year respectively on Wednesday afternoon by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

Speaking as he announced his squad, Kerry said: “This is a good opportunity for us on a number of levels. It is the earliest a GB squad has ever assembled for such a test series during an Olympic cycle and we look forward to developing a number of parts of our game playing against the World’s current number two side.

“We welcome back the presence of Crista Cullen while for a number of the younger members of the squad, such as Emily Maguire, the series will offer them further exposure to top flight hockey and a first taste of the technical skills of ‘Las Leonas’.”

In October, the squad began its Centralised Training Programme, with the coaches and athletes benefitting from more contact time as Kerry explains: “As part of our preparations for London 2012 the group has been training together on a weekly basis at Bisham Abbey. Even though it is early days in the programme there are some very good signs of gains being made and we look forward to putting those into practice against Argentina.

“Playing in Argentina is one of the most enjoyable experiences of an international career. The crowds are several thousand in number, with an amazing carnival atmosphere and I’m certain the players will benefit immensely from the occasion.”

Running from 12-18 December, the women’s series is being held to coincide with the BDO Champion’s Challenge I, an International Hockey Federation (FIH) event for the men’s teams ranked between 7th and 15th in the world.

THE SQUAD

Name (Club) Position [Home Nation]

Crista Cullen (Leicester) Defender [England]
Alex Danson (Reading) Forward [England]
Gemma Darrington (Leicester) Defender [England]
Jo Ellis (Reading) Forward [England]
Susie Gilbert (University of Birmingham) Midfielder [England]
Rebecca Herbert (Leicester) Forward [England]
Katie Long (Leicester) Forward [England]
Kirsty Mackay (Bowdon Hightown) Goalkeeper [England]
Hannah Macleod (Leicester) Forward [England]
Emily Maguire (Reading) Defender [Scotland]
Helen Richardson (Reading) Midfielder [England]
Chloe Rogers (Leicester) Midfielder [England]
Natalie Seymour (Canterbury) Defender [England]
Laura Unsworth (Leicester) Defender [England]
Abi Walker (Canterbury) Goalkeeper [Scotland]
Kate Walsh (Reading) Defender [England]
Sally Walton (Bowdon Hightown) Defender [England]
Nicola White (Slough) Forward [England]

Netherlands hold off Spain in Champions Trophy

The Netherlands narrowly took all 3 points after a strong second half comeback from Spain. The Dutch emerged as 3-2 winners in a game that burst into life in the second half following a Dutch dominated first period. This game will be remembered as the game that Taeke TAEKEMA overtook Sohail ABBAS on the Champions Trophy all time goal scorers list.

Germany overcame England by the same score and Australia dispatched Korea 4-0

Germany 3 v 2 England HT 1-1 | 2009-11-28 13:05
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Australia 4 v 0 South Korea HT 2-0 | 2009-11-28 15:05
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Spain 2 v 3 Netherlands HT 0-2 | 2009-11-28 17:05
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World Cup 2010 Full Line Up

With Argentina as the last team to qualify, all 12 participants for the Hero Honda FIH World Cup are known. The 12 top men’s hockey nations will play for the World Title in New Delhi, India from 28 February-13 March 2010. and they are:

India (Host)

Canada (Champion of the 3rd Men’s Pan American Cup)

Korea (Champion of the 8th Men’s Asia Cup)

South Africa (Champion of the Africa Cup of Nations, 2009)

Australia (Champion of the 6th Men’s Oceania Cup)

England (Champion of the 12th Men’s EuroHockey Nations Championship)

Germany (Silver medalist of the 12th Men’s EuroHockey Nations Championship)

Netherlands (Bronze medalist of the 12th Men’s EuroHockey Nations Championship)

Spain (Fourth ranked team of the 12th Men’s EuroHockey Nations Championship)

Pakistan (Winner of the Men’s World Cup Qualification Tournament – No. 1)

New Zealand (Winner of the Men’s World Cup Qualification Tournament – No. 2)

Argentina (Winner of the Men’s World Cup Qualification Tournament – No. 3)

Barry Middleton named BOA Athlete of 2009

Barry Middleton has been named by Great Britain Hockey as its BOA Athlete of the Year 2009.

The award is presented to the British athlete deemed to have been the top performing athlete of the year and is selected by Great Britain Hockey on behalf of the British Olympic Association.

Speaking after being told of the award, Doncaster-born Middleton said: “I’m obviously very pleased to have won it but also very surprised. It’s certainly not something I expected and to be honest, I think there are a number of people in the squad that have performed excellently this year and could have won it.”

It was his performances at the 2009 EuroHockey Nations Championships (the European Cup) in particular that earned Middleton the Athlete of the Year award and Great Britain Hockey Performance Director David Faulkner expressed his congratulations, saying: “I am personally delighted that Barry has been recognised not just for his outstanding performances on the pitch but for also for the way in which he lead the England team to the their first ever win at the European Cup in Amsterdam earlier this year”

Despite being just 25 years old, Middleton, who is captain of England and who was Great Britain vice captain at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, is one of the veterans of the team having played in two Olympic Games, one World Cup, four European Cups and one Commonwealth Games.

He made his senior international debut against Belgium in April 2003 and has since gone on to win 74 caps for Great Britain and 118 for England. His total of 26 goals for Great Britain is unrivalled in the current squad and he has a further 30 to his name for England, five of which came during the successful EuroHockey Nations Championships campaign this summer, including one in the final against the reigning World and Olympic champions Germany.

A Sports Science graduate from Loughborough University, the former Doncaster and Cannock player now plays his club hockey with HGC in the Netherlands and is currently in Melbourne with the England squad as they prepare for the ABN AMRO Men’s Champions Trophy, which gets underway on 28 November.

Argentina takes the last 2010 World Cup Place

Argentina 4 v 3 Belgium HT 0-2 | 2009-11-22 14:35
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The final match of the tournament between Argentina and Belgium, the all-important fight for the last remaining ticket to Delhi, was an expectedly fiercely contested battle between two worthy teams.

Belgium worked their way to an early advantage when Cedric Charlier sunk a field goal in the 14th minute and Jeffrey Thys added another ten minutes later. Two goals up at the end of the first half, it looked like Belgium were going to run away with the match, but Argentina were not defeated just yet. With Pedro Ibarra sinking a penalty corner just after the break, Argentina first got on the scoreboard, only to see Jerome Dekeyser re-establishing the two goal lead ten minutes later.

A penalty stroke awarded to Argentina five minutes later turned the tide however, Pedro Ibarra displaying the same reliability as ever, which eventually made him the topscorer in the competition. Fuelled by the goal, Argentina played more and more offensively, attacking continuously, and getting in the equalizer a few minutes later.

With the scores level, it was all open battle between the two top teams in this competition, but to the great joy of the stadium-filling crowd at the Quilmes stadium, it was the Argentine team who edged the Belgians out for the elusive ticket to Delhi with a goal from Mario Almada eight minutes from the end. A fierce final phase of the game, in which both teams played their hearts out, saw no further goals, and the Argentineans erupted in cheers after having ended up defeated at bthe last three occasions it really mattered.

Argentina thus took voctory in the match and gold in the tournament, while Belgium took silver. Ireland ended up with Bronze, ahead of the Czech Republic, the USA and Chile. Individual awards were presented to Argentina for Fair Play, Pedro Ibarra of Argentina as the topscorer, Filip Neusser of the Czech Republic as Best Goalkeeper and Felix Denayer as Best Player.

Ireland 1 v 1 Czech Republic HT 1-0 | ET 2-1 | 2009-11-22 09:35
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Chile 1 v 2 USA HT 0-0 | 2009-11-22 09:35
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Final Standings

Argentina
Belgium
Ireland
Czech Republic
USA
Chile