The first and second video of the trip to boost korfball in South America are on line. You can watch them thru the IKF website: www.korfball.org or via the ikfchannel on YouTube.
The videos are recorded and produced in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Mr Dani Ezpeleta (CAT). Dutch master coach, Mr Jan Sjouke Van den Bos, four Dutch U23 international players, Mr Jorge Alves (POR) and Mr Dani Ezpeleta guide and support this promotion trip. The trip is a combined effort technical and financial from KNKV and IKF.
The trip lasts till 19 October. After the visit to Brazil the group visits Argentina. Right now they are in Argentina already.
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Today the logo of the next IKF Europa Shield event is published.
The IKF EShield 2015 is played in BERGISCH GLADBACH, GERMANY from Friday 30 January till Sunday 1 February 2015.
The organisers of the clubs of Pegasus and TuS Schildgen and the IKF coordinating officer, Mr Teun Lepelaar, are doing their utmost to make this next club event a huge succes again.
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Top players from the Dutch national under-23 team are accompanying KNKV’s master coach Jan Sjouke van den Bos, first to Brazil, then to Argentina, on a tour that will combine promotion, coaching and referee clinics and a pan-American international korfball tournament.
Starting in Sao Paulo, the Netherlands stars, Jelmer Jonker, Jet Hendriks, Barbara Brouwer, Marijn Van De Goorbergh and their coach, will conduct clinics in schools and universities, as well as providing training support for the regular teams located in the city of Americana.
Next they travel to Rio de Janeiro, where coach advisor Dick Kalkman of The Netherlands and referee Dani Ezpeleta from Catalonia join them. On 11 October they will be part of the National Brazilian Korfball Championship, before heading to Copacabana the next day for a beach korfball promotion on one of the world’s most famous beaches.
Leaving Brazil, they go to first Buenos Aires then La Plata in Argentina for another series of promotional activities in schools and universities, conducting clinics for physical education teachers and training with local teams.
Over the weekend of 18 and 19 October, the highlight of the tour will be the Torneo Internacional de Korfball – Argentina 2014, with national teams from Brazil and Colombia joining the host, Argentina, which will participate for the first time ever in an international korfball event.
IKF is grateful for the assistance of KNKV in setting up this tour, and also to IKF instructor and national coach of Brazil, Jorge Alves from Portugal, for co-ordinating activities.
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Saturday 25 October 2014 the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) starts in Maia, Portugal.
The IKF jury software system is direct connected to Internet again. Everybody can follow the matches live thru the link: IKF EKC 2014 on worldkorfball.org
The korfball app for smartphones is available as well and connected to the same database with all matches live.
All 16 teams prepare themselves to show their abilities and compete on the highest level.
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The qualification criteria for the next IKF World Korfball Championship (IKF WKC) in 2015 in Belgium are outlined in the document that you may find thru the link:Qualification arrangements for the IKF WKC 2015
After the the IKF All American Korfball Champonship, the IKF African Korfball Championship and the IKF Asia Oceania Korfball Championship it is obvious that with the IKF European Korfball Championship still on the agenda “Revised arrangements 3” is applicable. This means a total of 10 European national teams will participate in the 9th IKF World Korfball Championship in 2015.
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The IKF published the four pools of four national teams each and the match schedule for the IKF European Korfball Championship scheduled to be held in Maia, Portugal, from 25 October to 2 November 2014.
Sixteen countries are participating and have been drawn into four pools of four. Unlike in previous championships, in order to try and prevent matches with a predictable result and large goal difference in the early round the selection of teams for the pools has been done in a different way on this occasion. Pools A and B have pools containing the highest ranked countries and pools C and D the lowest ranked countries. Countries ranked 1, 2 or 3 in pools A and B progress to the quarter finals for places 1 to 8 together with the countries finishing first in pools C and D. The remaining countries (4th in pools A and B plus 2nd, 3rd or 4th in pools C and D) will play quarter finals leading to a ranking of 9th to 16th.
England Korfball will welcome the national teams from Catalonia, Scotland and Wales in September for a set of international friendly matches to be played in London as part of the preparation for the IKF European Korfball Championship later this year.
With England ranked 3rd and Catalonia ranked 5th in Europe, the matches between these two teams are promising to be highly competitive. Wales’ current European ranking is 11th while Scotland is the 16th European nation on the most recent IKF World Korfball Ranking. The IKF has been encouraging its member countries to play more official friendly matches and very much welcomes the initiative by the EKA for this event in one of Europe’s premier cities.
The pre-european championship tournament will take place on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September 2014 at Whitgift Sports Centre, Croydon, South London.
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The final between rivals The Netherlands and Belgium was very close, with half time reached at 12-11 for the Dutch. However, five minutes into the second half, with the score 14-14, the started Dutch an eight minute “blackout” ending with Belgium leading 19-14. Nobody would put their money on the Dutch at this stage but they didn’t give up and equalized just before normal playing time ended, the scoreboard stopping at just 0.1 second as their equalising goal was given, leaving the score at 23-23. The Golden Goal period started with the Dutch shooting precisely to score in their first attack. But Belgians equalised in their attack to make it 24-24. The next attack finished with a wrong Dutch shot and the Belgians used their chance to win 25-24. The last time Belgium had defeated their Dutch rival in an IKF Youth level Championship was 28 years ago in Marbella and it was 23 years ago since the Belgians had defeated their neighbours in any IKF major final.
The bronze medal match was between Portugal and England. This game was not about good quality shooting and was very close until the 33rd minute when Portugal stepped forward with two goals to open a lead that England could not close. They finally won 14-11 (h/t 5-5) placing Portugal 3rd and England 4th.
In the other matches, the game between Czechs and Catalans was expected to be a close fight, but the spectators saw a parallel with the Brazil world cup semi-final as in only the sixth minute it was already 7-1 for Czechs and the Catalans looked really down. But the Czechs thought that game was decided and let Catalans to come back to a more acceptable half time score of 13-10 for Czech Republic. In the second half, however, the Czechs didn’t allowed any more questions to be asked, raising the difference to 10 goals ending game 26-18, confirming the Czechs Republic 5th and Catalonia 6th.
The match for 7th and 8th place was Germany vs. Russia. The Russians started better, but Germany hit back to lead 8-7 at half time. It remained balanced until midway through the second half when Germany began to prevail, finally winning 18-13 placing Germany 7th and Russia 8th.
Hungary played Poland for 9th place. The game was equal until half time (7-7) but second half started with a Hungarian offensive and the Poles couldn’t pull back, resulting in a 17-13 win for Hungary placing them 9th and Poland 10th.
Turkey did not play on the final day and were placed 11th.
The IKF photographer Mr Cor Mantel was around in Olomouc (CZE) to make pictures. We give you an impression.
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The IKF U21 European Korfball Championship does have a new winner. Belgium U21 beat their eternal rivals The Netherlands U21 after an exciting match with a Golden Goal extension. After 23 – 23 after normal playing time Belgium U21 wins 25 – 24 under guidance of referee Dean Woods (ENG).
Portugal U21 earns the bronze medal after beating England U21 (14 – 11).
Final ranking IKF U21 EKC 2014
1
BELGIUM
2
NETHERLANDS
3
PORTUGAL
4
ENGLAND
5
CZECH REPUBLIC
6
CATALONIA
7
GERMANY
8
RUSSIA
9
HUNGARY
10
POLAND
11
TURKEY
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Belgium did beat the Netherlands 25 – 24 in an exciting Golden Goal final in the IKF U21 European Korfball Championship. After normal playing time it was 23 – 23. The Dutch scored the equalizer 1 second before the end!
