2008 Rink Hockey European Championship

The 2008 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 48th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship—the biennial rink hockey competition for European national teams, supervised by CERH—that took place in the Spanish city of Oviedo, at the local arena Palacio de los Deportes (English: Sports Palace), on July 21–26, 2008. In a final against long-time rivals, Portugal, the hosts and holders Spain won their fifth consecutive European title.

2008 Rink Hockey European Championship
Campeonato de Europa de Hockey sobre Patines, Oviedo 2008
Tournament details
Host countrySpain
DatesJuly 21–26, 2008
Teams8
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Spain (14th title)
Runners-up Portugal
Third place Italy
Fourth place France
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored138 (5.75 per match)
Top scorer(s) Ricardo Barreiros (10)

Format

The tournament consists of two distinct phases: a single round-robin group phase and a knockout phase. In the first phase, the eight finalist teams are divided into two groups of four teams. Within each group, every team plays one match against all the other teams, to decide the group classification. Unlike previous editions, all participating teams advance to the quarterfinals phase, whatever their final placing in the group phase. In the quarterfinals, each group winner and the runner-up teams will play the third and fourth placed teams of the other group, respectively, for a place in the semifinals. The four losing teams will play one last game to decide their final ranking in the tournament. The quarterfinal winning sides progress to the semifinals and the two winners meet in the title-awarding final. A game deciding the third and fourth place will be held between the semifinal losing sides.

Group phase

The group phase was contested on July 21–23, with two matches per group, each day. Group A was composed by France, Italy, Netherlands and hosts Spain; Group B included Germany, England, Portugal and Switzerland.

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Spain33001739
Italy3201646
France31021183
Netherlands30031200
July 21, 2008
16:30 CET
Italy 2–0 France Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo
Juan Travasino
Mattia Cocco		 Report
Umpires:
Jordi Vidal (ESP) & Joaquim Carpelho (POR)
July 21, 2008
20:50 CET
Spain 7–1 Netherlands Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo
Jordi Bargallo (2)
Sergi Panadero
Josep Ordeig
Marc Torra
Marc Gual
Pedro Gil		 Report Arjan van Gerven
Umpires:
Mark Lewis (SUI) & Thomas Ullrich (GER)
July 22, 2008
16:30 CET
Netherlands 0–3 Italy Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo
Report Juan Travasino
Mattia Cocco
Leonardo Squeo
Umpires:
Oscar Valverde (ESP) & Xavier Jacquart (FRA)
July 22, 2008
20:11 CET
France 1–6 Spain Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo
Rémi Lasnier Report Josep Ordeig (3)
Sergi Panadero
Marc Gual
Pedro Gil
Umpires:
Massimiliano Carmazzi (ITA) & Thomas Ullrich (GER)
July 23, 2008
14:51 CET
Netherlands 0–10 France Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo
Report Sébastien Landrin (5)
Frédéric Hamon (2)
Rémi Lasnier
Olivier Lesca
Nicolas Guilbert
Umpires:
Mark Lewis (SUI) & Thomas Ullrich (GER)
July 23, 2008
20:12 CET
Spain 4–1 Italy Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo
Lluis Teixido (2)
Marc Gual (2)		 Report Juan Travasino
Umpires:
Joaquim Carpelho (POR) & Xavier Jacquart (FRA)

Group B

Knockout phase
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
July 24 — 17:30 CET (Match 16)
 
 
 England 0
 
July 25 — 18:30 CET (Match 19)
 
 Italy 5
 
 Italy 0
 
July 24 — 19:00 CET (Match 17)
 
 Portugal 5
 
 Netherlands 1
 
July 26 — 21:00 CET (Match 22)
 
 Portugal 10
 
 Portugal 0
 
July 24 — 21:00 CET (Match 18)
 
 Spain 1
 
 Spain 9
 
July 25 — 21:00 CET (Match 20)
 
 Germany 1
 
 Spain 3
 
July 24 — 15:45 CET (Match 15)
 
 France 0 Third place
 
 Switzerland 2
 
July 26 — 18:30 CET (Match 21)
 
 France 3
 
 Italy 4
 
 
 France 3
 

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Classification

5th–8th

Third place

Final ranking
Plc Team Pld W D L GF GA Diff
1 Spain6600304+26
2 Portugal6501326+26
3 Italy64021512+3
4 France620417170
5 Switzerland63121516−1
6 England6123916−7
7 Germany61141621−5
8 Netherlands6006446−42

Goalscorers

Below is a list of all the tournament goalscorers by decreasing number of goals scored:[1]

Squads

Spain
N Name Birthdate Position Club
1 Sergi Fernández 1985 GK CP Vic
2 Sergi Panadero 1985 D/M FC Barcelona
3 Josep Maria Ordeig 1981 D/M FC Barcelona
4 Marc Torra 1984 F CP Vic
5 Josep Maria Roca 1981 D/M CP Vic
6 Jordi Bargalló 1979 F Igualada HC
7 Lluís Teixidó 1978 D/M FC Barcelona
8 Marc Gual 1980 D/M Reus Deportiu
9 Pedro Gil 1980 F Reus Deportiu
10 Guillem Trabal 1979 GK Reus Deportiu
Coach Carlos Feriche

Portugal
N Name Birthdate Position Club
1 João Miguel 1973 GK Porto Santo, SAD
2 Valter Neves 1983 D/M SL Benfica
3 Ricardo Pereira 1978 F Bassano (ITA)
4 Tiago Rafael 1983 D/M OK Barcelos
5 Reinaldo Ventura (C) 1978 D/M FC Porto
6 Pedro Moreira 1985 D/M FC Porto
7 Ricardo Barreiros 1982 F SL Benfica
8 Ricardo Oliveira 1982 F FC Porto
9 Luís Viana 1976 F Bassano (ITA)
10 Ricardo Silva 1983 GK Juventude Viana
Coach Luís Sénica

France
N Name Birthdate Position Club
1 Nicolas Guillen 1982 GK SCRA St Omer
2 Rémi Lasnier 1987 US COUTRAS
3 Olivier Lesca 1987 SA Merignac
4 Henry Guirec 1978 SCRA St Omer
5 Jérôme Moriceau 1979 La Roche-sur-Yon
6 Frédéric Hamon 1977 HC Quevert
7 Sébastian Landrin (C) 1979 HC Quevert
8 Nicolas Guilbert 1985 SCRA St Omer
9 Igor Tarassioux 1977 Vaulx en Velin
10 Olivier Gelebart 1975 GK HC Quevert
Coach Fabien Savreux

References
  1. Classement des Butteurs (PDF) (in French). CERH. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
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