The Latvian floorball team “Valmiera” has signed a cooperation agreement with the Russian club Severodvinsk “Prometej”, the representatives of the unit informed the news agency LETA on Monday.
Both clubs have agreed to jointly organize children’s summer training camps in Valmiera. The cooperation plans also include experience exchange trips of the Prometeja coaching corps to Latvia to get acquainted with the work of Valmiera, internship with local coaches and share their experience with their working methods. It has also been agreed to form a team that could take part in children’s and youth floorball tournaments in both Europe and Russia.
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“We are pleased that the work done by Valmiera floorball club seems interesting to floorball specialists from other countries. Severodvinsk is a Russian floorball center, with dozens of youth floorball clubs active in the city. Cooperation will allow us to broaden our horizons in the training of children and youth, as well as plan to act as a “bridge” for the most talented young people in Russia to enter the European floorball scene. I believe that both floorball clubs will be the winners, ”said Artis Jansons, President of the Valmiera Team, with satisfaction.
Meanwhile, Lelde Bukovska, a senior public relations and communication specialist at the Vidzeme Olympic Center, told LETA that a joint camp could be held this summer, but on the condition that the governments of both countries change their position regarding restrictions on entry.
In case Russian athletes have to be quarantined for 14 days after entering Latvia, the guests will not go to Valmiera, but the cooperation will be implemented after the pandemic situation improves.
Representatives of other sports from Russia usually visit the Vidzeme Olympic Center in Valmiera, but currently training in Latvia is not available to them.
This week, in a conversation with the newspaper “Latvijas Avīze”, the President of the Latvian Floorball Union (LFS) Ilvars Pētersons revealed that in the new season, 13 clubs could play in the “Elvi Floorball League”, instead of 12 as last year. RTU / Rockets is mentioned as a possible newcomer.
In turn, four women’s teams could unite with the Estonian championship, in which four clubs also start.
At the end of March, the LFS Board has made a decision on all levels of the Latvian Floorball Championship 2019/2020. non – continuation of the annual season. All tournaments were canceled without determining the places taken by the teams and awarding the titles of Latvian champions.
The Cēsis “Lekrings” team was the best in the regular championship of the “Elvi Florbola League” men’s tournament, and the gentlemen had already started the elimination tournament, but Kocēni “Rubene” was at the top of the table in the women’s championship.
Last year, in the men’s competition, Lielvārde team won the Ulbroka club in the final with 6: 4, but in the women’s competition “Rubene” with 4: 3 in overtime beat “Ķekavu”.
