Floorball fans get a taste of December’s WFC in Helsinki as Finland and Sweden meet in a double international in Finnish Eerikkilä on Thursday and Friday. Both games will be streamed live on Finnish Floorball Federation’s YouTube channel.
Both games will start at 18.00 local time (17.00 CET) and the channel can be found here.
As both the Finnish and Swedish national teams have their training camp at Eerikkilä Sports Institute this week it was agreed the teams would meet twice. No spectators will be admitted but both games can be watched free worldwide on Finnish Floorball Federation’s YouTube channel. Do not hesitate to subscribe to the channel as it is continuously updated with interesting floorball videos.
Team rosters can be found here for Finland and Sweden. For Sweden, though, Kim Nilsson will be replaced by Casper Backby due to injury.
As referees, IFF has appointed Manu Marttinen and Henri Heinola from Finland.
Head coaches Petteri Nykky (Finland) and Thomas Brottman (Sweden) share their pregame thoughts on the IFF website.
Photo of November 2019 international by Juhani Järvenpää