We would like to congratulate the medalists for their great games and sporting spirit. We have enjoyed being part - even though only in spirit and glued to our computer screens.

Thank you, Namibia National Team. You have provided us with great entertainment and pride. You also helped us water those small seeds of teamwork within our Namibian InLine hockey culture.

Have a safe journey home.  

Portugal managed to score only 18seconds into the game and added another goal still in the first period.

The second period saw Taipei retaliate and tie Portugal almost 3minutes into the 3. period and then go into the lead. Still in the same period Portugal tied and took back the lead with a score of 4:3.

In the final period both teams added one goal and then Taipei tied at 43min11. At 45min30 Portugal took timeout. Within seconds after regaining the game Portugal managed to go into the lead. Although Taipei, after taking timeout, took out the goalie to add another field player the final score remained in favour of Portual.

Portugal 6 : Chinese Taipei 5

13 penalties were given with Taipei taking the bigger share of 8.

Portugal's goaltender had 27 saves versus the Taipei goalie with 21.

15h00: Australia against Namibia. Will we succeed to achieve the magical 13? Erik Rodenwoldt is fending the goal. 3min11 and Australia scores the first goal, player number 11. 9min11 and Australia gets a penalty for interference. Erik has 7 saves. The Australian goalie has a 100% save record in this period.

Second period. 50 seconds and Australia scores the second goal. At 15min30 into the game our team has three goals against them.

1min11 into the 3. period Namibia gets a penalty and Australia uses the chance to increase to 4 and then to 5 goals. Finally, at 32min53 Oliver Lohmeier scores the first goal for Namibia.

Final quarter. 30seconds and Timo Giersch adds a goal for Namibia. Then Australia score again. Cello Baas adds his point 1min18 seconds after the goal by Timo. Now we are moving. Australia gets penalised twice and then Lliam Webster gets a 10 minute misconduct penalty. This gives Quintin Kotze and Robert Roxin the opportunity to increase our goals to five. Australia take a timeout at 46:18.

Final score Australia 6 : Namibia 5.

The Australian goaltender saved 27 shots on their goal versus 19 saves by Erik Rodenwoldt.

There were 7 penalties given in this game. One for Namibia.

The 14th position in this World Championship is ours.

Thursday. The Namibian Team will face Hungary in this match. Hungary were defeated by Great Britain in a nerve-racking game on Tuesday evening, where the game went into overtime at 8:8 and had to be decided through a penalty shootout.

The game between Japan and Australia was tight this morning 7:6 in overtime. Australia gave Japan a good run for their position. The games seem slightly behind schedule. Our game today will be tough. We have Rene Werner fending our goal. 2min03 into the first period and Acos Mehes (22 - what is it with this number?) scores the first goal for Hungary. Three more goals follow for Hungary within the next 2 minutes. Ok, that is a bit more than a wake-up call. Rene, who else is on the field? Seems like a lot of Hungarians out there! Yes, 9min44 and Harald Keil assisted by Quintin Kotze scores a goal.

Second period starts off with another goal against Namibia. Then there are two penalties to be served, one by each team. 11seconds before half time Hungary gets penalised again.

Third period. Almost 4 minutes into this period and the score against us increased to 7. The minutes are slowly ticking by. Our goalie has 14 saves in his favour and Hungary's goalie 12. At 32min06 Cello Baas assisted by Harald Keil manage to score 7:2. 1min18 before the end of this period Hungary score their 8th goal in this match. 9seconds to go in this period and Cello Baas gets a penalty for hooking.

Last period. Hungary gets a penalty for roughing and then one for "too many men on ice". There, I had that feeling from the start - too many Hungarians. Another goal is scored by Hungary. 43min29 and Lutz Feddersen assisted by Harald Keil find a way for the puck into the Hungarian goal. 46min36 and a Hungarian player gets penalised for hooking. Could we manage one more goal? No, final score Hungary 9 : Namibia 3. This was a good game. Our team stayed in the single figures parameter and managed to reduce the goal difference by a third. Nice.

Rene Werner, our goalie for this game was awarded player of the match. He saved 34 shots against the Namibian team and the two Hungarian goaltenders managed to save 19 shots at their goal.

There were 7 penalties given with Hungary taking 4 plus that one for too many men.

Tomorrow our team will face Australia at 11h00 Namibian time. This game will determine the rank.

The second period starts off with Michael Ellinger and Clive Vermaak being penalised for hooking. Then, 19min21 Clive Vermaak assisted by Basti Faber scores the 1:3 and only 43sec later Cello Baas assisted by Jörg Güther score the next goal. At 22Min10 with Harald Keil in the penalty box Taipei reduce the score to 2:4 . Half time.

43seconds into the third period and Taipei score a goal while Namibia has one player in the icebox. 26min05 Oliver Lohmeier assisted by Cello Baas increase the lead to 5 goals. 2min32 later Riyaan Ely assisted by Basti Faber adds another point. At 29min22 Li-wei Chou again - 4:6. 31min11 Michael Lohmeier assisted by Jörg Güther increase to 7 goals and Taipei takes a timeout. Only 20sec after the timeout Taipei scores. 34min47 and Jörg Güther scores assisted by Michael Lohmeier.

Last period. 42min21 and Taipei comes closer with their score to 6:8. 42min54 Namibia takes timeout.
45min28 Taipei scores another goal. Taipei takes out the goalkeeper 29seconds before end of game. The final score Chinese Taipei 7 : Namibia 8.

Player of the match for Namibia: Oliver Lohmeier (88).

11 penalities were given in this game with Namibia taking 6.

Erik Rodenwoldt saved 27 shots on the goal versus Taipei's Kuo-chang Chin saving 32.

15h00: Next game in group D Brazil against Japan. Group leader Brazil with 22 goals for and only 3 against them faced Japan with 16 goals for and 6 against them. Both teams had a total of 6 points after two games into the championchips. Jose Guilardi - he scored the 1:1 in the first period and the 5. goal in the third period against Namibia - scored the first goal for his team 5min29 into the game. Two minutes and 23 seconds later Japan tied.

In the second period the teams seemed to be busy with tripping, interference, slashing, holding and a misconduct penalty for the better of the first 6min. Then Japan scored twice within 52seconds.

The third period saw Brasil reduce to 2:3 and then tie while Japan served a penalty for hooking. Both goals were scored by Bruno Gomes.

4. period. Japan took a timeout at 41min24 with Brazil's Diego Araujo assisted by Bruno Gomes scoring the leading goal 93seconds after resuming the game.

Final score Brazil 4 : Japan 3.

13 penalties were given in this game with Japan taking 7.

This seemed an equal game with Brazil's Rodrigo Santos saving 27 and Koji Shishido from Japan saving 26 shots for their teams.

Todays results in group D leave the following ranking: Brazil with a total of 9 points followed by Japan with 6. Namibia with a win this morning 3 points and Chinese Taipei in forth position.

Tomorrow qualifying games will be on for the leaders in group C and D to face forth position holders of group A and B.

On the 14.07.05 at 15h00 Namibia will play against second of group C which will be either Hungary or Great Britain pending their match today at 17h00.

The Namibian National team and their supporters will have a day to regain their strength.

Taipei changed goalies for the 3. period in the game, but still Brazil managed to add three scores for their team.

Pedro Raposo managed to score 8 times for his team over those 48 minutes, where he scored two goals - the same as his team mate, Caua Guzman - out of the seven goals against our Namibian Team.

The final score was Brazil 15 : Chinese Taipei 0.

Ten penalties were given altogether with Brazil taking the bigger share of 6 penalties in this game.

Brazil's Marco Andrade saved 16 shots against his team. The three Taipei goalies together managed to save 53 shots on their goal.

The second game for group D had Japan playing against Namibia with Rene Werner defending our goal. The Namibian team started of with Basti Faber in the Icebox 19 seconds into the first period. Shuhei Tadamura managed to use this and scored the first goal for Japan. 4min29 later another goal followed for Japan. Still in the first period our Timo Giersch reduced the scores to 2:1.

The second period seemed to present a dejaveau with Robert Roxin going to cool off two minutes into this period. Japan increased the pressure with them being penalised for slashing, hooking and cross-checking during the next ten minutes. This at the end of the second period gave Riyaan Ely assisted by Clive Vermaak the chance to tie.

Japan changed goalkeeper with Koji Shishido to fend the goal. Timo Giersch scored the leading goal at 28min21 with Japan tying only 15seconds later.

Erik Rodenwoldt took the post in the goal for Namibia in the last period. Japan was penalised for interference 40min11 into the game. Only 1min56 later Japan managed to score twice within 26 seconds giving Japan the lead of two goals. A timeout for Namibia was called at 42min36. Japan's Daihei Kurokawa assisted by Osamu Ishibashi added to the final score at 45min55 to Japan 6 : Namibia 3.

Timo Giersch received the "man of the match" title.

Rene Werner saved 27 shots against his team in the first three periods and Erik Rodenwoldt added 9 saves. Japan's two goalies saved 30 shots on their goal.

There were 8 penalties given in this game with Japan taken the bigger share of 6 penalties.

Sunday, 10/07/2005 at 13:00 Japan and Taiwan were to start the games for group D.
Japan's player no. 22 scored the first goal after 1min59 followed by three more goals for Japan in that period. The second period saw Taipei adding one goal versus the two goals scored by Japan. Taipei managed to reduce the goal difference by another goal after 30min02 into the game. The final score counted Japan 10: Taiwan 3. Twenty penalties were given during the 4 periods of the game which divided equally on the two teams.

Two hours later at 15:00 the Namibian team with Erik Rodenwoldt defending the goal faced Brazil. Only 48 seconds into the game Brazil's Jose Guilardi was penalised with 1.5min for holding. The first goal was scored by Riyaan Ely 1Min06 into the first period. Jose Guilardi assisted by Bruno Gomes managed to tie 10min58 into the game.

After 22min25 Brazil went into the lead with a goal by Diego Araujo assisted by Caio Petito.

In the third period Brazil managed to add four goals when Michael Ellinger assisted by Marco Debortoli reduced the goal difference after 35min41 played in the game.

Both Brazil's Pedro Raposo assisted by Caua Guzman and Namibia's Quinton Kotze managed to add points to the final score of Namibia 3 : Brazil 7.

10 penalties were given in this match with both teams taking equal shares.

Michael Ellinger received the "man of the match" title.

Erik Rodenwold managed to save 34 shots against his team during the game versus Bazil's Rodrigo Santos who saved 21 shots.

Tomorrow Brazil will face Taiwan at 13:00 and Japan will take on Namibia two hours later.

Im ersten Viertel hielt sich unser Team gut, obwohl die Spieler sehr nervös waren: Die grösse des Rings war ungewohnt; Pässe klappten nicht immer. Im zweiten Viertel wurde alles etwas lebendiger und der Druck von den Gladiators war stark.

Nach der Halbzeit konnten unsere Spieler dann das erste Tor verzeichnen um den 6:0 Rückstand leichter zu machen.

Das Spiel endete 14:2 für die Gladiators.

Unsere Tor Schützen: 1. Michael Ellinger; 2. Riaan Ely.
Das Gladiator Team: 5 National Spieler aus der INLINE & Eis Hockey Liga und der Captain Udo Schmidt mit viel Erfahrung als National Spieler.

Nach einer intensiven Trainings Session heute morgen geht es nun ab nach Finnland; mit neuem Mut. Die Jungs müssen sich an die für uns Übergrosse Bahn gewöhnen.

Dr. Shipo und Herr Katamba waren begeistert und haben allen viel Erfolg gewünscht. Auch Hanno Rumpf (Konsul für Namibia) hat Unterstützung zugesagt.

Mit dem Kampfgeist und der Fittness unsere Spieler sollten wir doch eine Gute Chance in Finnland haben!