A new milestone for floorball was reached today, when the IFF Central Board approved the Burkina Faso Floorball Federation as IFF Member no. 70.
"During the last two years the IFF has been able to increase the number of member associations from 61 to 70, which is a substantial achievement and it’s even more positive to know that there are many more to come in the near future. We are extremely happy to see that the increased number of member associations are coming from all continents and at the time especially from Africa, after the first Africa Floorball Cup," says Mr. Tomas Eriksson, the IFF President.
There are currently 550 floorball players and 12 floorball clubs in Burkina Faso and the women's national team is the reigning Africa Floorball Cup champion.
WFC total attendance record
After six days played of the Men’s World Floorball Championships the total attendance record has been broken. On December 6th, with three competition days left, 106,694 spectators had already attended the WFC in Prague.
The previous total attendance record was from the Men’s WFC 2014 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with 104,445 spectators.
Quarter-finals continue at Men's WFC 2018
The first quarter-finals were played yesterday and Switzerland together with the host country Czech Republic advanced to the semi-finals.
The other two quarter-finals are played today:
Sweden - Latvia (QF2) 15:10 CET
Finland - Germany (QF4) 18:00 CET
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