Floorball sport is worth it, says IFF secretary general

Floorball sport.

Featured for only the second time in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, floorball is “a very fast and dynamic sport truly worthy to be on the program of any multi-sport event,” the secretary-general of the International Floorball Federation (IFF) has said.

"Floorball is a very fast and dynamic sport with a lot of spectacular player moves, fancy goals, and game transitions. It fits well into the program of any biennial multi-sport event as modern team sport so it is [only] fair to say that floorball, as it is growing very fast all over the world, but especially in Asia, is truly worthy to be on the program of any multi-sport event,” shared secretary general John Liljelund of the IFF in an interview GMA News Online in an email interview last Monday.

The Philippines men's team was ranked 4th when floorball was introduced in the sport program in 2015. 

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This year, both the Philippines men's and women's teams also both rank placed 4th, while Singapore became champion in the women's floorball competition and Thailand took home the gold in the men's competition https://floorball.sport/2019/12/01/sea-games-2019-floorball-results-final-day/.

“Floorball is a versatile indoor team sport played on a 40 x 20 m surface in a rink. Each team has five field players and a goalkeeper,” shared Mari Myllärinen, coordinator of the International Floorball Federation (IFF) told GMA News Online in an online interview also last Monday. —LBG, GMA News