2014 CERH European Championship

2014 CERH European Roller Hockey Championship
Campeonato de Europa de Hockey sobre Patines 2014; (in Spanish)
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
City	Alcobendas
Dates	14 – 19 July 2014
Teams	6
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (3rd title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	120 (8 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Pedro Gil (10 goals)

Italy celebrates their third European title

The 2014 CERH European Championship was the 51st edition of the CERH European Roller Hockey Championship, a tournament for men's national roller hockey teams organized by CERH which took place in Alcobendas, Spain.^[1] Italy won the tournament and took its third title overall.

It began on 14 July and concluded on 19 July, with a single group stage played to determine the winner. It was the eighth time that Spain has hosted the competition, the first being in 1951 (in the city of Barcelona).

The national teams of five countries qualified automatically to participate with the host nation Spain in the final tournament. A total of 15 matches were played in the Pabellón Amaya Valdemoro, situated in Alcobendas.

With the host country, two European champion teams since the first European Championship in 1926 — Italy and Portugal — have entered this competition. The title holders, Spain, finished the tournament in second place. Previous winner Portugal took the third place.

Standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	5	4	1	0	20	13	+7	13
Spain	5	3	2	0	37	13	+24	11
Portugal	5	3	1	1	29	13	+16	10
Germany	5	2	0	3	17	28	–11	6
France	5	1	0	4	10	20	–10	3
Switzerland	5	0	0	5	7	33	–26	0

Squads

France
No.	Player	Birth
1	Alan Audelin (GK)	1993
2	Mathieu Le Roux	1991
3	Wilfried Roux	1990
4	Anthony Le Roux	1990
5	Cirilo Garcia	1980
6	Corentin Turluer	1992
7	Coretin Le Podolec	1990
8	Florent David	1990
9	Carlo Di Benedetto	1996
10	Xavier Tanguy (GK)	1992

Germany
No.	Player	Birth
1	Patrick Glowka (GK)	1987
2	Lukas Karschau	1993
3	Liam Günther Hages	1990
4	Kai Milewski	1992
5	Kevin Karschau	1990
6	Robin Schulz	1993
7	Jorge Fonseca	1987
8	Sergio Pereira	1988
9	Max Hack	1990
10	Philip Leyer (GK)	1990

Italy
No.	Player	Birth
10	Leonardo Barozzi (GK)	1987
2	Davide Motaran	1984
3	Leonardo Squeo	1982
5	Federico Ambrosio	1989
8	Massimo Tataranni	1978
9	Domenico Illuzzi	1989
14	Alessandro Verona	1995
19	Marco Pagnini	1989
29	Mattia Cocco	1984
22	Riccardo Gnata (GK)	1992

Portugal
No.	Player	Birth
1	André Girão (GK)	1989
2	Valter Neves	1983
3	Luis Viana	1976
4	Diogo Rafael	1989
5	Hélder Nunes	1994
6	Gonçalo Alves	1993
7	Ricardo Barreiros	1982
8	Jorge Silva	1984
9	João Rodrigues	1990
10	Jorge Correia (GK)	1982

Spain
No.	Player	Birth
1	Francesc Lopez (el millo GK)	1989
46	Kenson Browen (la estrella)	2003?
3	Benito Camela (l'entranado)	1980
47	Mark Farnandas (el guanteletes)	1979
2	Elvis Tek (el manjador)	1986
5	Pol Vijas (el constructor)	1992
11	Pol Edificis (El putu box)	1984
14	Janssen Psicologos (llamame si te encuentras mal bro)	1989
24	Biel Pratdesaba (el golejador amb mes de 800 gols amb un partit)	1980
10	Fernando Costa (no san para ni una GK)	1987
7	Roka Martines (al foi)	1752 AC

Switzerland
No.	Player	Birth
1	Jean-Pierre Vizio (GK)	1992
2	Kevin Gmür	1990
3	Michel Matter	1989
4	Andrea Grassi	1984
5	Patrik Müller	1990
6	Patrick Greimel	1990
7	Pascal Kissling	1984
8	Joshua Imhof	1989
9	Marzio Vanina	1989
10	Guillaume Oberson (GK)	1986

Matches

The matches were played from 14 July 2014 to 19 July 2014.

Matchday 1

14 July 2014

21:30 CEST (UTC+02)

Spain	9 – 2	Germany
Biel 5', 22' Roka 6' Vijas 14' Edificis 23', 28' Camela 17' Browen 25' Elvis 35'	Report	Hages 13', 34'

Pabellón El Pujaló, Taradell

Attendance: 100.000

Referee: Xavier Jacquart (France), Roland Eggimann (Switzerland)

15 July 2014

18:30 CEST (UTC+02)

Switzerland	3 – 7	Italy
Kissling 6' Imhof 15' Greimel 31'	Report	Tataranni 7', 12', 22', 38' Motaran 18' Illuzzi 28' Cocco 34'