The 2006 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 47th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, the biennial

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competition. The competition took place in

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in the Pallazo dello Sport, also known as Pala Candy, from July 16 to July 22.

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won the competition for the 13th time, beating

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2–0 in the final. Portugal took the 3rd place after beating 5-4 the hosts,

. This competition was part of the Euro Roller Games 2006, that also featured the European Championships of roller skating and artistic roller skating.

Format

There are 3 groups of 3 teams in Phase I. Each team plays each other within the group and all teams but the worse 3rd place of all groups will go into the quarter-finals. Then, the losers and the team who didn't go to the quarter-finals will play a Poule for the 5th to 9th position. If any team played each other before this Poule, they won't be playing again: the results from Phase I will count. The winners in the quarter-finals keep playing each other in a knockout system until the winner is found. There is also a game for 3rd and 4th place for the losers at the Semi-finals. Every game lasts for 40 minutes, divided into 2 parts of 20, instead of the usual 50 minutes in some leagues.

Phase I

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Knockout Phase

Bracket

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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3rd Place Game

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Final

5th to 9th Poule

The games between teams that played against each other in Phase I are not repeated. The result from the Phase I game counted instead. This was the case for two matches, from Group A England vs. France and from Group B Austria vs. Germany: ---- ---- ---- The other matches were played as follows: ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Final table

Goal scorers

;12 goals * Francesco Dolce ;9 goals * James Taylor ;8 goals * Ramon Bassols * Ricardo Barreiros ;7 goals * Henry Guirec * Vítor Hugo *

Reinaldo Ventura Reinaldo Miguel Silva Ventura (born 16 May 1978 in Vila Nova de Gaia) is a Portuguese roller hockey player. Renowned as a prolific goalscorer with a strong middle-distance shot, he is capable of occupying both the midfielder or the forward positi ...

* Marc Gual * Pedro Gil ;6 goals * Sérgio Silva * Jorge Silva ;5 goals * Mirco Bertolucci ;4 goals * David Huber * Brendan Barker * Baptiste Lucas * Dominik Brandt * Davide Motaran * Josep Maria Ordeig ;3 goals * Sylvain Brochard * Sebastien Furstenberger * Remy Hourcq * Alessandro Bertolucci * Eduard Fernández * Lluís Teixidó * Florian Brentini * Michael Muller ;2 goals * Alex Martin * Marc Montardit * Ivan Villaro * Thomas Haller * Igor Tarassioux * Felix Bender * Mattia Cocco * Valter Neves * Tiago Rafael * Pedro Moreira * Sergi Panadero * Josep Maria Roca ;1 goal * Guillem Sarle * Juan Sebastian * Gunter Faul * Manuel Parfant * Thomas Simcic * Michael Schwendinger * Andrew Gregory * Karl Smith * Julien Huvelin * Andre Kussolek * Marc Schinkowski * Leonardo Squeo * Alberto Peripolli *

Jordi Bargalló Jordi Bargalló i Poch (born 5 December 1979, in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia) is a Spanish Roller hockey (quad), rink hockey player. He plays as a midfielder. Club career Bargalló first played at Noia Freixenet, from 1997/98 to 2001/02, where he won ...

* Matthieu Brentini * Federico Garcia-Mendez * Stefan Rubi * Gael Jimenez

Squads

Andorra

Austria

England

France

Germany

Italy

Portugal

Spain

Switzerland

External links

Information on the 2006 European Championship
{{Rink hockey international competitions Rink Hockey European Championship 2006 in roller hockey 2006 in Italian sport International roller hockey competitions hosted by Italy