Lisbon Hosting the Final Four of the 2016 Men’s Euroleague of Rink Hockey

The upper crust of the European rink hockey will compete during the most prestigious Continental Cup. The finalist teams are: SL Benfica, FC Barcelona, UD Oliveirense and HC Forte dei Marmi. The « Pavilhao Fidelidade » of Lisbon is ready to host the last phase of the 2016 Men’s Euroleague of Rink Hockey. Next weekend, the four best teams in Europe will play for the most important Continental Cup of rink hockey clubs.

A very high level

It’s hard to imagine higher level than that. FC Barcelona, the title holder, won the Spanish title last week. SL Benfica, the hosting club, is only one stage away from another Portuguese national title. HC Forte dei Marmi (Italian Champion of the last two years) has entered the play-off final of the A1 Series three days ago. UD Oliveirense, 3rd at the Portuguese championships, reached the Final Four before being kicked out by FC Porto.
The four participating teams call all win the cup. It means that the three games scheduled on the weekend are guaranted to be of great sporting show.

An exceptional media coverage

The media coverage of the event will be even better as usual, with the RTP Portuguese TV channels, as well as Benfica TC and Catalan Esport3 Channel. The two semi-finals and the final will be broadcasted live, while CERH TV will broadcast all the games online for free throughout the world.

Rosters of the teams of the 2016 Final Four of Rink Hockey in Lisbon, Portugal.

Benfica (Portugal)

Pedro Henriques, Valter Neves, Rafael Diogo, Carlos Nicolia, Jordi Adroher, Marc Torra, Joao Rodrigues, Tiago Rafael, Miguel Rocha, Guillem Trabal. Coach. Pedro Nunes.

Barcelona (Spain)

Aitor Egurrola, Sergi Llorca, Marc Gual, Matias Pasqual, Lucas Ordoñez, Xavier Barroso, Pablo Alvarez, Nil Roca, Sergi Panadero, Sergi Fernandez. Coach. Ricard Muñoz.

Forte dei Marmi (Italy)

Federico Stagi, Davide Motaran, Alberto Orlandi, Pedro Gil, Marco Pagnini, Niccolò Mattugini, Enric Torner, Pablo Cancela, Giacomo Maremmani, Mattia Vérone. Coach. Pierluigi Bresciani.

Oliveirense (Portugal)

Domingos Pinho, Albert Casanovas, Martin Montivero, Pedro Moreira, Diogo Silva, Carlos Lopez, Ricardo Oliveira, Joao Souto, Ricardo Barreiros, Xavier Puigbi. Coach. Antonio Neves.

Referees

Arnaud Esoli (France), Xavier Bleuzen (France), Alessandro Da Prato (Italy), Alessandro Eccelsi (Italy), Francisco Garcia (Spain), Oscar Valverde (Spain).

The full results, game sheets, photos and videos will all be available on the CERH Website and on the Facebook Page, as well as on Twitter.

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