World League 1 to begin in Glasgow

World League 1 logoMen’s World League 1 will get underway on Tuesday in Glasgow at the National Hockey Centre and gives Scotland the chance to move a step closer to qualifying for the Hockey World Cup in 2018. There is great confidence in the team that there is enough fire power within the Scottish ranks to shoot Scotland to success in Glasgow.

The tournament, which will decide who qualifies for World League 2 next year, will run from 6-11 September and gives Scottish fans a close up view of world-class hockey on their own doorstep.

Scotland will face Wales, Portugal, Slovakia and Switzerland in a round-robin tournament for the right to progress in the World League, and come into the competition on the back of a number of high scoring victories.

The team made a great start to the summer by winning a 4-Nations tournament in Poland, and then they racked up 17 goals over three games against Czech Republic in Prague. The men’s final preparations for World League 1 saw the team score 16 over three games against Italy in Glasgow.

Scotland striker Alan Forsyth said: “We’ve had a lot of tough games with good results and we’re going into World League looking sharp. One of our best attributes is going forward because the players we have will always score goals – we’ll just have to make sure that from the front we keep them out as well. We have massive confidence in the team and everyone gets going as soon as we step out onto the pitch. We’ve all got the same goal of winning the games and winning the tournament.”

Scotland’s Patch Christie will be playing his first home tournament, he said: “There’s a really good mood in the team. We all feel this is a tournament where we can perform and really do well at. Preparations have gone really well; we always say we focus on the performances rather than results but the results have been there and the performances have absolutely been there. We just have to make sure those results keep flowing.”

 

Match schedule

Tuesday 6 September 2016

17:00 – Portugal v Wales

19:15 – Scotland v Switzerland

 

Wednesday 7 September 2016

17:00 – Portugal v Switzerland

19:15 – Scotland v Slovakia

 

Thursday 8 September 2016

17:00 – Switzerland v Wales

19:15 – Portugal v Slovakia

 

Friday 9 September 2016

Rest day

 

Saturday 10 September 2016

12:00 – Slovakia v Wales

14:15 – Portugal v Scotland

 

Sunday 11 September 2016

12:00 – Slovakia v Switzerland

14:15 – Scotland v Wales

 

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