Tuesday’s notices

Advice to all players: Drink water!
Don’t let the frisk breezes fool you – make sure you drink a proper amount of fluid during your days in Gothenburg, so you able to play all your games in Partille Cup without getting sick.
– Sun in combination with physical effort is tough for your body, and it is easy to dehydrate.
The players need both water, salt and sugar, says Lotta Brage in charge of Partille Cup’s medical team.

The luggage came – but no players
You have surely seen people at the airports stand and wait unsuccessfully for their bags. But in this story the situation in the other way around. The French handball club US Créteil was expected to Landvetter airport during Tuesday midmorning, but there were no players on the flight from Paris. Just luggage for 30 people and the teams’ collective equipment. Ten of them showed up during the afternoon instead, five more will come during the evening and the fifteen that is left are expected to Landvetter during Wednesday.

77 days to carry out Partille Cup
Partille Cup is played on 55 playing fields in central Gothenburg. It is five days with games, but also with time for the 19 000 players to do other activities. But if you would play all 3687 games directly after each other on one playing field –we would need 77 days to carry out the tournament. The total game time in minutes is 111 700, and then the finals would be played without extra time (sudden death).

Referees from 22 nations
198 referees make sure that the rules are followed during Partille Cup. It is more referees than ever before. There are more foreign referees than Swedish – 126 against 72. Many of the referees have travelled a long way to get to Gothenburg. Venezuela, India and Ghana are three of the 22 nations the referees come from.

New team gets clearance on Wednesday
On Wednesday a new team can get to be drawn in Partille Cup. Ondo State from Nigeria had practically given up hope to get their 12-years-old girls to Partille Cup, when an opportunity to get their visa application accepted opened up on Tuesday. The Nigerian embassy has given preliminary information that says that the players will get their visas on Wednesday morning. In that case the team will immediately drawn in to the tournament. If everything goes according to plans the team will take a flight from Nigeria during Wednesday evening and touch ground in Gothenburg on Thursday.