4/7-2011 Last day
Olympic Development Program now to an end for 2011!
After tomorrows ending ceremony the teams will prepair themselves for upcoming Partille Cup.
With one big solidarity party we ended this year Olympic Development Program. The day started with friendly matches against each other with happy participants in winning and loosing teams. The all nations have done big achievements during this whole week and they really tried their new skills in the games. All of the instructurs during this week have done a great job and thei effort and knowledge put into each nation teams will give them belief and positive feelinngs to their own opportunities.
The whole organisation feels that this year of Olympic Development Program was great and with positive atmosphere all around Ugglum school. We thank all personal for this yaer and hopefully all of you will come back next year.
India is also in place with boys and girls team, last years runner up in Partille Cup. They will tomorrow take some extra partices to be in shape for Partille Cup. We welcome them and wishes them all luck in tournement.
From all of us in the organisation to all participants, players and coaches in the feeling of handball solidarity and development. Try your best and make your contries proud. Take this experience with you back home and makes some positive activities to increase the feeling about the sport of handball.
Project leader and staff
Ulf Andersson
2/7-2011 Friendly games
Tomorrow (sunday) will the teams play some friendly games according to the following schedule.
Boys (Ugglum)
9.00 USA – China 26-22
10.20 Scotland – Singapore 28-31
11.40 England – Sävehof (youth team) 30-34
13.00 USA – China 40-29
15.00 China – Scotland 34-29
16.15 Sävehof (youth team) – England 29-19
Girls (Partillebohallen)
9.00 USA – Scotland 10-18
10.20 England – China 11-15
11.40 Scotland – USA 23-12
13.00 China – England 12-12
In the evening there will be a great ”Development Party” at Ugglum.
1-2/7-2011 Practises
Scotland and Singapore: Have continued to focus on catching the ball in pace both in passing and shooting. They have also practiced a lot of finishing as well as playing on the whole area.
USA also practiced to catch the ball in pace and cooperation in both attack play and defence. They have tried to find gates in the defenders play and to become better in fast breaks.
China practiced a lot of attack play and break-throughs to form an overall offensive. Like the US they have also worked with the fast breaks.
England as well has focused a lot on passing the ball in pace and the players have made good improvements. Further on they have practiced in fast breaks and in the end a two goal play.
Tomorrow there will be some friendly games for both the girls (Partillebohallen) and the boys (Ugglum).
30/6-2011 Practises
Today the english team has practiced a lot of the attack play, including individual start-ups and the cooperation between the nine- meter players and the pivot.
The Scots and the team from Singapore continued to play in defence. They have also added the cooperation between the players, both in the attack play and the defence.
The US team today practiced both attack play and how to defend. They have as well worked with individual technique.
As you could read yesterday our friends from China spent this day in Copenhagen, Denmark.
29/6-2011 Today’s practices
China: In the morning Lisette and Mikael focused on individual defense and in the afternoon they put it together into a defence for the whole team.
USA: Today´s practice with Henrik was individual attack play, consisting of break-throughs and changing of direction. The afternoon was free and the team choosed to go in to Gothenburg for a ride with the sightseeing-boat ”Paddan”.
Scotland and Singapore: Henrik and Erik started the practice with a rather tough coordination warming. They then moved on to break-through technique. Henrik was very satisfied with participants development during the exercise. In the afternoon the Singapore team went in to Gothenburg, while the Scots went shoping in Allum.
England: Today´s exercise with Ulf was attack-play. He put great importance into individual shooting in different ways and from different positions. Like Henrik, Ulf meant that the players developed their technique throughout the practice.
There are so many practice occations that each team has to have 2 halfdays off for their own activities. The chinese team has instead chosen to take a whole day off and go visiting the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen.
28/6-2011 Practices
Henrik Signell and Erik Larholm today showed the basis in how to pass the ball and how to shoot. The participants from Scotland and Singapore took part in the practices.
Henrik Sandmark showed the people from the US how to run in the right way and then moved over to the basis in passing the ball. The practice was completed by how defend individually.
Lisette Norén and Mikael Juliusson taught the participants from China how to pass the ball stationary and in pace against defenders.
Ulf Andersson practiced individual defense play with the English squad.
27/6-11 Welcome ceremony
The president of Partille Cup, Stefan Albrechtson, welcomed everyone to the Olympic Development. He also told us that this years cup is the greatest ever. What says about 1060 teams from 50 countries and 5 continents?
27/6-2011 The practice starts
Todays practises in the Olympic are based upon goalkeeping and coordination. Jesper Andersson takes care of the goalkeeping and Mauricio Alvarez the coordination.
All countries except India have now arrived. Problem with the visa has delayed the Indian group, but we know that they are on their way. As soon as they have arrived, we will state this on the website.
Tonight at 7 o´clock p.m. the welcome ceremony will take place. At that time we will welcome all the people from the participating countries and introduce them to our instructors.
Instuctors during this week will be:
Ulf Andersson, chief instructor (England)
Henrik Signell, assistant instructor (Scotland and Singapore)
Erik Larholm, assistant instructor (Scotland and Singapore)
Lisette Norén, assistant instructor (China)
Henrik Sandmark, assistant instructor (USA)
Johan Wrångelin, assistant instructor
Mikael Juliusson, assistant instructor (China)
Jesper Andersson, goalkeeping instructor
Mauricio Alvarez, coordination instructor
26/6-2011 Arrivals
Three of the countries have arrived (Singapore, USA and England). Tomorrow will the last three countries arrive (China, Scotland and India).
The opening ceremony will take place tomorrow evening instead of this evening.
Singapore is the first team to practise, the main themes tomorrow will be goalkeeping and coordination. If you are interested to watch you are welcome to Ugglum at 8 o’clock a.m.
Partille Cup has, together with the International Handball Federation (IHF), started a project called “Handball for future youth”. This project is supported by the Olympic Committee.
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The purpose of this project is to give undeveloped, but serious trying handball nations a real chance to get a platform for handball. We want to create a lifelong interest for sport and handball in particular. We also want to give leaders and players a basic education of handball in both theory and practice. The players shall also be inspired, not only in their role as players, but also to be a future leader inspiring schools and teachers/adults/leaders to set up clubs, starting competitions and clinics.
IHF has chosen 25 countries that Partille Cup will invite for a longer stay in Gothenburg. The goal for 2010 is to have 12 teams, 6 boys and 6 girls teams, with their leaders for a 14 days stay to be educated in handball. Partille Cup will arrange accommodation, clinics, training and matches for these teams.
IHF believes that this is a chance to move some countries to higher levels of sport and it will also be a chance for them, short after a week of hard training, to practise and to play in the world’s biggest and most famous handball tournament – Partille Cup. Here leaders and players get the best of opportunities to get connections and friends with the same interest.
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To get 20 enthusiasts of each country to return home, to teach and recruit new players, leaders and referees, to set up clubs, to start tournaments in the schools. In many countries football and basket are natural sports and everybody knows the playing rules. It can be difficult to be a pioneer of handball when there are no traditions. Therefore it’s needed for a group of enthusiasts to come and live with handball, to feel the rhythm, to know the rules better and to see the sport of a higher level.
- To be developed as players and to lead selections, regional and national teams
- To get new handball friends who can inspire and who can be lifelong friends
- To see how a tournament can be arranged and bring home parts of it when organizing similar with clubs or in schools
