Award for the Floorball-Champions

published on 25 February, 2015

Award for the Champion

The Swedish Men’s Floorball Team has been awarded IWGA Team of the Month for December 2014. On behalf of IWGA President José Perurena, the President of the International Floorball Federation Tomas Eriksson presented the prize, a specially engraved Tissot watch.

Captain Johan Samuelsson accepted the honors at a ceremony following the elite match between AIK Innebandy and Granlo on Saturday. Samuelsson is one of the players of Innebandy.

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Samuelsson and his teammates secured the World Floorball Championship title in Gothenburg, Sweden in December 2014. The defending champions achieved the title with a 3-2 win over Finland.

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