The 2008 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 48th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship—the biennial rink hockey competition for European national teams, supervised by CERH—that took place in the Spanish city of Oviedo, at the local arena Palacio de los Deportes (), on July 21–26, 2008. In a final against long-time rivals, Portugal, the hosts and holders Spain won their fifth consecutive European title.
Format The tournament consists of two distinct phases: a single round-robin group phase and a knockout phase. In the first phase, the eight finalist teams are divided into two groups of four teams. Within each group, every team plays one match against all the other teams, to decide the group classification. Unlike previous editions, all participating teams advance to the quarterfinals phase, whatever their final placing in the group phase. In the quarterfinals, each group winner and the runner-up teams will play the third and fourth placed teams of the other group, respectively, for a place in the semifinals. The four losing teams will play one last game to decide their final ranking in the tournament. The quarterfinal winning sides progress to the semifinals and the two winners meet in the title-awarding final. A game deciding the third and fourth place will be held between the semifinal losing sides.
Group phase The group phase was contested on July 21–23, with two matches per group, each day. Group A was composed by France, Italy, Netherlands and hosts Spain; Group B included Germany, England, Portugal and Switzerland.
Group A Team Spain 33001739 Italy 3201646 France 31021183 Netherlands 30031200
Group B
Knockout phase
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Classification
5th–8th
Third place
Final ranking Team 1 Spain6 6 0 0 30 4 +26 2 Portugal 6 5 0 1 32 6 +26 3 Italy 6 4 0 2 15 12 +3 4 France 6 2 0 4 17 17 0 5 Switzerland 6 3 1 2 15 16 −1 6 England 6 1 2 3 9 16 −7 7 Germany 6 1 1 4 16 21 −5 8 Netherlands 6 0 0 6 4 46 −42
Goalscorers Below is a list of all the tournament goalscorers by decreasing number of goals scored:
10 goals Ricardo Barreiros 7 goals Marc Gual Sébastien Landrin 6 goals Jens Behrendt Pedro Gil Josep Ordeig 5 goals Mark Wochnik Mattia Cocco Juan Travasino Ricardo Oliveira 4 goals Jordi Bargallo Valter Neves 3 goals Gael Jimenez
Matthieu Infante Reinaldo Ventura Ricardo Pereira Sergi Panadero Federico Mendez Marc Waddingham Luis Viana Tiago Rafael Andreas Muenger Lluis Teixido 2 goals Dominic Wirth Arjan van Gerven Leonardo Squeo Felix Bender Rémi Lasnier Nicolas Guilbert Frédéric Hamon Guirec Henry Domenico Illuzzi
John Jones 1 goal Pedro Moreira Marc Torra Michael Ableson Simon von Allmen Olivier Lesca Diego Nicoletti Robbie van Dooren James Taylor Mark Rutland Russell Lloyd Dominic Brandt Michael van Gemert Thomas Haupt Max Bros Igor Tarassioux
Squads
Spain
NNameBirthdatePositionClub1Sergi Fernández1985GKCP Vic2Sergi Panadero1985D/MFC Barcelona3Josep Maria Ordeig1981D/MFC Barcelona4Marc Torra1984FCP Vic5 Josep Maria Roca1981D/MCP Vic6Jordi Bargalló1979FIgualada HC7Lluís Teixidó1978D/MFC Barcelona8Marc Gual1980D/MReus Deportiu9Pedro Gil1980FReus Deportiu10Guillem Trabal1979GKReus DeportiuCoachCarlos Feriche
Portugal
NNameBirthdatePositionClub1João Miguel1973GKPorto Santo, SAD2Valter Neves1983D/MSL Benfica3Ricardo Pereira1978FBassano (ITA)4Tiago Rafael1983D/MOK Barcelos5 Reinaldo Ventura (C)1978D/MFC Porto6Pedro Moreira1985D/MFC Porto7Ricardo Barreiros1982FSL Benfica8Ricardo Oliveira1982FFC Porto9Luís Viana1976FBassano (ITA)10Ricardo Silva1983GKJuventude VianaCoachLuís Sénica
France
NNameBirthdatePositionClub1Nicolas Guillen1982GKSCRA St Omer2Rémi Lasnier1987US COUTRAS3Olivier Lesca1987SA Merignac4Henry Guirec1978SCRA St Omer5 Jérôme Moriceau1979La Roche-sur-Yon6Frédéric Hamon1977HC Quevert7Sébastian Landrin (C)1979HC Quevert8Nicolas Guilbert1985SCRA St Omer9Igor Tarassioux1977Vaulx en Velin10Olivier Gelebart1975GKHC QuevertCoachFabien Savreux
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