BOLA – Casa Pia will represent Portugal in the Indoor Hockey Euro (Sport)
The Casa Pia entourage that will compete in the EuroHockey Indoor Club Championships, a European competition of clubs in indoor field hockey – indoor hockey – in which the ‘geese’ will represent Portugal.
Shortly before continuing on his journey, Carlos Silva, one of the most experienced athletes in the Lisbon club and even in the national team of the sport, outlined the objectives for the competition for A BOLA.
«This will be the first time that Casa Pia will represent the country in this variant [hóquei de sala]. There was a change of rankings at European level, in terms of the general classification, two places below the previous one, which is a little strange but what happened… For this year it is a new competition for Casa Pia, but the ambitions are high. We know how teams we are going to play against, it has changed because we should be in groups, but due to Covid it will be two teams and therefore a system of passing and it will be a little more difficult», explained.
«As we are in two groups, the 1st marriage went to Group A below, the 2nd to Group B and they were raffled towards, but now we are going to put everything together, both we and the downtown team have a higher ranking and, that, a higher probability of reaching first and second place. Of course, it’s not certain, we have to play, but the reality is that at European level, for the European federation, we are very well rated in this tournament. The objective is to stay in the first two places», stipulated the hockey player, who wants to reach the highest possible level of national indoor hockey.