On Easter Sunday a Finnish girl from university asked me to join a floorball game. The game took place in the leaf arena which is about ten minutes away by car from the city center.
Floorball is becoming a more and more popular sport in Finland. The game I was watching on Sunday was a semifinal of the b-juniors in Turku. Most of Henna's family members are involved in playing floorball that means that one of her two brothers is part of the b-juniors, the other brother is playing in the men's team and she herself is also joining a women's team playing floorball.
Henna started to play again this year because she was not able to play while she stayed in Germany. So she had to start with a new team again this year with whom she won this season and will move up to a higher league next season.
Henna told me that there a three different leagues; the B-league where the players are between the age of 16 and 18, the A-league where they are between 19 and 21 and the ones above who are in the men's league.
Normally there are always 3 games and the team that wins at least two of the games gets to the next round and has to play against another team.
I was highly astonished how fast and intense the game went. In the beginning, I was wondering why there were so many players in each team if there are only five players of each team on the field each time but I soon realised that it would be impossible to keep on playing for 20 minutes. That's the reason why they change the players every minute and why the game happens to be so fast.
The game was highly exciting and Henna's brother played really well. The first two games there team was dominating the game but sadly it changed in the third and the lost with 5 to 6 against the team of Helsinki. They then had to travel to Helsinki for the last game on Monday and play against them again.
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