Sometimes there are moments in life of all of us, which we feel that at last we understood.Understand why we do what we do, why we chose it, why are we so enjoy the same thing.
Are exactly the feelings that flooded the Academy Hockey Team players skates after seeing for the first time, a facility world-class hockey skates, amazing players, a team of 20 volunteer club supports a full, gorgeous facility, hostel (Villa amazing) that can host 3 teams at the same time, room food management, 60-inch plasma for players connected to PlayStation, 11 dressing rooms showers, meals are perfect and much much more .....
Travel + tournament training camp in Germany, was a milestone in the Academy, players, coaches, parents and hockey in general. It was an extraordinary experience for us all.Something we take for life. Ties we have created there, players with players, coaches with coaches, mayors, presidents of clubs - our amazing industrywe sure that will forward Israel in the coming years. Agenda of the players was very busy: breakfast, morning practice, hockey games, more training, food, and hockey games. Our players did a great step forward, under the guidance of Dutch coach, and amazing - Tony.
As promised, the Netherlands U17 goalkeeper came to work with our porters (and they worked hard) ! The sence around this wonderful club, couse our players have made open-mouthed most of the time. They did not believe such a thing could be, the life of people and children revolve around hockey, around the club, around the values of sports excellence.
The behavior of our players was Commendable and professionalism. Tony said on the last day of remarkable discipline in our players, telling us that he told his players (some of the Dutch national team!) They need to learn and take example of the Israeli players. This Certificate of Excellence of our great players. Professionally, each player and player received personal attention, work on what he needs to improve, and we saw tremendous progress in every player, every game. Although the tournament was a training camp + clubs and teams, the organizers insisted to honor players and made the state anthem along with displaying the flags of the countries hosted.... What a gentlemen!!!
Physical pressure, speed, great differences in their training provided to our front, led everyone to get the best from himself. The players did everything they could, and beyond, and played exceptional, personally kept all the game, sometimes 2 consecutive games! Joint training caused players to connect with players from other countries, and created lifelong friendships. Everything was perfectly organized, the hospitality was perfect, and we (coaches) we have also to train and play 3 games at the German league's all that difficult. It was amazing!
Graduation party was the signal to start celebrating release from the pressure for 4 days.Everyone danced with everyone, including club president - a wonderful personality all built from scratch and made a dream into reality. Everything was shot stills + video.See and believe. Club hockey skates glory, a place to learn from it so much. We have so many things on the agenda after this trip...
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