1. INTRODUCTION
Participants
1.1 Opening
The IFF President Mr. Tomas Eriksson greeted the participants welcome
to the first Presidents' meeting positively remarking the great number of
participants already at the first Presidents' meeting.
1.2 Presentations
All participants made a short presentation of themselves.
1.3 IFF today
Mr. Eriksson presented IFF of today; problems, organization, responsibilities,
international floorball development, members and coming event. When discussing
how often the Presidents' Meeting should be held the opinion of the meeting
was that the meeting generally should be held during the Womens' World Championships
and the Congress during the Mens' World Championships.
2. COMMITTEES
The committee chairmen presented their respective committee:
Arbitration Committee (AC)
Mr. Tomas Jonsson presented the members, the competence and duties of
AC and reported that a proposal of new sanction regulations is under preparation.
Rules- and Competition Committee (RACC)
Mr. Renato Orlando presented the members, the duties of RACC and the
upcoming work in prepairing proposals regarding Competition Regulations,
Transfer Regulations etc. for the CB to put forward to the next Congress.
Another important area for RACC is terminology.
Referee Committee (RC)
Mr. Werner Schlossmacher presented the members, the tasks for RC and
the way RC would like to have the communication when appointing referees
for internationals.
Public Relations Committee (PR)
Mr. Peter Lindström presented the members and the duties for PR,
clarifying the differences between PR and Information. Mr. Lindström
also reported on the progress in finding sponsors of IFF.
Material Committee (MC), Education and Development Committee (EDC) and
Information Committee (IC) are treated under separate points.
3. CHAMPIONSHIPS
3.1 Juniors and age groups
The question regarding Championships and age groups for Juniors was discussed.
When checking with each federation participating the result was:
Latvia 46 Youth and Junior Teams. Ready for U19.
Estonia No Youth or Junior Teams yet. Will start 1998. U19 is OK but
not yet ready.
Austria No Youth or Junior Teams yet, but played in schools.
Finland Have Youth and Junior Teams. Thinks that year 2000 could be a
starting year for Junior Men World Championships and a year later the Junior
Women.
Czech Republic Will start Junior league 1997. U19 is OK and will take
part when a Championship is started.
Russia 5000 Youth players (1981 and younger). Ready to take part. Would
like to have a younger age group than U19.
Japan Have no age segregation yet.
Germany Have no Juniors Championship yet. School teams exists. Could
be ready to take part 1999/2000.
Switzerland Are ready to take part with U19 Men. Have a selection team
for Women U19.
Sweden Are ready to take part with U19 Men.
Norway 30 Junior Teams (1000 players). Will be ready for Junior Men 2000
and Junior Women 2-3 years later.
3.2 Organizers
The question regarding organizing a Championship was discussed.
When checking with each federation participating the result was:
Latvia Ready to organize earliest 2010.
Estonia Ready to organize earliest 2010.
Austria Ready to organize earliest 2001/2002.
Finland Ready to organize whenever.
3.2 Organizers - continuation
Czech Republic Will organize 1998. Suggests that Junior Men should be
played the same year as the Women and Junior Women the same yera as men.
Russia Ready to organize.
Japan Ready to organize earliest 2000.
Germany Maybe ready to organize 2000. Are discussing Junior Men.
Switzerland Ready to organize European Cup 1999 and a Championship 2000,
but thinks that it would be better to have Germany as organizer 2000.
Sweden Has applied for Womens' Championships 1999. Are ready for Men
2002 or 2004.
Norway Has applied for Mens' Championships 2000.
3.3 Mens' World Championships 1998 (WFC 98)
Mr. Martin Vaculik presented WFC 98 and greeted all warmly welcome to
Czech Republic and the Championships 23-30.05.98.
A question regarding why the Championships will be held this late was
answered by Mr. Vaculik with that they wanted to avoid other big arrangements.
4. MATERIAL
Mr. John Liljelund presented the members and the tasks for MC. He reported
that the discussions regarding testing methods now is based on product certification
instead of company certification. Mr. Liljelund asked for more input from
the member federations and emphasized the importance of having a decision
on the next congress. The independence of IFF is strongly dependent on a
working testing system lead by IFF.
5. EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Mr. Per Jansson presented the members and the tasks for EDC and reported
from the latest meeting 08.05 and the progress according to the "division"
of nations within the EDC.
For the time being EDC is dependent on the three founders of IFF, Finland,
Sweden and Switzerland, and their support in the EDC area.
Mr. Risto Kauppinen took the opportunity to report on the plans of the
Finnish Floorball Federation regarding Russia and the Baltic Nations.
6. COOPERATION AND INFORMATION BETWEEN NATIONS
Mr. Pekka Mukkala presented the members and duties of IC and reported
that the committee mostly will inform via the IFF home page IFF net - which
is moving to the address http://www.floorball.org. Mr. Mukkala asked for
input regarding when to play Internationals, results etc.
When checking with each federation participating on Home page on Internet
the result was that Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Japan, Germany, Switzerland
and Sweden have a Home page and that Norway will start one in August.
In the future IC plans for an IFF magazine but for the time being it
is considered to expensive.
7. WORK ON NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES' AND THE IOC
Mr. Tomas Eriksson spoke about the necessity of each member federation
influencing possible contacts in their National Olympic Committe (NOC) and
the IOC.
When checking with each federation participating on contacts the result
was:
Latvia Good contacts with NOC.
Estonia No contacts yet. Needs to grow internally first.
Austria No contacts yet. Aims to become members of the Sports Confederation
first.
Finland Good contacts with IOC members. Good possibilities to influence.
Czech Republic Good contacts with NOC.
Russia Have contacts but no support. NOC is interested but not willing
to contribute.
Japan Have taken contact, but needs to grow internally first.
Germany No contacts yet. Aims to become members of the Sports Confederation
first. (Field) Hockey Association is strong which creates some problems.
Switzerland There is only one over-head organization in Switzerland,
Swiss Olympic Federation, of which SUHV are members, which means that their
contact is natural.
Sweden Have been in contact with IOC representatives regarding both Olympic
recognition and the possibilities for floorball if Stockholm is given the
Olympics 2004.
Norway Are, via the Bandyfederation, members of NOC. Will work on their
IOC members.
7. WORK ON NOC AND THE IOC - continuation
When discussing the possibilities for IFF to reach Olympic recognition
the participants unanimously agreed upon that the aim for IFF is to reach
Olympic recognition and that if Stockholm is given the Olympics 2004 the
aim for IFF is to demonstrate floorball there.
8. CLOSING OF THE MEETING
Mr. Tomas Eriksson thanked the participants for a good work during the
meeting wishing all good luck with the upcoming work and awarded each and
everyone with the memory medal of the Womens' World Championships 1997.
Thereafter the meeting was declared closed.
PRESIDENTS' MEETING 08-09.05.97
Participants (*= Double functions)
Member federations
Austria Mr. Werner Daves 08.05 President
Mr. Thomas Weinrich 09.05 V.President
Czech Republic Mr. Martin Vaculik President*
Estonia Mr. Ain Lillepalu President*
Finland Mr. Risto Kauppinen President*
Germany Mr. Stefan Rouwen President
Japan Mr. Sadao Saito President
Ms. Atuko Nakayama Chairman
Mr. Watanabe Interpreter
Latvia Mr. Janis Kivkulis Secretary general
Ms. Esperanza Higuera Int.contacts
Norway Ms. Tone Damsleth Chairman Floorball Section
Mr. Kjell Hovland Olsen President NBF
Russia Mr. Mikhail Ragoulin V.President
Mr. Serguei Penin Interpreter
Sweden Mr. Per Jansson Secretary of the Board*
Switzerland Mr. Max Sterchi President
Mr. Renato Orlando Secretary general*
IFF Central Board and Committee chairmen etc.
CB Mr. Tomas Eriksson President
CB & IC Chairman Mr. Pekka Mukkala 09.05 Vice President
CB & PR Chairman Mr. Peter Lindström Secretary of the
Board
CB & MC Chairman Mr. John Liljelund 08.05 Treasurer
CB & EDC Chairman Mr. Per Jansson Member of the Board*
CB & AC Chairman Mr. Tomas Jonsson Member of the Board
CB Mr. Ain Lillepalu Member of the Board*
CB Mr. Risto Kauppinen Member of the Board*
CB Mr. Martin Vaculik Member of the Board*
RACC Mr. Renato Orlando Chairman*
RC Mr. Werner Schlossmacher 08.05 Chairman
IFF Office Mr. Stefan Kratz Secretary general |