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28.03.03 - Belgium: Nordzee hits Gent
The new Champion in Belgium is Nordzee. The won the men's competition in front of Gent and Waasland.
The 03 ranking for Belgium

28.03.03 - Germany: Dortmund Deusen win the ladies
The new Champion at the ladies competition in Germany is Dortmund-Deusen.

28.03.03 - Germany: Landshut hits Munich£
The new champion in Germany is again Landshut. They hit in a very attractive final Munich in the overtime with a golden goal.


20.01.03 - Youth meets at Zollikofen
The biggest event for young  blind sportsmen will take place at Zollikofen this year in may. Read all about the inscription and announce yourselves here.

06.01.03 - Worldranking list
Landshut took over leadership on world ranking list. they are followed up by Bolzano and Gloria Berne.
Who will be qualified for the Master tournement dated may 31st? Keep on reading goalball.org

12.11.02 - Euro 03: Find application form on goalball.org
The site of euro03 is online. Find there first the application form  We will stay in touch with them for you. Keep on the track with goalball.org.

06.11.02 - Pro Torball World Masters
The official team World championship will take place at Zurich on may 31st next year. Now, they have built up an online information. How to participate at that important event, pls read the general information.

31.10.02 - Worldranking list: BSSG Bozen leads now
TheBSSG Bozen /Italy takes over the leadership of the latest ranking list. With the win of the Bodensee Meisterschaft at Amriswil they have won enough points to become new leader.
The latest ranking

21.10.02 - Worldmasters at Zürich Torball Stadium
The Pro Torball Worldmaster tournement will take place at Zürich  Torball Stadium on May 31st, 2003. The tournement is open for all qualified teams of the official Pro Torball Worldrankinglist. All informaion about it you will find on this side.

11.10.02 - Balls: they are available
The balls for goalball are now available. Siegenthaler, representative of the producer "we have full stocks now. You can order as much as you want. We have also solved the troubles with the loss of airpressure." For orders, contact your supplier nuw.

25.09.02 - integration in IAS
The international academy of sport (for disabled) IAS will integrate ballsport in their calendar for disabled. IAS is a well known american academy in teaching sport staf that is expanding their offers into sport for disabled. Check their offers for disabled on www.goalball.net. They will start on octobre 1st, 2002.

23.09.02 - Torball: The soul lies within the width.
Again and again goalball.org is confronted with the question, What is so special about Torball? Perhaps from time to time you have been asked this question too? Torball.org points out in and explains why this sport is so special. These information is intended for the readers that are not yet acquainted with Torball. With in Torball means the impressive size and density in the number of teams. Particularly in Europe and South America torball is intensively played at a team level. An expression of this density are shown in the numerous national and international friendship tournaments that are held, in which between 4 and 14 teams from near and far participate. Exactly these numerous tournaments are important for the sport and form an opportunity for all age and strength classes.The building up and development of these tournaments is in the best interests of Torball. Everyone can contribute to the broadening of our sport.

In the appointment calendar you can find a large number of these tournaments; visit these, also as spectators or accompany you friends and acquaintances to tournaments, in order to show the sport in action.

17.09.02 hello
Hi there. I am G. Logen and I am your new webmaster. My job is, to reorganize goalball.org and to publish your information. Please help me doing that job by sending me news, topics, results and what ever you want to webmaster@goalball.org. I usually work at nights or weekends on that side, don't worry about my not ansering within hours.....
Hope you are pleased about my job. G. Logen

13.09.02 - European Championship 2003
The organizing committee for the next european Championship Torball in Russia are working on the file to present it to the ibsa-inspectors very soon. They are sure to get the o.k. by the ibsa within the next weeks and than they will be able to inform the national organisations.  the championships will be hold during the first week in august 2003.
For more information - keep on goalball.org


28.08.02 - Europe: Start of automn sessions
There will take place the start of a lot of tournements with very long tradition in Torball next week end. The organizers have a lot of experiance and know-how.
Keep torball.org informed by sending news, results, general information to webmaster@torball.org. Your message will be transfered towards a news and it will be published......

14.08.02 - Athens: Torball soon a paralympic sport?
Well informed circles of an international blind organization report that at present various efforts are under way, to play at the Paralympic Games where in the future women teams will play "Torball" instead of "Goalball". The purpose of this measure is to prevent the threatening exclusion of this blind-specific type of sport from the paralympic program.
So far the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has stated many times; "Only with a highly attractive kind of sport will the blind movement succeed in this very complex (expensive) discipline. Just one playing field of 8 teams requires places for about 80 athletes and officiating persons." The efforts of the IPC, which is trying to tighten the program of the games and which are trying to strongly limit the number of participants is generally well-known.

22.07.02 - news intern
This days, you powered torball.org to a new bestnote.  More than 50 visitors join torball.org daily. the most popular side is torball-news.

22.07.02 - Worldcup 2002
The 3rd world Cup Torball is over. you can find all results and information about that event on www.torbal.be. The winner are: Landshut (men) and Vorarlberg (ladies).

07.06.02 - Switzerland: 16 Teams at the biggest Junior Event for the Blind
At the seventh international Junior-Torball tournament at Zollikofen (CH) dated June 22nd, 2002, there will be 16 teams participating from Europe. Also at this largest Junior Event for the Blind, there will be teams from Bellarussia, Moldavia, Slowakia, Hungary, and others taking part. There will be more Information about this ‘High Light’ published right here in the next few weeks.

23.05.02 - Mol: Exciting anniversary tournament!
The anniversary tournament of Mol (25 years of ViGe Mol) was extensively celebrated with a women and a men Torball tournament. Torball.org wishes ViGe Mol and its members the very best and for the future further success in the sport of Torball. The tournament was won by the men from Poitiers by Bozen and the women team, the host ViGe Mol won, with Dortmund Deusen following.


08.05.02 -Malta: Active despite borders.
The small island of Malta in the Mediterranean is in this country well-known as a holiday paradise. From time to time we hear of Europa cup football games on sandy fields. On Malta, in addition, Torball is also played; The team from Malta trains regularly, games played against their own teams are on the daily agenda. Unfortunately the distance to the neighboring countries by sea is difficult to overcome, so that the exchange of team play on an international level is lagging behind... " We are however proud to have played Torball for years. We have a good infrastructure and have motivated players" as stated by the president of Malta Torball association. Isn't the sunny island of Malta a home for your next trainings camp?


30.04.02 - Worldranking: Amriswil leads
The first official ranking for worldwide torball teams is online. Get your information here on torball.org.

10.04.02 Developements
Torball makes at the moment good progress all over the world. Especially in Africa and Soutzern America. But there are also a lot of information about interesting projects around Europe.
In moscow, Russia, people intend to establish an important championship for european teams in 2003. With that championship, they want to involve teams from the countries between Russia and Western Europe.

08.03.02 - Market place
Whatever you have to sell, you want to buy or just have to offer - the market place is the right place to make your business. Use it for free.


25.02.02 - Worldcup at Brugge /Belgium
Important information and some "nice to knwo" you will find on www.torbal.be. At the moment in netherlands, but soon in englisch.

21.02.02 - Pro Torall World ranking list
There is created a new, very interesting ranking for all teams. It starts at the 1st of march. Inform yourself and sign up now:
introduction
general conditions
sign up now