The youth in irish hockey:
hockey today has expanded massively throughout the world. Ireland alone would have three teams from boys and girls to represent them against other counties. These teams would also be a wide variety of people throughout Ireland, coming from Munster, Leinster, Connacht and Ulster. The youngest squad available would be under 16s. The development would start by scouting from schools all over Ireland, especially the well know hockey schools. Only taking the best of what they see and holding intense trials and fitness which would go on for months until they reach to a team with the number of people they need. On a year to year basis Ireland would have and u16s team and an u18s team and every now and again they would have an u21s team depending on the talent or the funding for the year.


When Ireland have selected and developed their team they start off with the Scotland series tournament and they play Scotland for three days in a row. testing their ability and making sure they have made the right choice. They develop then on helping it grow and become stronger and become a proper team. Each year everyone would have to retry for the team and see if you make it again because each year the standard can get better or worse.

The worlds best hockey team


Australia's men's hockey team at this moment in time is ranked as the worlds best hockey team in the world. Not trailing far behind Australia would be the Netherlands and Germany. The Australia men's hockey team is also nicknamed the kookaburras. They are the only team in any Australian sport to receive six summer Olympic medals dating from 1991 to 2012. Australia have placed in the top four hockey teams in the world since 1980. They also won the hockey world cup in 1986, 2010 and in 2014. Australia are one of the first national teams to hold four world titles simultaneously.


Its a different story for the women's though, at this moment in time the Australian women's team is ranked third in the world trailing just behind Netherlands and Argentina. The women's team are nicknamed the hockeyroo's and they have won hockey team of the year award 5 times in a row. They are still among one of Australia's most successful sporting teams.

Irish hockey today

After a 107 year wait Ireland finally qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. They will be the first Irish hockey team to compete in the Olympics level since 1908. They will also be the first team of any sport to compete at an Olympic level since 1948. In August they made history by winning a bronze medal at the eurohockey championships, which gave them a firm spot amongst the best European and world hockey. Ireland will join many other countries who qualified for the Olympics. Such as Brazil, India, Germany, Canada, Spain, Belgium and great Britain. Ireland will be playing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio from the 5th of August to the 21st.


Although Ireland may not have qualified for the Olympics hockey wise is a few years we have had other side achievements. In 1978 and 1990 we came 12th place in the world cup. In the eurohockey nations championship in 2007 we came 7th place, In 2011 we came 5th place, In 2013 we came 6th place and in 2015 we got a bronze by coming third place. In the eurohockey nations trophy we came first in 2005 and 2009.



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The world of hockey starting from the bottom:




There is no particular date that we can track field hockey back to but there is games similar to the sport which may have contributed to hockey being created. These games wouldn't be directly to hockey but they have similar quality's such as the stick and ball concept. some examples of early hockey relations would be the Irish game of hurling and a game quite similar to that which originated from Scotland called Shinty.




modern day hockey dates back to have begun in the 19th century in public British schools. As time went on the game was getting more and more developed as the years went by. Teddington hockey club was a major contributor to the developing of hockey. Finally in 1886 hockey was starting to be seen as a real sport and a hockey association  was formed by seven London clubs and included representatives from trinity college and Cambridge university. The founding members were Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland.


women and men are different although hockey was developing by year, it still wasn't seen acceptable for women to play a men's game. Its only been it the last 100 to 200 years that hockey has become more of a women's game then a men's game. Today hockey would be known all over the world and is even played in the Olympics from teams all over the world and played by men and woman. 


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introduction:
hi guys, my name Carla. I am  going bring you on an absolute rollercoaster of the world of hockey. I am going to adventure some of the greatest hockey teams in the world and the history of hockey and some of the worlds rankings. I am also going to throw it back and go right back to how hockey started and where it began and how and what it was like at first in Ireland and other countries. I don't just hope to learn something I hope you guys learn something too. hope you guy enjoy :).