Ice Hockey
Francesco A. Armillotta
The goal of the Italian qualification in Sochi ... comes from Germany. Sledge hockey will bring certainty with their team in Sochi 2014. The Azzurri celebrate so the third consecutive participation at the Winter Paralympics even before they take the field in the fourth game, scheduled at 17 against Sweden. The joy comes from the German victory over Japan 3-2.
Friday 25 October 2013 5 minutes reading time
A result that precludes the possibility of achieving Asians the team coached by Massimo Da Rin, waiting to fall on the ice for the two final races of the tournament.
From now on, therefore, there is no need to make calculations. The qualification is in your pocket for the ice patrol. In March, the Games of the Russian city, there will be for sure the Italian representatives of four disciplines: the boys hockey will be added to the athletes of snowboarding, alpine and cross country skiing.
In the morning, the Palatazzoli of Turin, Germany already mathematically eliminated in the repechage Paralympic tournament, has honored the most of the competition by beating Japan, the only team capable of worry even Italy. A game always carried out by the Germans, who took the final 3-2 with just seven seconds remaining. Japan remains so firm a 3-point (with one game to be played) and can no longer reach the blues, still at the top of the list with 9 lengths.
Robert Pabst had a hand early Italians. The German defender to give joy to release his companions (the first victory in the tournament) and the blues for Sochi. Its network a few seconds from the end so removes all doubt and wait for further qualification. But the whole team led by Andreas Pokorny was not spared on the ice in Turin, closing already the second period ahead 2-1 and then resisting the Japanese desperate reaction (Hit with Takahashi -1:48 from the end, for the momentary 2-2). Response but it is not enough.
After the conclusion of the match, this was the comment of the Italian captain Andrea Chiarotti because, once the mathematical confirmation of the qualification: "We are very happy for the whole group is a great satisfaction. We were ready to play with Sweden to the pass, but we are still in spite of the victory of Germany. However, it was logical to expect that the other teams they ate some decisive point at each other. In this situation, the fact that he won the first three games has given us peace of mind and the ability to giovarne. So we had already done a great job before today. - Continues Chiarotti, who will play his third Paralympics - We have seen Germany and Japan together with the Swedes, since they too were affected by close to the result of the Japanese, but will have to wait unlike our own. " Our aim is to give the maximum in the rest of the tournament in Turin, promises Chiarotti "Now we are still missing two games to be played - with Sweden and Korea, ed - and we still want to give the home crowd of satisfaction and of course we will aim to win the tournament. And we will be sure to encounter the other two qualified in Sochi 2014 - South Korea has already mathematically won the pass - one of the two with certainty in the group Paralympics. "
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