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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
Team Adjustments - By Rasmus Bonde Stouby
See pictures from Detroit here
So far Team Denmark consists of 20 players, and 14 of those hold a Danish passport. Out of the six guys without them, two are Americans. Eric Jorgensen from outside Washington DC, who went to Mount Saint Mary's College in Maryland, and Alex Gorman from Philladelphia. Gorman went to Guilford College in North Carolina.
The rest are Canadians. Dane Hansen, 17, attack and middie from Holy Cross Secondary School in Ontario is the latest edition to the team. Holy Cross went 19-0 last year and lost the final this year in the Ontario provincial championship. Dave was brought on to the team by our attackman Dan Larsen, 33, from Toronto. Then, ofcourse, there are the two Canadians who live and work in Denmark; defenseman Dave Toeg, 27 and attackman Dan Christensen, 35.
We were supposed to have an English middie on the team as well, but he bailed on us a couple of days ago. Also, we lost our American college player, Tony Vita from Princeton University.
In the van on the way back from morning practice today, goalie Kristian Schweitzer, aka Tiny (an American with a Danish passport), told Coach Cone that his kid brother plays lacrosse in high school and also holds a Danish passport.
"Great, we've got four open slots!" Cone replied and handed his cell phone to Tiny, who immidiatly called up his family. If all goes well, we will have another player with us on Saturday.
"Anybody else know anyone with a Danish passport?" Cone asked everyone in the car. We didn't.
On a side note, if you have a Danish passport and can handle a stick fairly well, go to London and find us! We don't have to turn in the final roster before the 13th.
Health is deteriorating rapidly, especially with those over 27 years. The team physisian, Chris Curry, already has a steady clientele only two days into warm-ups. He is taping up everything strained in sight before each training session.
Other than the two three hours practices, today offered more bonding. Whirlyball is an interesting mutation of lacrosse with a big future. You drive around in a bumper car, holding a tiny plastic head with a handle and attempt to pass a big red plastic ball and score by throwing it through a hole in a basketball backboard. They also had Pac-Man. My team lost the Whirlyball mini-tournament, but at least I now hold the high-score in Pac-Man with 40,600 points.
Tomorrow will be an exciting day. We rise and moan at 6 am, ready to practice at 6:30am. Afternoon practice is off because of our first scrimmage game against a local all-star team. From what we hear, they are psyched to be playing the Danish
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