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| Nickname(s) | La Squadra Azzurra (The Blue Team) | ||
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| Association | Federazione Italiana de Hockey i Pattinaggio | ||
| Confederation | World Skate Europe | ||
| Head coach | Massimo Mariotti [1] | ||
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Italy men's national roller hockey team is the national team side of Italy at international roller hockey.
| Competition |  |  |  | Total |
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| Olympic Games [2] | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| World Championship | 4 | 8 | 10 | 22 |
| European Championship | 3 | 11 | 20 | 33 |
| World Games | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mediterranean Games | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 9 | 19 | 32 | 60 |
Men's national Roller Hockey teams | ||
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| Unified | |
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| Women | |
| World |
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| Europe – WSE |
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| Asia – CARS |
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| America – CPRS |
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| Africa – FARS |
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| Oceania – OCRS |
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Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates. It can be played with traditional roller skates or with inline skates and use either a ball or puck. Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide.
Roller inline hockey, or inline hockey is a variant of hockey played on a hard, smooth surface, with players using inline skates to move and hockey sticks to shoot a hard, plastic puck into their opponent's goal to score points. The sport is a very fast-paced and free-flowing game and is considered a contact sport, but body checking is prohibited. There are five players including the goalkeeper from each team on the rink at a time, while teams normally consist of 16 players. There are professional leagues, one of which is the National Roller Hockey League (NRHL). While it is not a contact sport, there are exceptions, i.e. the NRHL involves fighting.
The World Skate Roller Hockey World Cup is the international championship for roller hockey organized by World Skate. The first event was held in 1936, in the city of Stuttgart. Since 1989, the World Championship tournament is held every two years on the odd years. Until 2017, it was organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports. As of 2019, following the merge between the FIRS and the International Skateboarding Federation, the World Cup is now an event of the larger World Roller Games.
Roller hockey, rink hockey or quad hockey is a team sport played on roller skates. It is the only quad skate team sport in existence where two teams face-off against one another at the same time. Two teams try to drive a hard ball with their sticks into the opposing teams' goalnet. Each team has five players on the rink at a time, four of whom are skaters and one who is the goalkeeper. The ball can only be put in motion by a stick, not the skate, otherwise a foul will be stated. The game has two 25-minute halves, with 15-minute halftime intermission, plus up to two 5-minute golden goal periods to settle ties with the clock stopping when the ball becomes dead. If the tie persists, a penalty shootout will determine the winner. Players – including the goalie – use quad skates, whereas inline skates are used in inline hockey. Excessive contact between players is forbidden in rink hockey, unlike inline hockey.
Roller hockey was one of three demonstration sports included in the official Olympic programme of the 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona. This sport's widespread popularity and the existence of top-level competitive teams in Catalonia prompted the Organizing Committee to suggest its inclusion in the Olympic programme.
The Portugal national roller hockey team is one of the most successful roller hockey teams of the world, along with Spain, Italy and Argentina.
The World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey, formerly known as Comité Européen de Rink-Hockey, is a technical committee within World Skate Europe responsible for the governing of rink hockey in Europe.
The main Italian clubs competition is the Serie A1. It contains 14 teams.
The USA Rink Hockey National Championship is the biggest Roller Hockey Clubs Championship in United States. In the U.S., the sport is largely owned by roller rink operators. The sport suffers stateside since players are mostly made up of operator's family members and a gaggle of childhood friends. Since the sport transitioned to the United States in the 1960s, teams and players competing in the United States have waned as roller rinks continue to close nationwide. Teams are often completed by tapping skaters from ice or inline hockey who are willing to give it a go and round out teams at U.S. nationals; many playing on inline skates. The sport is struggling in the U.S. due to the lack of public access to the sport found in other countries where the sport continues to grow. In contrast to other countries, the U.S. players and teams are managed and vetted by roller rink operators and their families. This practice explains the recurring players, teams, and regions who compete each year, and the loss of total number of teams since the 1960s and 1970s.
The 2012–13 CERH European League was the 48th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey competition organized by CERH, the 16th season since it was renamed from Champions League to European League. Sixteen teams from six national associations qualified to the competition as a result of their respective national league placing in the previous season. Following a group stage and a knockout round, the four best teams contested a final four tournament to decide the competition winners, which took place in the venue of one of the teams.
Italy women's national roller hockey team is the national team side of Italy at international roller hockey.
Italy men's national inline hockey team is the national team side of Italy at international inline hockey.
The European Roller Hockey Juvenile Championship is an annual roller hockey competition for the under-17 national teams of Europe organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey.
The 1950 Roller Hockey World Cup was the sixth roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes. It was contested by 10 national teams and it is also considered the 1950 European Roller Hockey Championship. All the games were played in the city of Milan, in Italy, the chosen city to host the World Cup. It was the first edition decided in a final game, which saw Portugal defeating Italy by 4–0.
The 1955 Roller Hockey World Cup was the eleventh roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes. It was contested by 14 national teams and it is also considered the 1955 European Roller Hockey Championship. Each group was played in a different Italian city, with the final-eight played in the city of Milan, in Italy.
The 1984 Roller Hockey World Cup was the twenty-sixth roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports and the first edition since the creation of a B division in national roller hockey. It was contested by 10 national teams. All the games were played in the city of Novara, in Italy, the chosen city to host the World Cup.
The 1993 Roller Hockey World Cup was the thirty-first roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports. It was contested by 12 national teams. The tournament was played in the cities of Bassano del Grappa and Sesto San Giovanni, in Italy. This edition marks the debut of Andorra national hockey team.
The 2014–15 CERS Cup was the 35th season of the CERS Cup, Europe's second club roller hockey competition organized by CERH. Thirty-two teams from eight national associations qualified for the competition as a result of their respective national league placing in the previous season.
World Skate is the only governing body in the world for all sports performed on skating wheels. The organisation is the successor of the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) founded on the 21 of April 1924.
The 2019 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup will be the 15th edition of the Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, organised by World Skate. The tournament will be held in Spain, in the city of Barcelona, as part of the 2019 World Roller Games.
