2007 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge

The 2007 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge was the fourth edition of the bi-annual Champions Challenge. It took place in Boom, Belgium from June 23 to July 1, 2007.

Participating nations were Argentina, hosting nation Belgium, England, India, Japan, and New Zealand. Argentina, Belgium and England were coming to Boom for their third Champions Challenge appearances, while India, Japan and New Zealand participated in this competition for the second time. Argentina earned a spot at the 2008 Champions Trophy in Rotterdam, Netherlands after having defeated New Zealand in the final.

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Team Squads

fh|Argentina

#Juan Manuel Vivaldi (gk)
#Juan Gilardi
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Mariano Chao (gk)
#Mario Almada
#Lucas Rey
#Rodrigo Vila
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Lucas Cammareri
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Lucas Vila
#Jorge Lombi
#Fernando Zylberberg
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Juan Garreta
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Tomás Argento
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Matias Rey
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Lucas Argento
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Pedro Ibarra
#Lucas Rossi
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Agustin Corradini
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Ignacio Bergner
;Head Coach: flagathlete|Sergio Vigil|ARG

fh|Belgium

#Cédric Degreve (gk)
#Xavier Reckinger
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Jérôme Dekeyser
#Loïc Vandeweghe
#John-John Dohmen
#Thomas Van Den Balck
#Maxime Luycx
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Charles Vandeweghe
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Phillippe Goldberg
#Gregory Gucasoff
#Fabrice Bourdeaud'hui
#Thomas Briels
#Patrice Houssein
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David van Rysselberghe (gk)
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Simon Gougnard
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Benjamin van Hove
#Amaury De Cock
#Jérôme Truyens
;Head Coach: flagathlete|Giles Bonnet|RSA

fh|ENG

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Nick Brothers (gk)
#Glenn Kirkham
#Richard Alexander
#Richard Mantell
#Ashley Jackson
#Simon Mantell
#Martin Jones
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Matt Daly
#Brett Garrard
#Jonty Clarke
#Rob Moore
#Ben Hawes
#Scott Cordon
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Barry Middleton
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James Tindall
#Jon Bleby
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Ben Marsden
#James Fair (gk)
;Head Coach: flagathlete|Jason Lee|ENG

fh|IND

#Adrian d'Souza (gk)
#Dilip Tirkey
#Sandeep Singh
#Shivendra Singh
#Rajpal Singh
#Prabodh Tirkey
#Bimal Lakra
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Damandeep Singh
#William Xalxo
#Sunil Yadav
#Sardar Singh
#Prabjoth Singh
#Gurbaj Singh
#Bharat Chikkara
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Tushar Khandker
#Baljit Singh (gk)
#Roshan Minz
#Vickram Kanth
;Head Coach: flagathlete|Joaquim Carvalho|IND

fh|JPN

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Shunsuke Nagaoka (gk)
#Kazuo Yoshida
#Mitsuru Ito
#Yutaka Bito
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Kei Kawakami
#Kenichi Katayama
#Kazuyuki Ozawa
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Kazuhiro Tsubouchi
#Hiroto Noda
#Takahiko Yamabori
#Ryuji Furusato
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Akira Ito
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Yuji Chaki
#Keiji Maeda
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Takayasu Mizawa
#Katsuyoshi Nagasawa
#Yoshihiro Anai
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Katsuya Takase (gk)
;Head Coach: flagathlete|Akira Takahashi|JPN

fh|NZL

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David Kosoof
#Nicholas Haig
#Andrew Hayward
#Simon Child
#Blair Hopping
#Dean Couzins
#Casey Henwood
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Ryan Archibald
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Bradley Shaw
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Bevan Hari
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Paul Woolford (gk)
#Kyle Pontifex (gk)
#Phillip Burrows
#Hayden Shaw
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Bryce Collins
#Lloyd Stephenson
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Benjamin Collier
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Steven Edwards
;Head Coach: flagathlete|Shane McLeod|NZL

Round Robin

Results

All times local (UTC+1)hockeybox
date = June 23, 2007 13:45
team1 = fh-rt|IND
team2 = fh|NZL
score = 0 – 2
goals1 =
goals2 = 63' Hayden Shaw (pc)
69' David Kosoof
umpires = Deon Nel (RSA)
Kim Hong-Lae (KOR)
hockeybox
date = June 23, 2007 16:00
team1 = fh-rt|BEL
team2 = fh|JPN
score = 1 – 2
goals1 = Charles Vandeweghe 12'
goals2 = 16' Ryuji Futusato
58' Takahiko Yamabori (pc)
umpires = Raghu Prasad (IND)
James Pilgrim (ENG)
hockeybox
date = June 23, 2007 18:30
team1 = fh-rt|ENG
team2 = fh|ARG
score = 3 – 4
goals1 = Richard Alexander 13'
Simon Mantell 52' (ps)
Ben Hawes 58' (pc)
goals2 = 18' Jorge Lombi (pc)
40' Jorge Lombi
45' Lucas Rey (pc)
51' Rodrigo Vila
umpires = Simon Taylor (NZL)
Gregory Uyttenhove (BEL)----
hockeybox
date = June 24, 2007 14:00
team1 = fh-rt|NZL
team2 = fh|JPN
score = 4 – 0
goals1 = Hayden Shaw 31' (pc)
Ryan Archibald 33'
Hayden Shaw 38' (pc)
Phillip Burrows 49' (pc)
goals2 =
umpires = Raghu Prasad (IND)
Gregory Uyttenhove (BEL)
hockeybox
date = June 24, 2007 16:15
team1 = fh-rt|ARG
team2 = fh|BEL
score = 2 – 3
goals1 = Juan Gilardi 40' (pc)
Jorge Lombi 68' (pc)
goals2 = 6' Gregory Gucasoff (pc)
32' Gregory Gucasoff (pc)
54' Thomas Briels
umpires = Deon Nel (RSA)
Eduardo Lizana (ESP)
hockeybox
date = June 24, 2007 18:45
team1 = fh-rt|IND
team2 = fh|ENG
score = 3 – 2
goals1 = Rajpal Singh 28'
Dilip Tirkey 41' (pc)
Prabjoth Singh 54'
goals2 = 33' Richard Mantell (pc)
48' Jonty Clarke (pc)
umpires = Chen Dekang (CHN)
Kim Hong-Lae (KOR)----
hockeybox
date = June 26, 2007 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|JPN
team2 = fh|ARG
score = 0 – 2
goals1 =
goals2 = 10' Pedro Ibarra (pc)
15' Rodrigo Vila (pc)
umpires = Chen Dekang (CHN)
Eduardo Lizana (ESP)
hockeybox
date = June 26, 2007 16:45
team1 = fh-rt|ENG
team2 = fh|NZL
score = 1 – 3
goals1 = Rob Moore 43' (pc)
goals2 = 10' Hayden Shaw (pc)
48' Hayden Shaw (pc)
62' Dean Couzins (ps)
umpires = Deon Nel (RSA)
Raghu Prasad (IND)
hockeybox
date = June 26, 2007 19:00
team1 = fh-rt|BEL
team2 = fh|IND
score = 1 – 4
goals1 = Gregory Gucasoff 26' (pc)
goals2 = 13' Sandeep Singh (pc)
18' Prabjoth Singh
31' Shivendra Singh
68' Dilip Tirkey (pc)
umpires = Simon Taylor (NZL)
James Pilgrim (ENG) ----
hockeybox
date = June 28, 2007 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|ENG
team2 = fh|JPN
score = 4 – 3
goals1 = Richard Mantell 29' (pc)
Richard Alexander 50' (pc)
Jonty Clarke 61'
Rob Moore 66'
goals2 = 10' Takahiko Yamabori (pc)
59' Yoshihiro Anai (pc)
70' Takahiko Yamabori (pc)
umpires = Simon Taylor (NZL)
Gregory Uyttenhove (BEL)
hockeybox
date = June 28, 2007 16:45
team1 = fh-rt|ARG
team2 = fh|IND
score = 2 – 1
goals1 = Jorge Lombi 39' (pc)
Mario Almada 60'
goals2 = 64' Sandeep Singh (ps)
umpires = Chen Dekang (CHN)
James Pilgrim (ENG)
hockeybox
date = June 28, 2007 19:00
team1 = fh-rt|NZL
team2 = fh|BEL
score = 3 – 3
goals1 = Simon Child 14'
Dean Couzins 19' (ps)
Simon Child 27'
goals2 = 8' Thomas Briels
17' Xavier Reckinger
38' Charles Vandeweghe
umpires = Eduardo Lizana (ESP)
Kim Hong-Lae (KOR) ----
hockeybox
date = June 30, 2007 11:30
team1 = fh-rt|NZL
team2 = fh|ARG
score = 3 – 3
goals1 = Phillip Burrows 15' (pc)
Hayden Shaw 46 (pc)
Hayden Shaw 70' (pc)
goals2 = 16' Lucas Vila
27' Juan Garreta
69' Lucas Vila (pc)
umpires = Chen Dekang (CHN)
Kim Hong-Lae (KOR)
hockeybox
date = June 30, 2007 13:45
team1 = fh-rt|IND
team2 = fh|JPN
score = 4 – 3
goals1 = Sandeep Singh 7' (pc)
Prabjoth Singh 22' (pc)
Prabjoth Singh 34'
Dilip Tirkey 48' (pc)
goals2 = 11' Kenichi Katayama
47' Takahiko Yamabori
65' Kazuhiro Tsubouchi
umpires = James Pilgrim (ENG)
Gregory Uyttenhove (BEL)
hockeybox
date = June 30, 2007 16:00
team1 = fh-rt|BEL
team2 = fh|ENG
score = 2 – 6
goals1 = Jérôme Dekeyser 47' (pc)
Gregory Gucasoff 60' (pc)
goals2 = 26' Martin Jones
28' Matt Daly
53' Simon Mantell
58' Matt Daly
65' Jonty Clarke
70' Simon Mantell
umpires = Deon Nel (RSA)
Raghu Prasad (IND) ----

tandings

References

* [http://www.bdochampionschallenge2007.sportcentric.com/ Official page]