Somalia national bandy team

All selected players, except an ice hockey player living in Canada, are Somali nationals who live in the Swedish town of Borlänge and play for the local club Borlänge BandyShearlaw, Maeve [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/04/the-cool-runnings-of-the-refugee-crisis-somalias-bandy-team-at-home-on-ice The Cool Runnings of the refugee crisis: Somalia's bandy team at home on ice] Guardian. 6 January 2016. (Borlänge-Stora Tuna BK, later renamed Peace & Love City). The team is coached by former Swedish international Per Fosshaug. Somalia national bandy team is financed by the municipality of Borlänge and Somali Olympic Committee. The project was launched in May 2013 and the team planned already by then to participate in at least two World Championship tournaments. This has been reported in media from around the world.{{cite web|url= http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-winter-sports-bandy-somalia-idUKBRE9BI02Q20131219 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160305143436/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-winter-sports-bandy-somalia-idUKBRE9BI02Q20131219 |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 5, 2016 |title= Somali bandy team get their skates on |publisher= Reuters |date= 19 December 2013 | language = |accessdate= 6 January 2014}}{{cite web|url= https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323854904578636132489502020 |title= From Somalia via Sweden, With Skates |publisher= The Wall Street Journal |date= 4 September 2013 | language = |accessdate= 6 January 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pgQpX_gC3A|title=Bandy-ing about on the rinks of Sweden|publisher=Cannel 4 News, Youtube channel|accessdate=13 April 2014}}

In the 2014 Bandy World Championship, the Somalia squad played in the Group D of Division B with Germany, Japan, Mongolia, and Ukraine. The tournament was played between 26 January and 2 February.[http://www.baikal-bandy.ru/?lang=en 2014 Bandy World Championships] Retrieved 6 January 2014. In the first game, they lost to Germany 1–22, and consequently scored their first WCS goal.[http://vk.com/baikalbandy?z=video24424281_167299299%2F273955b74edf74ce68 Video with the first goal] They subsequently lost all other games, scoring one more goal against Mongolia, and then one more in play-offs against Ukraine.

In 2016 and 2017, Somalia also played friendlies against an unofficial Afghanistan national bandy team. The Afghan team is created by Afghan expatriates in Karlstad, Sweden, but is not sanctioned by the sports governing bodies in Afghanistan, so it is not allowed to take part in the World Championship.[http://www.somaliabandy.com/vinst-mot-afghanistan/ somaliabandy.com: "Vinst mot Afghanistan", januari 24, 2017] (in Swedish), read July 10, 2017

Somali squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140202153216/http://94.250.252.136/upload/news/B09_Jap_-Som_.pdf Japan–Somalia Match Report] Federation of International Bandy. Retrieved 29 January 2014.{{cite web|url= http://www.goolfm.net/wararka/xulka-soomaaliya-oo-ka-qeyb-galaya-tartanka-ciyaaraha-koobka-adduunka-daawo-sawirro/ |title= Xulka Soomaaliya oo ka geyb Tartanka ciyaaraha koobka Adduunka |publisher= Gool FM |date= 26 January 2014 | language = Somali|accessdate= 29 January 2014}}

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qai03IcFsfM China - Somalia game of 3 Feb 2015 at Youtube] from the 2015 Bandy World Championship (the game starts about 5:10 in)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sKEovpQHCg Somalia - the Netherlands game of 1 Feb 2015 at Youtube] from the 2015 Bandy World Championship (the game starts about 4:55 in)

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