The WUC Floorball 2016 is presented to the Public

The Organizing Committee (OC) of WUC Floorball 2016 kicks off this event with the public presentation held at the Rectory of University of Porto..

With only 19 days to the start of this event, that will be held in University Stadium and Faculty of Sports, from 19 to 24 of July, the Organizing Committee prepared a ceremony that was attended by the Vice President of Porto City Hall, Ms Guilhermina Rego, the Executive Director of Porto Lazer, Mr Rui Alves, the president of Portuguese University Sports Federation (FADU), Mr Daniel Monteiro, the pro-rector of University of Porto, Mr Fernando Remião, and the president of the OC and president of Federação Académica do Porto (FAP), Daniel Freitas.

The University of Porto (UP) and Federação Académica do Porto (FAP) expect to maintain the level of excellence in organizing sporting events. Remember that in 2015, this two institutions in partnership with the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), earned the prize of “Best WUC 2014”, assigned by the International Federation of University Sports (FISU) corresponding to the best World University Championship 2014 in beach volleyball.

This is the third time that the city of Porto is chosen to be the stage of a WUC. “Today we must do more and better. The University of Porto and FAP have joined forces to launch this sport and organize a world championship”.
Daniel Monteiro, share the opinion that the goals are "reaching further and boost the creation and practice of a new sport in our country”.

Ten countries, nine men's teams and seven women. Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Japan and South Korea are the teams that will be present in this competition.

The reception to the teams starts on July 18 and the opening ceremony is scheduled for the 19th, at 18h00, at Avenida dos Aliados.