No Venue | ABN AMRO Men's Champions Trophy (National Mens) | Match Report(s)
No Venue | ABN AMRO Men's Champions Trophy (National Mens) | Match Report(s)
No Venue | ABN AMRO Men's Champions Trophy (National Mens) | Match Report(s)
Australia have claimed the ABN AMRO Men’s Champions Trophy 2009 following a 5-3 victory over Germany in a pulsating final match in Melbourne, Australia. Both teams played with passion and pride in front of the capacity crowd, but it was Australia who emerged as the winners in a truly thrilling contest. Australia were forced to fight back from a being 1-3 down at half time, but second half strikes from Liam DE YOUNG, Luke DOERNER (2) and Fergus KAVANAGH gave the home favourites a victory that they will never forget.
It was a fantastic day for Australian hockey on many levels, with the Champions Trophy victory being added to the individual award given to Jamie DWYER, who was named as WorldHockey Men’s Player of the Year for a third time, while Grant SCHUBERT and Luke DOERNER were named as joint top scorers in the tournament. SCHUBERT was also named as the Player of the Tournament, with Korean keeper LEE Myung Ho being named as the Goalkeeper of the Tournament.
Korea finished off their tournament in fine style beating Netherlands 4-2 and Spain finally found their form against England to finish in fifth place and leave England bottom with only one win from their 6 games.
It underlines how far England are off the pace for a medel in 2012 when you recall that Australia beat Spain 10-0. England will of course be GB in London and add some players to the squad but they are still miles away from being contenders.
