Page 8 – Bandy Season Begins

Friday 28 October
The first matches are played
for the season
In Bandy’s top league.

It’s gentlemen
He is the first on board.
The ladies play their first role
Games on Saturday and Sunday.

Bandy is like a soccer ball stuck to the ice.
There are eleven players
In each team on the field
And the plan is approx
100 metres
And a width of 60 meters.

Bandy is an ancient sport.
First game in Bandy
that we know
You must have played in 1875
in London in the United Kingdom.

Bandy is played in Sweden
Since the end of the nineteenth century.
In 1902, the world began
The first series in Bandy.
He was in Sweden.

The first Swedish championship
It was played for men in 1907.
The ladies got their own series in the 1970’s.

Recently, many clubs have
Stop playing Bandy.
One of the reasons is that the climate
Winter has changed
It became warmer than before.

Then it was hard
To arrange ice to play Bandy.
But since 2003 it has been built
Many ice rinks where possible
For indoor bandy play all year round.

It was in Edsbyn in Hälsingland
Where the first hall was built.
Today there are 20 ice rinks
In Sweden where you can play bandy.

Swedish Championship Finals
In Bandy will be held in March next year.
It is not clear yet
Where the finals will be held.

Finals took place this year
At Studenternas IP in Uppsala.
Edspin triumphed there among men
The villa of Lidköping among the ladies.

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