Mistral Men’s U23 team – home competition!

I like writing about young athletes who are beginning their careers because I have the opportunity to watch and follow them from their very beginning. The R4 Euro Champs in Slovakia starts this week, and so we are writing about the Men’s U23 team that will represent Slovakia at this competition.

SVK 1 team will compete under the famous name of “Mistral”. The honour and privilege to defend the colours of their country goes to:​ Martin Janata, Matúš gewissler, Juraj Skákala, Matej Krempaský with coach Juraj Halama.
Will you have white paddles like the more famous Mistral women’s team?
“​No, we will have plastic blue paddles, that we were given when we were 14 years old at a world cup in Germany. Although we finished 6th they gave us those paddles because of our skills at such a young age. (That was with different members in the team)​”
The team started in June 2014, BUT already with big ...more