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Hi everyone, I’m Loïs Sevestre (you probably know better my older brother Lucas who is also a G-Team member) and it’s my first post on G-Life.   I’m 22, and have been playing with Gryphon sticks since 2010. I’ve done all my learning of hockey in St Germain HC, near Paris, which is probably the best club of the last ... Read More »

  After two games, we are at the top of the pool with Belgium and Canada (2 wins each). We won a tricky first game against a usual opponent, Poland, for our start of the competition with a sunny and warm day in front of a nice affluence in the stands. After two minutes, Poland took the lead on a ... Read More »

The hockey season in Belgium has ended one month ago, but the France National Hockey Program has just started with great international competitions arriving. We started the preparation with France for the World League Round 2 two months ago in Paris with a large group of 30 players. After a few camps and games in Germany, Netherlands and France we ... Read More »

Hi  everybody,   After our two first games of the olympic qualification tournament in India, we got two wins and are ahead of the pool with India. The first game against Poland wa one of the most important of the tournament! We had to win to start well the competition.We knewPoland would be though and ruthless! Fortunately, we dominated the ... Read More »

This is the final step that we are going to take! In few days we will leave for New Dehli, India to play the Olympic Qualification Tournament, our last chance to qualify for the Olympic Games 2012. We all know it will be very hard, but we believe in our chance. Even if our last results were not those expected, ... Read More »

The hours which followed my post, we played against Scotland, a team we haven’t beaten since 2008. We knew this game will be hard, and whatever the scoreboard was, we couldn’t stop playing until the final whistle. As our two first matches we have been leaded but managed to reduce the goal’s difference before the halftime (1-1). They were controlling ... Read More »

After months and months of training, musculation, running and practice games essentially at INSEP, the preparation for the Euro Championship has really started with the Champion’s Challenge II, the first official games that allow us to play with the purpose to play well and win each game. The Champion’s Challenge has taken place in Lille, France, a city who wants ... Read More »

After the 2 weeks spent In Buenos Aires, where we’ve played 4 games against Argentina, we went to San Diego, California, USA to play 4 more games. It’s was an opportunity for me to discover the USA and play two more nations I’ve never confront. The games were played at the Olympic Center, in Chula Vista, with lower temperatures than ... Read More »

Ola todos, So, it’s been one week we arrived at Buenos Aires in order to play 4 games against Argentina. We’ve already played two of them which have turned as defeat. We have lost the first 4-3, in a game where we chased them because every time they took the lead, we squared. Unfortunately, we never really managed to take ... Read More »

Buenos Dias, Here we are, after two months of hockey break with the National selection, we are now ready to face Argentina at Buenos Aires. We arrived the 6th of February after a long journey (about 30 hours from Paris to BA) and we’ve taken place in the National Center of Sport (CENARD) which seems to be the equivalent of ... Read More »