- Czech Republic national indoor lacrosse team
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Czech Republic national indoor lacrosse team is one of the national lacrosse teams, which regularly participate in World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. Team consists of amateur players, who are members of Czech box lacrosse league NBLL. A few Canadian players from National Lacrosse League with Czech ancestors, are also members of this team. Box lacrosse seems to be the popular form of lacrosse in Czech Republic, so it's quite clear that they have got better results here than in field lacrosse.
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World Indoor Lacrosse Championship
Czechs took part already in 2003, on the first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship ever, held in Canada. They were not the equal competitors there, but since than, they have become the best European box lacrosse national team. In 2007 they still weren't able to get to Semi-finals and finished on 7th place. But in 2008, Czech Republic was chosen as the host of 2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. Team felt a big responsibility, so they started to prepare themselves. Jim Veltman, one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time, became a Head Coach for this tournament. Czech showed in Prague a plenty of improvements and they were able to beat England in the Quarter-finals. In Semi-finals, they met Iroquois Nationals, but this team was out of their powers. Although they loss to Team USA in Bronze medal game too, they presented themselves as equals and finished as the best European team.
Roster
2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championship roster
# Pos. Player Team 38 G Kurtis Wagar 
Philadelphia Wings1 G Tomáš Říha 
LCC Radotín25 G Marek Dobrý LC Jižní Město61 D Aleš Veselý LC Jižní Město5 D Martin Mrlík (A) TJ Malešice77 D Emil Moravec LCC Radotín15 D Martin Hodaň LCC Radotín28 D Ladislav Kopfstein TJ Malešice13 D Tomáš Říha LC Pardubice16 D Marek Brada LC Slavia Praha4 T Jakub Nováček LC Jižní Město20 T Adam Kostka LCC Radotín33 T Martin Kostka LCC Radotín3 T Radek Skála LCC Radotín97 T Kyle Ross (A) 
Toronto Rock21 T Chet Koneczny Washington Stealth29 F Dominik Pešek LCC Radotín10 F Pavel Došlý (C) LC Jižní Město9 F Jiří Košťál LCC Radotín73 F Petr Poupě (A) LCC Radotín24 F Tomáš Beran TJ Malešice11 F Jan Skokan LC Pardubice67 F Jamie Plunkett LC Jižní MěstoExternal links
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- National lacrosse teams
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