Rollersoccer in London is a fantastic sport. You can hone your inline skating skills, specifically your starting, stopping, turning and even backwards skating. It is also a great way to keep in shape and many players comment that their cardio fitness greatly improves which can be useful for the London Friday Night Skate ( FNS ) and Sunday Roller Stroll events
The sport is played all over the world. As deliberate pushing, nudging etc. is not permitted both men and women play together. The atmosphere is very accepting to new members.
In March 2003 the first UK Rollersoccer event was organised by Citiskate, who offer inline skating lessons in London UK. It was so funny that our abdominal muscles also got a good work out.
Such was the interest that in July 2003 Citiskate launched the first ever Rollersoccer World Cup in London. Teams included Switzerland, Germany, Holland and even the U.S.A. (yes some of them have passports). There were loads of other results - but we lost them. However, we do remember England getting murdered 10-1 in their opening match, ha ha!
In the 2003 final Holland obliterated the Germans to become the first everRSWC champions. But just one year later Germany once again faced the Dutch...and all hell broke loose! You can read about what hapenned in the Rollersoccer World Cup section...
In the UK, Rollersoccer sessions currently only happen in London. Do you live in the UK and organise sessions? Or perhaps you are outside the UK - we would love to hear from you. Send us some pictures and we'll publish them!
