Petržalka (pictured above) with a population of about 150.000, the biggest borough of Slovakia´s capital city Bratislava is most infamous for its "paneláks" (most commonly known as Communist style blocks of houses in English). Despite its 150.000 citizens Petržalka has no ice rink, but it´s about to change- a private investor has come with an interesting project to build a small training rink on M.C. Sklodowskej street in Osvištie, Petržalka, which will be used mostly for youth and women´s hockey. The rink should be finished by the end of 2012 and here are some visualisations:
Quotes from the president of the newly created HC Petržalka 2010 Lukáš Machala:
"Our club was created at the end of 2010 and a few days ago was accepted as a regular member of SZĽH. We want to start with youth- starting from the youngest kids and then filling the older categories- younger and older pupils, dorast (U18) and Juniors (U20). In the coming two years we´re not planning to create a men´s team."
(Don´t worry, there is an article about the age catehories in Slovak hockey coming soon)
"Our aim is also to create a goaltender academy in Petržalka, after all it was in Petržalka where Jaro Halák grew up playing ball hockey. Our next aim is the development of girls´ and womens´ hockey. Slovak women´s team is very high on IIHF´s rankings and they´ve played at the Olympics, but our numbers of registered female players is ery small. We´d like to create an international girl´s hockey academy in Petržalka."
HC Petržalka 2010 logo
Good luck to this project, and may we have as many as possible similar projects as possible, because we all know that Slovak hockey needs it!
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