Champions Cup 2016 referee presentations – 29.09.2016

There will be eight referees and two referee observers in the Champions Cup 2016, which will be played in Borås in Sweden from the 30th of September to 2nd of October. The Head of the referees will be Mr. Radek Hora from Czech Republic and Mr. Frank Leuenberger is the referee observer.


The nominated referees are:

Kamil Sojka (CZE)
Kamil Sojka is 35 years old and works as a dispatcher in logistics. He also lives in Havirov and he´s married and has twin daughters. He´s been a referee 16 years and the last ten years he´s been refereeing with Tomas Sojka and they are cousins.

Tomas Sojka (CZE)
Tomas Sojka, 36, works as the Head of implementation and operation department in an IT-Company in Ostrava. He´s also married and has two kids.

Mikko Alakare (FIN)
a 40 years old attorney at law has a long experience as a referee. He started his career in the national level already in 1993 and his international career in 2000. His first big challenge as an IFF referee was the 2004 Men´s WFC final with his former pair.

Vesa Vilkki (FIN)
is 36 years old product manager from Helsinki. He started his career as a national league referee in 2002 and his international career in 2006. Experineced referee with several international games together with his pair for 10 years.

Martins Gross (LAT)
Started his referee career 11 years ago in Latvia and his present occupation is referee. He started his international career in 2007 with his present partner. He lives in Liepaja, a coastal region by the Baltic Sea.

Martins Larinovs (LAT)
is 31 years old and he has been a referee for more than decade and an IFF referee since 2007. He lives in Rubene and is a very  eager cook and one of his favourite hobby is to pick mushrooms. He and his pair have refereed around 100 international games so far.

Glenn Boström (SWE)
Glenn Boström is 41 years of age and works as an IT-consultant. He´s married and has two kids. He also has a player background and actually he has won the Swedish U19 championship with his team way back in 1992.

Håkan Söderman (SWE)
Håkan Söderman is one of the most experienced referees on the international level. He´s 48 years old, works as a Floorball consultant. They´ve been in several international tournaments with his pair.