Official practise day

One full day of practise games. Sweden was the first team out together with Ireland, which means we've done almost everything today with them. After arrival the first item of the day was the official team photo.
The practise game was next (with the warmup). Shorter game than usual. 2*20 minutes with a running clock shortens the game with a lot. Ireland started off much better than us. They got through our defenses too easy and we did not have the ball on the offensive side nearly enough. Ireland in the lead 6 - 0 in half time. Our coaches had a serious talk with the team and in the second half the Swedish team was playing much better. The end result was 9 - 1.
The game was followed by a tour of the facilities, which was the end of our practise day. The team divided itself into three groups. One group went to a lacrosse store, one group stayed to watch the practise game between Finland and Hong Kong (Finland won) and the rest went back.
I got into a small conversation with the manager of Israel, their team have their rooms in the same corridor as we do. They came in around three o' clock in the morning after being delayed six hours due to a storm in Toronto.
Right now the team is doing their afternoon practise.