Minister Abodi: “We live projected into the future thanks to the youth. This event represents all of this in the best possible way”
From 6 to 22 September the “World Cup of World Cups” will take place in 4 Italian regions. The Piedmontese city will host the track hockey and national team competitions
I World Skate Games Italia 2024 are an unprecedented experience in which all the 12 discipline practiced on wheels merge into a whirlwind of breathtaking emotions, a true festival of youth where sport and entertainment mix. The World Championship presented today in Novara in the splendid setting of the monumental complex of Broletto, in the presence, among others, of the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi. The Piedmontese city will host the competitions in SeptemberHockey Rink and the Italian national team.
“We live projected into the future and thanks to young people. This event represents all of this in the best possible way. When 100 years of history are celebrated, as happens for the world federation and for Hockey here in Novara – underlined the minister Abode – when we talk about numbers such as more than 100 participating countries, 12 disciplines, 4 regions involved, 12,000 athletes, 600 competitions, as happens for the World Skate Games 2024, it is clear that a huge challenge is being launched. A challenge which, thanks to the organizational capacity of the World and Italian Federations and the local organizational machine, will be met in the best possible way, for an event of extraordinary importance. A spectacular territory like that of Novara can be promoted – said Abodi – The world event represents a meeting between peoples, through sport, for peace, inclusion, in symbiosis with the human being. The Future is not only about medals and victories, but also about inclusion, loyalty, solidarity and legality. Values fully represented by roller sports.”
After the great success of the 2022 edition, staged on Argentine soil, in Buenos Aires, for the first time Italy will host the fourth edition of the World Skate Gameswith both institutional and central support, with the support of Department of Sport of the Presidency of the Council of Ministerswhich is local, with the involvement and contribution of all the Regions and Municipalities involved. There will be four regions involved: Piedmont, Lazio, Abruzzo ed Emilia Romagnafor a sports festival that promises to be one of a kind.
“It will not only be the world championship of roller skating world championships, but a real festival of young people – remarked the president of Fisr and World Skate, Sabatino Aracu – Every event, immersed in the heart of the cities, starting from Novara, Piedmont, Rome, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio. An event set to the rhythm of music, an essential soundtrack that will liven up every competition in a mix of tricks, jumps, emotions, sporting records and team games. Novara will then be among the protagonists of the event, hosting the Roller Hockey competitions. A city and a region that have great hockey tradition and history. We are sure to guarantee an exceptional show and entertain and excite many people.”
Novara it will host the Track Hockey and Italian National Team competitions. The Piedmontese city has a hundred-year history in the discipline of Rink Hockey. For more than thirty years it has been one of the Italian sporting capitals, thanks to its club and one of the most successful teams in all of Italy (32 championships). From the historic external track of Viale Buonarroti, where the first champions and the first strong interest in rollers were born, until 1969, the date of the construction of the Palasport in Viale Kennedy, which became the temple of world rollers, until the 2000s. Many players who, starting from these two rinks, have become stars of the world Rink Hockey firmament. In 2024 the return to the top national series, with the promotion of Azzurra Novara to Serie A1, to regain the level that belongs to the city and the Novara public. Now here come the World Skate Games Italia 2024accompanied by the desire of all Novara sports, and not only, to rediscover the same interest and love for the tradition that Rink Hockey has given in these one hundred years of history.
“I am happy and proud that our Novara can host the Roller Hockey World Championship – he underlined Ivan De Grandis, Councillor for Sport of the Municipality of Novara: especially in the year in which we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1984 World Championships, held right in our city, and the Centenary of Novara’s hockey history. In recent years, we have worked hard to improve the sports facilities of our city, starting with the Pala Dal Lago, a symbol of the history of Italian hockey. Having reached this high number of members is a great source of pride and certifies the good work done so far by the organizing committee. But we certainly won’t stop here! Novara will be ready for such an important event, both nationally and especially internationally”.
The Italian national team The men’s team of coach Alessandro Bertolucci has been placed in Group B, together with Spain, France and Chile. The debut will be against Chile, on Monday 16 September, then on Tuesday 17 against France and, to close the qualifying group, on Wednesday 18, against Spain. The Women’s National Team will instead debut on 16 September against England. A World Cup that will be opened on 8 September by the Under 19 National Team, against Colombia.
I World Skate Games they will be an event with impressive numbers: 12 disciplines, including the Olympic one skateboarding, 4 regions involved, 20 differenti locations, 12.000 between athletes and teams, 600 competitions, 100 Participating countries, beyond 100 broadcasting tv e media, more than 150 titles to be awarded, for the event that, at an international level, awards the most titles in the history of sporting events. These are just some of the numbers of the extraordinary World Cup of World Cups.
The discipline: Figure Skating – Speed Skating – Skateboarding – Skate Cross – Roller Hockey – Inline Hockey – Downhill – Roller Freestyle – Slalom – Scootering – Roller Derby – Inline Freestyle.
The regions involved: Piedmont, Lazio, Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna. Rome will also host the spectacular Opening Ceremony, scheduled for September 6, in Piazza di Spagna.
For several years now, roller sport disciplines have enjoyed enormous media appeal, thousands of followers and a constantly growing international following, thanks to significant numbers and many enthusiasts and athletes.
Italy, the theatre of the World Cup of World Cups
Regions involved in the 2024 World Skate Games:
PIEDMONT
Novara: Rink Hockey
LAZIO
Roma, Ostia: Skateboarding Park / Scootering Park / Roller Freestyle Park
Roma, Colle Oppio: Skateboarding Street / Roller Freestyle Street/ Scootering Street
Roma, Pincio: Skateboarding Vert / Roller Freestyle Vert / Inline Freestyle/ Skate Cross
Rome will also host the Opening Ceremony.
ABRUZZO
Roccaraso: Inline Hockey
Montesilvano: Skating, Track Racing and Roller Derby
Pescara: 100 m. Skating Racing
Sulmona: Skating Road Race
Chieti: Inline Slalom
Tortoreto: Inline Downhill e Skateboarding Downhill
Roller Marathon Skating Race, the suggestive 42 km between the streets of the cities and the Adriatic seafront: Pescara, Montesilvano and Francavilla al Mare.
EMILIA ROMAGNA
Rimini: Figure Skating
In addition to being young and urban, i World Skate Games Italia are also a fully sustainable eventthe costs of which will be largely repaid by the expected induced effects, as demonstrated by the study commissioned by World Skate, which allowed for an ex ante evaluation of the socio-economic impact of the WSG 2024. In line with what was also highlighted by the 2023 Sport Report, which highlights both the positive impact of the sports industry on GDP and the social return on investments, the study shows interesting results regarding the overall return.
