This month, Germany sliced down their giant pool of homegrown talent into a list of 35 names that are still fighting for a place on that final 23-man World Games roster. They were finally able to whittle it down to 35 men after an extensive training process that included many sessions across Europe and North America.
The process took Germany as far as New England for trials, including practice sessions in Gillette Stadium, home of the NFL’s Patriots. They spent a week in the Boston area competing and working with an array of NCAA Division 1, 2, and 3 programs. The list will have to be narrowed down to 28 in the coming months, no easy task when it comes to a group so well prepared.
(Check out the FULL list of FIL rosters HERE.)
Germany placed 9th in Denver’s 2014 World Games and as high as 6th (1998, 2010) in the world in previous competitions.
Germany 35-Man Training Roster
Goalies
- Darin Eakins (Currently Unaffiliated)
- Florian Fällenbacher (Berliner HC)
- Mikhail Zinoviev (HTHC Hamburg Warriors)
- Philip Werfs (ABV Stuttgart)
Midfield
- Philipp Broz (KKHT Schwarz-Weiß Köln)
- Johannes Dalheimer (Karlsrube Storm)
- Jannik Fooken (KKHT Schwarz-Weiß Köln)
- Felix Geldner (VfL 05 Aachen)
- Wolfgang Grießl (HLC Rot-Weiß München)
- Stefan Göser (KKHT Schwarz-Weiß Köln)
- Lukas Kinds (LC Kiel)
- Lukas Möll (HLC Rot-Weiß München)
- Lars Nitz (SCC Berlin – BLAX)
- Dominic Schüler (KKHT Schwarz-Weiß Köln)
- Moritz Spiegel (HTHC Hamburg Warriors)
- Alex Weiss (Sacred Heart University)
- Florian Werner (SC Frankfurt 1880)
- Peter Wittman (Turnerbund 1888 Erlagen)
- Caspar Zizka (HTHC Hamburg Warriors)
Defense
- Anton Albrecht (HLC Rot-Weiß München)
- David Beckmann (SC Frankfurt 1880)
- Matthias Lehna (HLC Rot-Weiß München)
- Bjarne Lenzig (SCC Berlin – BLAX)
- Niklas Pepper (Münster Mohawks)
- Matthias Rau (HLC Rot-Weiß München)
- Jake Steinfels (Düsseldorfer SC 1899)
- Lukas Tophoven (Liberty University)
- David Ufer (HTHC Hamburg Warriors)
- Björn Wulfmeyer (HLC Rot-Weiß München)
Attack
- Marc Brandenburger (KKHT Schwarz-Weiß Köln)
- Adam Eakins (HTHC Hamburg Warriors)
- Per-Anders Olters (SC Frankfurt 1880)
- Sören Spiegel (HTHC Hamburg Warriors)
- Gustav Weber (SC Frankfurt 1880)
- Joshua Winters Schwarts (Berliner HC)
Only six names (Wolfgang Griessl, Matthias Lehna, Marc Brandenburger, Philipp Broz, Moritz Spiegel, and Lukas Tophoven) from the 2014 team are included on the 35-man cut.
