The High Council of sports hosts the presentation of the World Roller Ball Games of Barcelona 2019

Madrid, 21 November 2018.- The Superior Council of Sports today has hosted the presentation of the World Roller Ball Games, whose second edition was staged in Barcelona between 4 and 14 July 2019, with 11 small wheel disciplines such as hockey online, the skaters or scooter.

The event came Marian Soriano, general manager of sports of CSD, Marten Carranza, sports commissioner concello de Barcelona, Carmelo Paniagua, president of the Spanish Federation of skating, Ramón Basiana, his counterpart in the federation Catalan, and athletes Showpost.php Thomas, the doorwoman hockey selection, world champions and Europa, and Joseba Fernández, four times world champion of speed and nine in europe speed skating.

Soriano Marian has stressed that the High Council of sports will participate in the quotation from Barcelona finance part of infrastructures “ because it is going to be a reference event, which also has the consideration of event of exceptional public interest by the Government ”, further emphasizing that the WRG “ are a very strengthened and will be a success of organization ”. A total of 117 international federations have confirmed their participation in the World Roller Ball Games.

Carmelo Paniagua has stated that “ the sporting event will make the wheel small becomes big. It Is an amazing event, devotion to a city that lives with a lot of intensity this sport, "said, stressing that Spain has the world champions in six of the eleven modalities to be in Barcelona: alpine, artistic, decline, inline freestyle, hockey line, hockey, roller derby, roller freestyle, scooter, skateboarding (Olympic will mode in Tokio 2020), speed and marathon.

All the present authorities have also agreed to point out that one of the most important aspects of the World Roller Ball Games will be the legacy for the city in facilities, dissemination of these sports modalities and an increase in the number of followers.

In the picture attached, from left to right: Marc Caballé (executive director of the WRG), Ramón Basiana, Marten Carranza, Marian Soriano and Carmelo Paniagua