U18 women's national team: Final World Cup squad has been determined

22 players nominated / Kettner: “Full concentration on the next two weeks”

The line-up is up: U18 women's national coach Tommy Kettner has named a total of 22 players (two goalkeepers, eight defenders and twelve forwards) to the squad for the 2018 IIHF U18 Women's Ice Hockey World Championship in Dmitrov (Russia). Fighting from January 06th to 13.01.2017th, XNUMX DEB-Selection near the Russian capital Moscow in Group B with Finland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland for a place in the quarter-finals.

For the German U18 women's national team, this is the first A World Cup since 2013, where they had to make their way to Division I. Last year the... DEB-Selection then achieved promotion in Hungary and thus returned to the top eight teams in the world.

Tommy Kettner, U18 women's national coach: “After four years in Division I, we are back in the top division and have been intensively preparing individually and as a team for this World Cup in the last few months. The goal now is to concentrate fully on the next two weeks in order to deliver our best performance in every game.”

Further information about the tournament can be found here here

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