Current Events March 25: Swedish Bandy Final

A popular sport in Sweden is Bandy also may be known as Russian hockey. Bandy is played on a very large surface of ice about the size of a football field, with 11 players per team, and instead of a puck they use a ball. The Swedish Bandy final was played at Studenternas IP in Uppsala last which is where it is typically held on last Sunday, March 20. Uppsala is about 80 km north of Stockholm. The final was played between Sandviken and Bollnäs. The game is played outside and it was a sunny day with about 20,000 people in attendance. It was 5-5 at the end of the game because within the last couple of minutes Bollnäs scored one goal but it was taken away because of a mistake by the referee. It went into overtime and Sandviken won with a final score of 6-5.