Last year Joost Schram visited the yearly Finnish referee course on behalf of the NeFUB referee committee. Finland each year invites referee committees of different countries to exchange ideas. And during this weekend, Finland and Netherlands agreed on a referee exchange program. NeFUB would send two persons to referee two games in Finland and Finland would send a referee pair back to referee games in our Dutch league. And here the foundation was set for our first introduction in the Finnish Salibandyliiga, since Eelco and I were the ones nominated to referee the games in Finland.

After our nomination, we got to hear that we would get the games SSV - Kovee and AC Haki - Josba. From that moment on I started to follow these teams here seeing that SSV and Kovee were doing especially well, winning almost every match, resulting in a number one and two position when our weekend started. Also the other game, looked very interesting, since this were the number 8 and 9, fighting for a place in the play-offs (first 8 teams).