One cloudy day in 1968, Sune Persson visited Kockum Leisure in Malmö. There he got to see a small hollow plastic ball with holes in. He was explained to himself that it was used to practice golf indoors. Persson, who was a youth consultant at Korpen Malmö, thought that that ball could play bandy with indoors. Said and done. At Kirseberg's leisure farm, Persson made sure that bandy began to be played with the little balls. The clubs were made of wood. It was hard and relentless for the legs - pPecialally, when the clubs' winding of leather began to release and the straps sniffed. There were no rules. The new sport was called bandyg golf. Rumor spread. Representatives from the national crust came and saw the Malmö youth play. The sport began to gain a foothold.
Around 1970, a couple of Gothenburg citizens began to import plastic clubs that made the game more gentle on the legs. More and more schools, leisure centers and corp clubs around the country obtained equipment. Associations in other sports branches began to use the sport as heating for their regular workouts. The name of the sport still varied. In some places, the sport was called Landbandy, while in other places it was called soft bandy or floorball.
- There are a thousand and one who has insisted on the fact that they came up with the idea for the floor. But from the beginning, it is a corps sport that was introduced in Malmö. I never thought it would be so big! says Persson.
Today, there are over 110,000 licensed floor players in Sweden divided into around 840 associations. Calculations say that nearly half a million Swedes regularly play floorball in associations and in Korpen as well as at schools and in workplaces. Internationally, floorball is played in more than 75 countries and the popularity of the sport is growing steadily around the world.
The challenge for the flooring is now to come among the Olympic sports. The road there is still long, but it is significantly shorter than Sune Persson could ever imagine when he looked down at his blurred narrow legs with thoughtful gaze as he removed the wooden sticks one by one.
In short. The indoor band was started, and Ongoal was founded, in Malmö - Innebandyn's hometown.