Two Talata squads crossed the bridge for the last weekend of August. Malbas Madness runs across four halls in Malmö, and we played clubs from Sweden, Denmark and Spain.
Coach Jordan Naughton and Coach Deng Awak split the squads across two halls. On the Saturday morning two of our games tipped off in the same minute.
The U18 / U19 squad
Five games. Two wins, both against IK Eos Lund.
| Fri 28 | Talata 27 – 100 Lucentum Academy |
|---|---|
| Sat 29 | IK Eos Lund Vit 41 – 59 Talata |
| Sat 29 | IK Eos Lund Grön 43 – 51 Talata |
| Sun 30 | KFUM Kalmar 70 – 18 Talata |
| Sun 30 | Talata 43 – 98 Malbas BBK |
Lucentum Academy came up from Alicante and went on to win the tournament. We played them first, on the Friday night, before anyone had found their legs.
The U14 / U15 squad
Four games. Three of them were decided in the last few minutes.
| Fri 28 | Malbas BBK 3 55 – 33 Talata |
|---|---|
| Sat 29 | Talata 45 – 53 Helsingborg BBK Blue |
| Sat 29 | Malbas BBK 2 56 – 49 Talata |
| Sun 30 | Talata 44 – 56 Hovedstadens BF |
Two of the four were against Malbas’s own sides in their own gym. This group has been together a few months.
Who we played
Nine games against eight clubs: Lucentum Academy (Alicante), IK Eos Lund Vit and Grön, KFUM Kalmar, Malbas BBK and their second and third sides, Helsingborg BBK and Hovedstadens BF. Host club Malbas ran the tournament across Baltiska Hallen, Stadionhallen, Heleneholms and the Baltiska träningshall.
A note on the brackets
Swedish tournaments seed on birth year. Danish leagues seed on how old you are on 1 October. The two disagree on purpose, so the squad we call U15 at home entered as Boys U14 in Malmö, and our U19 entered as Boys U18.
The girls travelled too
The girls squad we coach alongside Stevnsgade made the trip and played four games in the same age bracket as our U18s. Three Talata benches, two halls, one weekend.
What a weekend like this is for
Nine games in three days does something that a season of Tuesday evenings cannot. Players find out quickly what holds up and what does not, and they find it out next to their teammates rather than in a coach’s notebook.
We are back on our own court on Monday. Every fixture this season is here.
Photos from Malbas Madness 2026 by Malbas. Used with thanks.
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