Andrianos Dervis wins in Heraklion

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Editorial Master

The first competition of the Greek season was played in Heraklion (Crete) last week-end. The Satellite tournament was held in the island, organised by the local club of Blade TSC in Heraklion. 13 local players and 11 travellers from Athens and Patra enjoyed an excellent hospitallity provided by Vaggelis Liolios and his teammates.

The main results are as follows:
– Pobladores Griegos won the team event, beating Glyfada in the final.
– in the under 12 James Liolios Jr was the winner.
– in the veterans Giannis Voulgaris won the final against Dimitris Mallias.
– finally in the open Andrianos Dervis beat on shots Chris Aggelinas.

It was the first official tournament played in Crete since the summer of 1986, 28 years earlier.
Also all winners manage to record their first ever win in any type of competition.

Full results are available in the Results section.

Czech Republic is Back!

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Editorial Master

It is a big honor for FISTF to announce that Czech Republic is joining us again. A new association has been created by a few players under the leadership of David Lazzari who has been appointed Secretary of the association. Any contact with the association can be made by e-mail to czechsubbuteo@gmail.com
The association’s website is http://czechsubbuteo.jimdo.com/

SUBBUTEOscars: and the winners are…

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Editorial Master

The SUBBUTEOscars have been awarded in Rochefort during the world cup. The winners are as follows.

Best player: Carlos Flores (Spain)

Lifetime achivement: Marcus Tilgner (Germany)

Best official: George Drazinakis (Greece)

Best Team: Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Best tournament: Europa Cup for clubs in Naples (Italy)

Best veteran: Gianfranco Calonico (Italy)

Best promotion: Tchaaa4 (Belgium)

Best U19: David Gonzalez (Spain)

Best newcomer: Alwin Krause (U12)

Best U15: Kai Hagenkötter (Germany)

Best referee: Henk Landzaat (the Netherlands)

Best Woman: Trisha Baumeler (Switzerland)

Fairest player: Emmanuel Gorgette (France)

FISTF World cup: the winners

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Editorial Master

The FISTF World Cup was played this week-end in Rochefort. A full report will come a bit later but at least the names of the winners are known.

Open category: Juan Noguera (Spain) in the individual event (final against Sergio Ramos of Portugal) and the team of Italy (final against Spain)

U19 category: Luigi Di Vito (Italy) in the individual event (final against Micael Caviglia of Italy) and the team of Italy (final against Belgium)

U15 category Matteo Ciccarelli (Italy) in the individual event (final against Claudio Panebianco of Italy) and the team of Italy (final against Belgium)

U12 category: Francesco Vezzuto (Italy) in the individual event (final against Leonardo Giudice of Italy) and the team of Belgium (final against Italy)

Ladies: Jessica Hardenne (Belgium) in the individual event (final against Delphine Dieudonné of Belgium) and the team of Belgium (final against France)

Veterans: Francesco Mattiangeli (Italy) in the individual event (final against Gianfranco Calonico of Italy) and the team of Italy (final against Belgium)

FISTF Awards Announcement

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Editorial Master

The giving ceremony for FISTF Awards SUBBUTEOscars will be done on next friday in the Hall omnisports Jemelle (Rue des Jardins 1) at the time of 17:30.

All nominees for the awards and participants of the World Cup shall be at that time in the hall.

The Nominees are:

Second title for Paul Andreas in Limassol

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Editorial Master

The second open of Limassol was held on sunday with 12 players taking part and a special guest from greece, Kostas Stamokostas, who was very motivated to beat the local players. Stamokostas reached the final but lost to Paul Andreas (0-1). Andreas therefore wins his second FISTF title this season. Well done!

Cédric Garnier wins in Japan

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Editorial Master

Table football is growing in Japan where 30 players attende the FISTF Grand Prix of Yokohama last week. The Open category had a strong field of 24 players including Cédric Garnier (France), Stéphane Lambert (Belgium) and John Ho (Singapore). These three players reached the semi-finals. John Ho had to wait the shots to beat local player Kenzo Koi. Cédric Garnier proved to be the best player by beating John Ho in the final. Other winners were Koji Fukasawa (U19), Yuko Nakahara (ladies), Kosuke Watanabe (U12) while the club of Yokohama OSC won the first team tournament ever held in Japan.

Papadopoulos and Silveri win in Finland

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Editorial Master

Two Opens were held last week-end in Helsinki (Finland). George papadopoulos was the big winner of the first day as the Greek not only won the Open category in a great final against Italy’s Gabriele Silveri. He also beat Vittorio De Pascale in the veterans final. On sunday, it was an Italian affair with Gabriele Silveri taking the honors after beating Stefano Fontana in the final.

Paul Andreas wins in Cyprus

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Editorial Master

The first of the two FISTF Opens in Cyprus took place this saturday in Limassol with seven players taking part. Due to some late dropouts, the organizers decided to play the event in a group of seven. The final winner was Paul Andreas with 4 wins and 2 draws. Marcos Kalopsidiotis finished second and Nick McLaughlin from England was third.

Luca Colangelo and TFC Mattersburg on top at the Major of Mattersburg

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Editorial Master

In the first week-end of August the FISTF Major of Mattersburg was played in Austria with 54 players from six different countries taking part. There was a big surprise in the Open category as Luca Colangelo from italy won the title. He beat Daniele Pochesci in the semi (1-0) and Alexander Haas in the final (3-0). Marios Strommer won the U19 section but lost the U15 final to Italy’s Riccardo Lazzari. The veterans tournament was very open but in the end, Lucio Canicchio from Italy beat Günther Bamberzky in the final. The team event saw 10 teams competing. TFC Mattersbrug won the final against the Italians of Pisa while Fiamme Azzurre and Wiener Neustadt lost in the semis.