Great news out of Canada where Mike Sgro has taken over the position of President of the Canadian Subbuteo Table Football Association (CSTFA).

 Mike Sgro

Previous incumbent, Shane Hoopfer, is staying on as VP to help with the transition phase as a new Board is built.

We wish all the best to Mike, and pass on our great thanks to Shane.

This is great news for our sport in North America, with CSTFA and the American Subbuteo Association fully supported by FISTF as the official associations to grow our sport and develop competitions across the region.

FISTF BoD

Japan’s national association, NOSK,  were invited to participate in the Yokohama Football Film festival to stage demonstrations of our sport for those attending the football films.

More than 1000 people watched table football and had a time to flick in this event.

Denmark’s Jesper Stasl Nielsen san and Tommas lange Clausen san helped the event during their traveling in Japan.

Most of spectators obviously had a great passion for football, and were pleasantly surprised when discovering table football.
A special friendly match between Cédric Garnier and Jesper gave the biggest impact, as people recognised that table football had its own magic!

Manuel Santos of SC Grosseto won the Individual Open event at the International Open Cascai, beating Ricardo Pavão in the final.

Manuel Santos (winner) & Ricardo Pavão (defeated finalist)

The U15 title went to Tomas Santos of Clube de Subbuteo Zarco, while Jose Santos (CF Sassoeiros) won the Veterans category.

Tomás Santos (winner U15)

Left – Nuno Afonso (SCP – Núcleo Sacavém) (defeated finalist) and José Santos (CF Sassoeiros) Veterans winner

Sergio Ramos of Portugal and the Bologna Tigers claimed victory in the Open category of the GP of Scotland, beating England’s Chris Thomas (The Glide, Slide, Chip & Dip Club) with a ‘golden goal’ after they had drawn 1-1.

Sergio (green) against Chris in the Open final

Antonio Montaño (Spain) consolidated his position as Veteran number 1 when he defeated his Tiburones clubmate Daniel Scheen (BEL) 2-0.

Antonio Montaño (white) winner of the Veterans title

Daniel’s son, Noé (Stembert)  was successful in the Under 19 but he had to go to shots to beat England’s Thomas Price (Kent Invicta).

Noé Scheen (left)

Thomas, however, had the consolation of the Under 15 trophy with victory over countrywoman Ruby Mathews (Manchester TFC).

England’s Brian Daley (Yorkshire Phoenix) won the Consolation Plate, a WASPA event.

Congratulations to all the French GP players, and a special thank you from FISTF to all FTC Issy members who made the event a success.
Winners:
Open : Justin Leroy (Rochefort TS)
Veteran : Daniel Scheen (Tiburones FM)
Ladies: Emilie Despretz (AS Hennuyer)
U19 : Maxime Rairoux (SC Eugies lion’s)
U15 : Matthéo Grégoirs (Rochefort TS)
U12 : Quentin Ausset (ESC Champs sur Marne)
Teams : Tiburones FM

Tiburones wins the Team event at the FISTF GP de France!
More information soon!

Congratulations to Charlie Aquilina who won the FISTF Satellite of Bormla over the weekend, beating Angelo Borg in the final.

In photo: Semi-finalist Alfred Bonnici, Charlie, Angelo, and the other semi-finalist John Zammit.

Melbourne TFC’s Carl Young rolled back the years to claim a fantastic victory in the 4th Asian Cup of Table Football, staged in Melbourne over the weekend of January 20-21.

Young beat Hong Kong’s Antonio Carabillo 2-0 in a pulsating final.

Young, who emigrated to Australia and is an Australian citizen, had a fantastic weekend, being part of his club team that took the Teams event, beating Sydney TFC 3-0.

Melbourne TFC

His only hiccup was when the Australian national team could not beat traditional rivals Singapore, with the Lions taking their 4th consecutive national team title.

Victorious Singaporeans

Japan’s Kimi Wada caused an upset in the Ladies Final, beating local Beth Eveleigh (Northern Phoenix TFC) 2-1 on shots in the final after a 0-0 draw.

Female participants. Kimi Wada (green) and Beth Eveleigh (yellow).

The unofficial junior teams event was won in stunning fashion by Western Flickers TFC who beat Northern Falcons TFC with the winning goal scored four seconds from time!

Western FLickers Junior team

In the Junior event, Northern Falcon’s Oli Ollnow claimed the title.

Oliver Ollnow (left) against clubmate Jonty Brener.

Western Flickers’ Benny Ng claimed top prize in the consolation WASPA event.

Benny Ng won the consolation WASPA event

Several records were broken during the event, with the most players ever at an Asian event (70), the most juniors (16) and the most female players (six).