Our brothers in Singapore continue to push the boundaries in promoting our sport.
The Kebun Baru Doves Table Football Club took part in the grand opening of their local Community Club Grand with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Advisor for Yishun GRC GRO, Mr Henry Kwek introduced to our sport by club organiser John Edwards.
Prime Minister Lee even tried his hand on the table.
The FISTF World Cup will have live streaming available on the FISTF World Cup Facebook page on Saturday and Sunday, 1-2 September.
Please let your clubmates, friends and family know.
The technical solution for the streaming will be provided by Hammonds Ltd, with overhead and table level cameras, mounted on a structure with lighting.
All notifications will be through the Facebook page FISTF World Cup, where an event has been created.
The World Cup organising committee and FISTF will also provide official results through the FISTF Website: http://www.fistf.com/WorldCup/2018/
A small reporting and photo team will also ensure ‘flash results’, ‘flash quotes’ from players, photos of the action, and short interviews will be posted on the website, Facebook, twitter and Instagram.
Get your teammates, friends and family to like the Facebook pages:
FISTF World Cup: https://www.facebook.com/FISTFworldcup/
FISTF: https://www.facebook.com/FISTF/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FISTF_Board
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fistf_board/
Denmark is staging the last event of the 2017-18 season before the World Cup next week.
The International Open Odense will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 25 and 26 at the Risingskolen in Odense.
Good luck to all!
Austria’s 2016 FISTF Open World Champion and 2017 Runner up Wolfgang Leitner has been ruled out of the World Cup after breaking a leg in a sporting accident.
We wish him all the best in his recovery and hope to see him back in action during the 2018-19 season.
Players and fans around the world will be able to follow all the action at the FISTF World Cup 2018 Gibraltar on the web.
You can tell your clubmates, family and friends, that they can see what’s happening on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Please ask them to ‘like’ the FB pages:
https://www.facebook.com/FISTF/
https://www.facebook.com/
Christian Filippella (CCT Eagles Napoli) beat Daniel Cranston (TSC Black Rose 98 Roma) 3-1 to win the LA FISTF International Open final on Sunday, August 12.
Now on to the World Cup!!
Daniel andChristian, and with Peter Alegi (referee) before the final.
The Australian table football season came to a close with the Perth International Open last weekend.
The ATFA did a nice graphic and summary on their website.
http://subbuteoaustralia.com/?page_id=3994
Australia will have a five man team at the FISTF World Cup, with a team in the Open category for the first time since the inaugural World Cup in Paris 1994.
All eyes will be on Perth in Western Australia this weekend for the International Open.
It’s the last chance for some of the Aussie lads to hone their skills before the World Cup in September.
Best of luck to all.
FISTF has released the final entries for the FISTF World Cup 2018 Gibraltar: ”
http://www.fistf.com/WorldCup/2018/entries.html
A total of 64 players will contest both the Open and Veterans categories, with 23 in Ladies, 20 in U19, 22 in U15 and 28 in U12.
In the national team event, 15 will play in the Opens, 9 in Veterans, 4 in Ladies, 3 in U19, 3 in U15 and 5 in U12.
For more information, follow the FISTF World Cup Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FISTFworldcup/
Full results will be delivered during the World Cup via the website: http://www.fistf.com/WorldCup/2018/
Follow FISTF on Twitter (@FISTF_Board) and Instagram (FISTF_Board) to get all the action over the period of the World Cup from September 1-2.
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On a weekend when a confident England lined up a World Cup semi-final place alongside Belgium and France in football, it was perhaps an omen that a Belgian club, led by a French player, dominated the honors at the FISTF Harrow International Open in London.
Frenchman Remi Soret, playing under the colors of Belgian club AS Hennuyer, won the individual title and was part of the team event’s winning side.
And his Belgian teammates, the brother and sister duo, Steffen and Emilie Despretz, both reached the semi-finals of the main event, Oliver Pere made the last 4 of the veterans, whilst Corentin Boltz took the under 15 title, as Hennuyer claimed three of the weekend’s prizes.
It was only in the veterans’ competition that they missed out, as David Busch was in fine form, beating Marco Ghigliotti 9-0 in the quarter-finals, Pere 6-2 in the semis, before defeating top seed Daniel Scheen 5-2 in the final.
Soret meanwhile had to come through a tough quarter-final against Mark Farrell in the open section, scoring a last-minute winner, to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 success.
He then beat Emilie Despretz 3-0, to set up a final against Austrian Christian Blumel, a 4-2 winner against both Paul Andreas and Steffen Despretz in the preceding rounds.
There, a game of few chances came alive midway through the first half when Blumel went ahead via a clever free-flick routine. Soret hit a superb equalizer minutes later, crisscrossing and weaving through his opponent’s defense on a moving ball, before hitting a chipped shot into the top corner.
The pair traded chances before halftime, but just 45 seconds after the break, Soret went ahead after a well-worked move down the left wing was finished with a calmly chipped effort on goal.
Blumel applied pressure, forcing a couple of good saves, and hitting the crossbar, but midway through the half, the Hennuyer player extended his lead with a low shot, instigated from a short free-flick.
Soret hit the crossbar, and Blumel forced another good save before the game was effectively ended with four minutes to play when Soret scored a fourth with a looping effort from the right wing.
With Hennuyer’s players so dominant in the individuals, the focus of the team event was on who would play them in the final.
As it was, The White Star edged out their domestic rivals, Harrow Hawks, on goal difference in their semi-final clash, after finishing two individual wins apiece.
Panos Stemitsiotis and Paul Andreas edged Phil Homes and Jeremy Bradley, respectively, by a single goal for the host club. But after Andy Boyer’s late winner – against the run of play – versus Rudi Peterschnigg, Mark Farrell’s 4-0 victory over Paul O’Donovan-Rossa was enough to give White Star the overall victory on goals.
The English team put up a fight in the final, with Bradley playing out a scoreless match versus Steffen Despretz and Farrell settling for a 2-2 draw against Soret, having led 2-0, via two fine strikes.
However, Emilie Despretz’s 3-0 success against Phil Holmes and Oliver Pere’s hard-fought 1-0 against Boyer gave Hennuyer a 2-0 match win.
So whilst football may be coming home, the trophies from England’s latest table football event were going to Belgium and France.
Quarter-finals
Remi Soret (France) 3-2 Mark Farrell (Ireland)
Emilie Despretz (Belgium) 6-0 Michele Cerullo (Italy)
Steffen Despretz (Belgium) 1-0 Elliott Bellefontaine (England)
Paul Andreas (Cyprus) 2-4 Christian Blumel (Austria)
Semi-finals
Remi Soret 3-0 Emilie Despretz
Steffen Depretz 2-4 Christian Blumel
Final
Remi Soret 4-1 Christian Blumel
Team Semi-finals
AS Hennuyer “A” (Belgium) 4-0 Cardiff (Wales)
The White Star (England) 2-2 Harrow Hawks “A” (England) [Goals: 6-3]
Final
AS Hennuyer “A” 2-0 The White Star
Steffen Despretz 0-0 Jeremy Bradley
Emilie Despretz 3-0 Phil Holmes
Oliver Pere 1-0 Andy Boyer
Remi Soret 2-2 Mark Farrell
Other sections
Veterans: David Busch (Austria) 5-2 Daniel Scheen (Belgium)
Under 15: 1. Corentin Boltz (Belgium), 2. Louis Soret (France)