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Portugal and Spain submit entries for Eland Cables FISTF World Cup 2024

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Portugal and Spain have entered the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup, taking to 14 the number of nations participating in Tunbridge Wells.
The biggest news is that World Number One player Carlos Flores of Spain will not contest the event due to personal reasons.
His absence changes the World Ranking Qualified players in the Open category, allowing Alberto Di Maggio (GRE) to move into the automatic place.

Portugal’s team has been bolstered by the recent nationality transfer of Max Pereira in the U12 category.
Portugal has nominated players in five of the six categories.
Manuel Santos and Ricardo José are the nominated players in the Open category, with Luis Abreu and Sérgio Loureiro as Reserves. 
José Santos and Rui Varela will contest the Veteran category, with Nuno Silva as reserve.
World number one women’s player Carolina Villarigues qualifies through the World Ranking.
Pedro Amaro will contest the U16 category. 
Max Pereira (1) and Gabriel Bento (8) qualify through the World Ranking, with Afonso Monge and Francisco Bento as the nominated players. Daniel Dias will be their reserve.
Portugal will enter a team in the Open Teams event, comprising:
Manuel Santos
Ricardo José
Luis Abreu
Sérgio Loureiro
José Santos
Rui Varela
Carolina Villarigues
They will also contest the U12 team event, comprising:
Max Pereira
Gabriel Bento
Afonso Monge
Francisco Bento
Daniel Dias.

Spain’s campaign will be spearheaded by David Somoza and Júlio Candelas in the Open category, with Xavi Maso and Jean Michel Cuenca as reserves.
In the Veteran category, Antonio Montaño and Vicenç Prats will lead the way, with Juan Carlos Granados and Luis López as reserves.
In the U20 category, Spain’s Cristian Antúnez (7) and Isaac Alfaro (11) qualify through World Ranking, with Javier Junquera Miñambres as the nominated player.
In the U16, Martí Rosa and Manuel Baena have been nominated, with Erik Moreira as reserve.
In the U12, Julià Rosa has qualified through the World Ranking, with Antonio Antúnez as the nominated player.
Spain will contest four of the Team events.
Their Open Team will comprise:
David Somoza
Júlio Candelas
Xavi Maso
Jean Michel Cuenca 
Alberto Gómez

The Veteran Team will be:
Antonio Montaño 
Vicenç Prats 
Juan Carlos Granados 
Luis López 
Ferran Coll

In the U20 category, the squad comprises:
Cristian Antúnez 
Isaac Alfaro 
Javier Junquera Miñambres 
Martí Rosa

while in the U16 category, the squad is:
Manuel Baena 
Erik Moreira 
Julià Rosa 
Antonio Antúnez

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Dimopoulos claims Major of Athens (UPDATED)

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Dimitrios Dimopoulos (Proteas Athens/GRE) claimed the last Major of the season when he overcame Bessim Golger (Bornla DC/BEL) 3-2 in the Open final. They had earlier beaten respectively Kaspar Bennett (ENG) and Georgios Vlassopoulos (Proteas/GRE) in the semi finals, 3-1 and 2-1.

Bennett

Vlassopoulos

Gerardo Patruno (Bologna Tigers/ITA) took the Veterans event, beating Periklis Dimopoulos (Proteas/GRE)  4-3 in sudden death extra time.

Semi finalists were Jason Pisan (MLT)  and Antonios Kastellanos  (Olymoia/GRE)


Portugal’s Carolina Villarigues (Dragons) took the women’s event, beating Eleftheria Papanikolaou (Glyfada/GRE) 4-0.

Carolina Villarigues

Eleftheria Papanikolaou

Panagiotis Skouros (Roligans/GRE) won the U16, beating Kostandinos Tsangouris (Lions Eugies/BEL) 4-1.

U16 Panagiotis Skouros winner

U16 Kostandinos Tsangouris finalist

 

Athanasios Kotrotsos (Roligans/GRE) beat Nikolaos Georganoudis (Scarlet Battalion/GRE) in the U12 final 2-1.

U12 Athanasios Kotrotsos winner

U12 Nikolaos Georganoudis finalist

U12 Christos Filippou semifinalist

Falcons Athens claimed the team event in a tight final against Bormla SC, winning on goals 2-1 after matches were level 1-1.

Falcons Athens

Bormla SC finalist

Crimson Horses semifinalists

Bologna Tigers Subbuteo semifinalists

 

A huge congratulations to the organisers who continued the event despite the conditions they faced.

 

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Transfer process reminder

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TRANSFER PROCESS REMINDER:

1. New club must fill in all the boxes of FORM06 downloadable on https://fistf.com/technical-pages/documents-library/ , tab “FORM”, containing the necessary information, INCLUDING THE FISTF LICENCE NUMBER.
Licence numbers can be found here by searching for the player’s name : https://fistf.com/data-centre/players-clubs/

2. New club submits FORM06 to the player’s MNA and the previous clubs (for his information). MNA contacts can be found in the Handbook, Appendix 2

3. Player’s MNA checks that all the data has been entered and sends it to the FISTF by the contact form https://fistf.com/contact/contact-fistf-for-operations-sport-calendar-rankings/

4. Following the publication of the world rankings at the beginning of August, MNAs are asked to update their respective FORM20. NOT BEFORE, PLEASE.

No transfer will be validated if the procedure is not followed. We invite you to let your members know.

Thank you !

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Players Qualified by WR for the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup

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As previously communicated to all Member nations on April 27, in addition to the nominations of MNAs, each MNA may nominate up to 2 eligible players per category, drawn from the top of the FISTF World Ranking (WR) at the end of June of the World Cup year as follows: 
i) 8 Open category players (maximum 2 players per country);
(ii) 8 Veteran category players (maximum 2 players per country);
(iii) 8 Under-20 category players (maximum 2 players per country);
(iv) 8 Under-16 category players (maximum 2 players per country);
(v) 8 Under-12 category players (maximum 2 players per country);
(vi) 8 Women players (maximum 2 players per country).

The following players marked in RED may be included in the  World Cup entry form.
FISTF retains the right to update these lists after the Registration Deadline of July 14.
If players are not nominated by their respective MNA, then FISTF will approach affected MNAs for the chance to update their entry list.
We have included the full World Ranking for the Top 20 players to show the selection of players.

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Changes to the world rankings at the end of June

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Despite the rigor and the requirement that I demonstrate, following an encoding oversight on my part for the “Under” categories for the Milan Major, the world ranking has just been updated so that the order of players qualified for the next Eland Cables FISTF World Cup in England is correct.

The changes are as follows:
U12:
Alberto Capoferri moves from 4th to 2nd position
Athanasios Kotrotsos moves from 2nd to 3rd position
Michalis Chiotis moves from 3rd to 4th position
Alberto Baratucci moves from 11th to 6th position
Apollon Dimakeas moves from 6th to 7th position
Gabriel Bento moves from 7th to 8th position

U16:
Lorenzo Fricano moves from 10th to 7th position
Angelo Bisio moves from 7th to 8th position

I apologize for my mistake.

Sébastien Scheen
FISTF Operational Secretary – Database and World Ranking Manager

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World Cup Information

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In a few months we are looking forward to welcoming the table football world to Tunbridge Wells for the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup, with the tournament held from September 21 to 22, and the official welcome function and draw on the 20th.
This is shaping as one of the best World Cups, with tremendous interest from among the FISTF Member nations, who are keen to make a pilgrimage to the home of Subbuteo.
The English Subbuteo Association has invested significant time and resources into the organising of the event, which is part of a broader four day festival celebrating the history of our game.
That involves events acknowledging Subbuteo as the foundation of modern table football, with three tournaments held on the sidelines of the FISTF event.
In 2022 the Federazione Italiana Sportiva Calcio Tavolo (FISCT) organised a tournament – “The Waddington Cup – Traditional Subbuteo” – using their own version of Traditional rules 2.2. The entry process was managed by FISTF.

This year, the event bears the title ‘2024 Subbuteo World Cup Individual Event’, and is being managed totally by the ESA, who are using the 1974 Advanced Rules and imposing an entry fee.
Subbuteo event registrations
Entry must be done directly with the ESA.
It is planned to have eight tables in action, each with different Subbuteo playing surfaces and plastic goals from different periods of Subbuteo’s history. A smaller event using original ‘flats’ figures is also planned to showcase the history.

The focus for these is for fun events to showcase the game and the community that has grown through Subbuteo and table football.
This is part of ESA’s promotional activities in cooperation with the Tunbridge Wells council, to celebrate the creation of Subbuteo by local resident Peter Adolph approximately 76 years ago. 
Tunbridge Wells Royal Victoria Place shopping centre will play host to the Subbuteo event, plus some ‘have a go’ activities.  
The aim is to create a lasting legacy for the English Subbuteo Association.
FISTF commends the initiative of the ESA.
While our focus will be on the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup at Tunbridge Wells Sport Centre, we look forward to an entertaining period across the whole period.

 

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Elliott Bellefontaine wins Derry International Open

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It was a great weekend for England international Elliott Bellefontaine who won the Derry International Open on shots 2-1 after the match finish 0-0 against Austrian Wolfgang Haas.

The Shield competition was won by Victor Jones.

Ruby Matthews also won the award of Best Junior for her excellent performance in the main event, only falling to Republic of Ireland international Mark Farrell in the last 16.

In the team event, Elstow Lions won all 5 of their matches to claim the prize.

 

 
 

 

 
 
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Brazil and Tunisia confirmed for Eland Cables FISTF World Cup 2024

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Brazil will return to the FISTF world cup for the first time in seven years when a four man team will contest the tournament.
It will also be the first time in 10 years that Brazil will take part in the teams event when they turn out at the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup 2024.
Renato Pinheiro de Souza and Fred Elesbão will take part in the Open event, with Daniel Damas de Matos as reserve.
Marcelo Lages Ramalhete will play in the Veterans individual event.
They will all combined to play in the Open teams event.
Tunisia, recently reconfirmed as a provisional FISTF member (MNA-P), will back up after appearing in Rome.
Mongi ROUIS has been entered into the Open category, with Yanis FARZA as the reserve.
MNA-Ps are entitled to one player in each category, and one reserve.
Skander FARZA will contest the Veteran category, while Yasser ROUIS will play in the U20.
They will all combine to play in the Open Teams event.

 

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Scotland and Ukraine enter for the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup

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Scotland and Ukraine have become the 9th and 10th member nations to submit entries for the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup.
Scotland will be represented in the Open Individual Category by Gareth Christie and Marco Bevilacqua, with Danny Gregory and Chad Wright as reserves.
In the Veteran Category, Steve Bennett and Tom Burns will carry the flag, with Malcolm Lees and David Baxter as reserves.
Scotland will enter teams in both the Open and Veterans categories.
The Open squad comprises:
Gareth Christie
Marco Bevilacqua
Danny Gregory
Chad Wright
Andrea Andreoni
Oriano Micheletti
Craig Thom
While the Veteran squad is:
Steve Bennett
Tom Burns
Malcolm Lees
David Baxter
Dave Gladman
John Halpin

Ukraine will be represented by Thomas Ponté in the Open category.

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