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This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
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In this week's issue...

1. Open of Naples
2. All Ireland championship
3. FISTF decision about the situation in Greece (by Janus Gersie) 4. FISTF decision about Kostas Kechris's ban (by Janus Gersie) 5. Italy: new club in Ravenna (by Alberto Amadei) 6. Portugal: new Board 7. England: Montagu Open 8. England: New baby in the FISTF family 9. FISTF awards (by Thorsten Büsing) 10. FISTF calendar 2008-2009 11. Suppliers of material 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country

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1. Open of Naples
The FISTF season started last week-end in Naples (Italy). 109 players competed in the individual tournament and many top players were present. In the Open final, Carlos Flores beat Vasco Guimaraes (2-1) while Massimo Cremona and Saverio Bari reached the semis. In the other categories, the finals were as follows:
Veterans: Severino Gara - Stefano De Francesco 0-3
U15: Andrea Manganello - Diego Tagliaferri 1-2
Ladies: Valentina Bartolini - Eleonora Buttitta 3-0
U12: Ernesto Gentile - Andrea Ciccarelli 2-0 In the team tournament, 24 squads were taking part. The guys of ASD Reggio Emilia gave no chance to the Eagles Napoli to get a home win. Flores, Bari, Cremona and Lamberti beat the Eagles 4-0 to pick up the trophy.

2. All Ireland championship
Correction: the results and pictures can be seen on the following link:
www.nitfa.org.uk

3. FISTF decision about the situation in Greece (by Janus Gersie) 1. With immediate effect PATFAP is the one and only recognised Greek association within FISTF.
2. This membership is provisional until 30 june 2010.
3. Any failure in compliance with the conditions and requirements stated in this message can lead to a
a) withdrawal of recognition or
b) prolongation of provisional membership and/or
c) fine (upper limit 500 €)
4. A complete recognition (full membership) has to be granted by the Congress in 2010.
5. PATFAP is allowed to nominate teams and players by own regulations for the WorldCup and the EuropaCup.
6. PATFAP is allowed to organize the number of tournaments like a member nation.
7. All greek players and teams - even if they are not member of PATFAP - are allowed to play in every international tournament.
8. Players/teams qualified by WorldRanking are allowed to play the WorldCup and/or the EuropaCup even if they are not member of PATFAP.
9. Due to fact that PATFAP is a legal association with an existing board FISTF will communicate with the relevant Board Member (here: President)

Conditions:
1. Send the statutes of PATFAP to FISTF (already done !) 2. Send a membership list to FISTF (Negotiator Janus Gersie) latest 15 october 2008.
3. Send membership matters (procedure of becoming a member, yearly fees,
etc.) latest 15 october 2008 to Janus Gersie.
4. Send a Statement in lieu of an oath that PATFAP BoD is as declared (on the fax FISTF received) and that every listed name has been elected (latest
15 october 2008 to Janus Gersie)

Explanatory statement:
After the succesful fusion of PATF and PATFAP to PATFAP there is a governing body for tablefootball in Greece. FISTF needs one clear communication channel and a strong association that is capable to bring forward our beloved sport. Negotiations has shown that there is a lack of reliable information and sentiments. The way FISTF has been treated was sometimes full of disrespect. Therefore FISTF only grants a provisional membership. Along the dicussions and negotiations of the last months FISTF hasn't been able to find out what's right and what's wrong in Greece. This is not a failure of FISTF but of the acting people from Greece. Summarized there are still strong doubts about the whole situation in Greece. On the other side there has to be a clear way how to calm down and smooth ruffled feathers in Greece.

4. FISTF decision about Kostas Kechris's ban (by Janus Gersie) 1. Kostas Kechris's ban will be finished per 30 september 2008.
2. As per 1 october 2008 Kostas Kechris is allowed to play international tournaments 3. A probation period of two months (until 30 november 2008) is imposed.
During this period a new failure would lead to a considerable higher ban.

Explanatory statement:
FISTF decided to give power to PATFAP as the one and only recognised association of Greece. As a sign of greatness FISTF decided now to finish the ban of Kostas Kechris. FISTF wants PATFAP and all Greek players being strongly involved in the international circuit again. FISTF hopes that this decision will lead to a development of our beloved sport in Greece and will bring forward reunification of all Greek players.

5. Italy: new club in Ravenna (by Alberto Amadei) I proudly announce that a new club is born in Italy. It's our A.S.D.
Ravenna Calcio-Tavolo 2001, called 2001 even if born in 2008 because all the players are 42 y.o. and after having founded the Subbuteo Club Ravenna in far 1981, they all come back to play in the new reality of Table-football in 2001.

6. Portugal: new Board
Jorge Silva is the new APS BoD President, Sergio Loureiro & Nuno Noronha are the Vice-presidents. Elections took place last Saturday in Campolide.
APS official contact remains at http://apssubbuteo.no.sapo.pt Jorge Silva's contact is thossa.buesing@fistf.com

10. FISTF calendar 2008-2009
20/09/2008 - Satellite in Knighton FC (WAL) - John Lauder - koutroul@hotmail.com -
27/09/2008 - Future in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - zangylos@yahoo.gr
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04-05/10/2008 - Open in Bergkamen (GER) - Thorsten Büsing - vicent.marti@telefonica.net -
11-12/10/2008 - Open in Stembert (BEL) - Sébastien Scheen - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - koutroul@hotmail.com -
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
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10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
17/01/2009 - Satellite in Rhondda Valley (WAL) - John Lauder - mike@worldtablesoccer.com - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - dlfcalciotavolo@altervista.org - dlfcalciotavolo.altervista.org
07-08/02/2009 - Satellite in Illioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
07-08/03/2009 - Major in Mons (BEL) - Olivier Père - zach.walker@fistf.com -
15/03/2008 - Satellite in Brussels (BEL) - Filip Van Hulle - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk -
04-05/04/2009 - Major in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr  -
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - no (1) -  -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi -
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

12. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

13. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - james.atkins@vertisfinance.com INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

[Hönkki]

This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
If you don't want to receive further information from FISTF, reply with "Remove" as subject.
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Players and fans are welcome to send their news to be posted in this newsletter. Former editions of this newsletter (1-222) are available by e-mail.
More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

http://www.fistf.com © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
http://www.fistf.eu © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
www.fistf.com/shop -> The FISTF shop
www.fistf.com/forum -> The FISTF forum
www.subbuteonews.com -> our partner website

Also, don't hesitate to send your pieces of news for the next issues !

In this week's issue...

1. New Board member
2. New FISTF Blog
3. Satellite of Knighton (report by Algy Taylor) 4. Dutch GP 5. German Open(by Thossa Büsing) 6. Europa Cup for clubs 7. Germany: Dominik Schulz wins the german cup (by Thossa Büsing) 8. Updated calendar for the season 2008-2009 9. Suppliers of material 10. Other tournaments 11. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
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1. New Board member
The FISTF Board has appointed Luis Filipe Horta (Portugal) as Board member "ad interim". Luis will be in charge of the communication department and will bring new ideas on how to develop communication among members. You can contact him at www.fistf.com or you can directly type www.fistf.com/news to reach the news. Contributions are more than welcome to try to publish regular updates.

3. Satellite of Knighton (report by Algy Taylor) Cardiff Bluebirds' Colin Lewis won Wales' first FISTF Satellite - held at Knighton Town Football Club - last weekend in a penalty shootout victory against teammate David Lauder.

Lewis won his group by the narrowest of margins, scoring a rare goal against David Lauder to tie the match 1-1, before beating Algy Taylor 2-1 in a closely fought game. Meanwhile, home player Tom Taylor endured a torrid time with heavy defeats against England International Martin Hodds and Scotsman Bob Ramsay.

Hodds won his group to progress directly to the semi-final, where he faced David Lauder. Lauder had struggled to see off Cypriot Paul Andreas in the barrage, but started to find his form against Hodds, notching up a 1-0 victory. The second semi-final also ended 1-0 to the Welsh player, with Colin Lewis victorious over Bob Ramsay to set up a Cardiff derby in the final.

Lewis went 1-0 up before David Lauder equalised with a second half goal.
After the goal the game petered out, and after an extremely uneventful extra time period the game went to penalties. Both players failed to score with their first three shots, but Colin Lewis eventually managed to break the deadlock and take the historic title back to Cardiff.

4. Dutch GP
The Grand Prix of the Netherlands will take place in Utrecht on February 7 & 8. The tournament website is now up and running at http://www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm

5. German Open(by Thossa Büsing)
Borussia Bergkamen is pleased to announced FISTF International Open of Germany in Bergkamen will take place at the weekend of Saturday, October 04 and Sunday, October 05 2008 at Römerberg-Sporthalle Legionärstraße 15
59192 Bergkamen-Oberaden
Note: The individual International Open will take place on the Saturday, the team event will taking place on the Sunday.
More details here: http://freenet-homepage.de/dstfb/intopen08.htm

6. Europa Cup for clubs
24 teams will be competing in the forthcoming Europa Cup for clubs in Oldham, England. Teams will be dropped in 4 groups of 6. Hereis the final list of entries:
TFC MATTERSBURG (AUT) - WR 1
ACS PERUGIA (ITA) - WR 2
CCT BLACK & BLUE 1983 GRANDUCATO – PISA (ITA) - WR 4 AS HENNUYER (BEL) - WR 5 REAL MURCIA CF (ESP) - WR 6 SC CHALEROI (BEL) - WR 9 TSC FALCONS ATHENS (GRE) - WR 11 BOLOGNA TIGERS SUBBUTEO (ITA) - WR 8 SC STEMBERT (BEL) - WR 13 ASD REGGIO EMILIA (ITA) - WR 14 FTC ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX (FRA) - WR 16 TSC ROYAL 78 KAISERMÜHLEN (AUT) - WR 17 YORKSHIRE PHEONIX (ENG) - WR 21 CARDIFF SAN SIRO (WAL) - WR 24 JSC ROCHEFORT (BEL) - WR 26 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE (ENG) - WR 28 ASOCIACIÓN TURIA FÚTBOL MESA (ESP) - WR 34 TSG RAIN 1970 (GER) - WR 39 TSPA WHITE STAR (ENG) - WR 44 HOT CLUB D'ECOSSE (SCO) - WR 45 SF SW GEMABA HITDORF (GER) - WR 49 BARCELONA FT (ESP) - WR 78 GLASGOW TSA (SCO) - WR 117 ELBEUF SC (FRA) - WR 195

7. Germany: Dominik Schulz wins the german cup (by Thossa Büsing) The German Cup took place in berlin on September 20th & 21st. New names found place in the honour winner list. The host club from Berlin, Sparta Spreeathen 74/82, beated TSG Rain 1970 (3-1) in the final. Rain was the title holder. It´s the first time this traditional german Subbuteo club wins a german team-title.
Dominik Schulz is the German Cup Winner 2008. Dominik and his teammate Dieter Sauerwein (both now from TSL Dortmund) reached the final after beating Björn Kegenbein and Marcus Tilgner (both from Berlin) in the semi-finals. In an amazing match Schulz managed to beat Sauerwein 3-2 in the extra-time (he came from behind from 0-2 five minutes before the end of the game). It´s the first time Domink Schulz wins the cup and the first time a U19 player wins the title.

8. Updated calendar for the season 2008-2009 Tournaments have been added in Denmark.
27-28/09/2008 - International Open in Pireus (GRE) - Leonidas Koutroumanos
- olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28/09/2008 - Future in Limassol (CYP) - George Zangylos - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
04-05/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - Vincent Marti - scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - koutroul@hotmail.com -
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
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10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - http://www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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14-15/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - salkbenn@supanet.com -
9/05/2009 - Open in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - christian.bluemel@octapharma.at -
09-10/05/2009 - Grand Prix & Open in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - wrkl@hotmail.com -
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - Juan Carlos Granados - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - rome-gp@blackrose98roma.com - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -

9. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

10. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

11. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg@hol.gr (new) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
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In this week's issue...

1. FISTF blog
2. FISTF Future of Frameries
3. Future of Limassol
4. Open of Pireus (by Chris Aggelinas)
5. USA: Delaware Valley Open (by Zach Walker) 6. USA: America Cup 2009 (by Zach Walker) 7. USA: Maricopa Cup R7 (by Simon Hutchinson) 8. Malta GP 9. A website for the artists 10. France: new website 11. Argentina: new club 12. Italy: S.S. Lazio football vs S.S. Lazio Table Football (by Stefano
Tagliaferri)
13. Calendar 2008-2009
14. Suppliers of material
15. Other tournaments
16. Contact person in your country

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1. FISTF blog
The correct link for the FISTF blog with FISTF shortcut is http://www.fistf.com/news.htm

2. FISTF Future of Frameries
31 players from 6 belgian clubs competed in this saturday's FISTF Future tournament of Frameries (Belgium. 15 players were dropped in the Open section while the 16 others played in the U15 section. Many surprises occured in the early rounds, in particular when Patrick Peltier (AS
Hennuyer) beat club-mate Philippe Mairesse in the quarter-final. In the semis, Peltier took the best on Renald Deloose (Templeuve) while Olivier Saffer (Rochefort) trashed Geert Leys (SC Flanders). In the final, Saffer and Peltier met for the second time of the dray. After a 1-1 draw in the group stage, the Rochefort player managed to beat the oldest player of the tournament (2-1) to win his first international title. In the U15 section, Anthony Franck (SC Flanders) was the only dutch-speaking player but he managed to beat all french-speaking players to win the title after a short victory against Quentin Wattiez (AS Hennuyer) in the final (2-1 sudden death). In the afternoon, the other categories were played. Jos Ceulemans (SC Flanders) won the veterans final against club-mate  Dirk Franck (3-0) while Jérémie Gosset (AS Hennuyer) won the U19 final on shots against Korneel Marchand (SC Flanders). Kenny De Schuyteneer (Brussels United) was clearly the strongest player in the U12 section. He beat Stephen Despretz (AS Hennuyer) on a clear 4-0 in the final. In the third part of the day, 7 teams played the team event on a knock-out format. In the final, SC Flanders managed to beat Templeuve United on goal-difference after a 2-2 draw. The SC Flanders team was formed by Jos Ceulemans, Dirk Franck, Dimitri schuermans and Geert Leys.This tournament was definately a grat day of table football for all the competitors as most players managed to play a lot of games in a friendly but competitive spirit.

3. Future of Limassol
13 players competed in the FISTF Future tournament in Limassol. This was the 4th FISTF ever on the island and definately the greatest tournament since Cuprus joined FISTF. New players took part to their first tournament and for the first time the even was played in 4 groups. After the group stage and the quarter-finals, the favorites met in the semis. Giorgos Zangylos needed a goal in the sudden death to beat Stefanos Kouratzis, a Greek player based in Cyprus, while Dimitris Parperis and George Vassiliades met in a derby between the two members of Nicosia TFC.
Vassiliades, who spends a big part of the year in California for work, won the game 2-1. In the final, Zangylos and Vassiliades couldn't make the difference after the game and the sudden death and finally, George Vassiliades took the trophy after a short victory on shots.

4. Open of Pireus (by Chris Aggelinas)
The tournament was organized mainly by the club of Pireas Lions. Several other players helped the project. The tournament was played in a luxury hall in a central hotel in the city center. In the U15 (even if most of the players are U12) we had 4 groups of 4. For now one player is by far the best but we have 3 or 4 good enough for the future. In the veterans 12 players were divided in groups of 3. Then we had the teams. 9 teams from 7 clubs were there. The home team Lions played with 3 teams and the C team was with only under 15 players. hopefully in this season we will have and an unofficial u15 team competition.
In the open we decide to proceed with the draw Saturday early in the afternoon. At this point we had 68 players. Unfortunately till Sunday morning we had some excused cancellations. The draw was published and so Sunday morning we had the dilemma either made another draw with the correct number of players (and that mean delay and possibly rumors about unfair
treatment) or keep the draw as it is with some groups of three. We decide to keep the draw as it was. The main cancellation was Triantafillou (no 4 of the tournament) and Stamatopoulos (no 17 of the tournament). Both of them were present Saturday and we accepted the excuse that they used. At the same time 18 players who didn't qualify from the groups played a plate competition. In the same competition we had one pore player who was residence in the hotel. He saw the advertisement and come to us to watch and later on he asked to play. Sunday September 28 we had the open category. Finally 61 players played in the category.
The great favorite nicos Beis (Roligans) once again was the winner in a Greek tournament. In the final he beat Spyros Hantzaras  (Falcons0 2-1.
Both of them succeed the same score in the semis 2-1 in sudden death against Giorgos Tsombanididis ans Velisarrios Fragakis (both Roligans).
The Aggelinas brothers, Dimos Tsombanidis and Lazaros Papakonstantinou completed the last eight.
At the same time in the plate competition (for those who didn't qualify from the groups) Kordantonopoulos Giannis (aek0 beat Leonidas Koutroumanos (pireas lions) in the final.

The main results:
Open final: Nikos Beis - Spyros Hantzaras 2-1
U15 final: Giannis Vlassopoulos - Dimitris Dimopoulos 5-1 Veterans final: Marcos Kapsambelis - Aggelos Tsakiris 1-3 Teams final: TSC Falcons Athens - Roligans Ilioupolis TSC 1-0

Dionisis Koutis - Dimos Tsombanidis 2-0
Spyros Hantzaras - Velissarios Fragakis 2-2 Kostas Triantafillou - Nikos Beis 2-2 George Koutis - George Tsombanidis 1-1

5. USA: Delaware Valley Open (by Zach Walker) Paul Eyes (Maryland SC) won the 2008 Delaware Valley Open (Christiana, DE,
USA) on September 28, 2008 for the 2nd time in three years after defeating Zach Walker (Washington TSL) 2-1OT in the final. This was the 1st tournament in the East Region of the 2008/09 ASA Calendar with the final results as follows:
Semi-Finals: Paul Eyes 5:2 Steve Laskey
Zach Walker 2:0 Daniel Cranston
Final: Paul Eyes 2:1OT Zach Walker
Christiana Cup Final (Consolation):
Andrew Zunino 2:0 Dewey LaRochelle
Photos of the tournament can be seen here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/daniel.cran ... eyOpen2008
Video of the tournament can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/subbuteoman
Many thanks to Andrew Zunino for his great work in organizing the tournament yet again! For more information visit http://americansubbuteo.com/index.php?o ... opic=684.0.

6. USA: America Cup 2009 (by Zach Walker) I'm happy to announce that the second ever FISTF America Cup will be held on March 7-8, 2009 in Washington D.C. This tournament will be an FISTF Continental Championship for North America. The tournament will start promptly at 9:00am each day will feature the following categories: Team, Open, U19 & Veteran.
Registration can be paid via paypal to Zach Walker at ferdy22@gmail.com or http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22/index.htm
Many thanks to Jeff Drake (SLSL) for his great work on the logo!
Hope to see you all there!

7. USA: Maricopa Cup R7 (by Simon Hutchinson) Saturday's seventh round of the Maricopa Cup saw Wayne Smith finish top of the table, saying this was some of the best Subbuteo he has ever played.
David Jensen, competing in his third tournament, caused an upset beating Kevin Nieman by a single goal. With the special Maricopa point system (win = 3, draw = 2, loss = 1) Munir Merchant finished in second place with one win and three draws. Kevin claimed third with one win and two draws. Simon Hutchinson finished in fourth, with the same number of wins and draws as Kevin, but played less games than the other players. We did shoot video during this competition, which will be added to the site when it has been edited.

Munir's third game on Saturday was his 100th. He is the eighth player in the Southern California Subbuteo Club to reach this milestone. This is all the more remarkable as he has only been playing for eight months.

More at:
http://socalsubbuteo.com/competitions/m ... round7.php
http://socalsubbuteo.com/players/munirmerchant.php

8. Malta GP
The invitation to the Malta GP is now on the tournament website at http://www.freewebs.com/maltagp2009/

9. A website for the artists
http://www.subbuteoartist.com/index.htm has been updated with a lot of fantastic paintings. It's the first dedicated website to showcase all the best Handpainted subbuteo figures in the World! Why not send them your handy work and see it represented here with the best around?

10. France: new website
FTC Issy has a new website at http://www.ftcissy.fr/

11. Argentina: new club
The players group from Buenos Aires has finally stared an official club called Buenos Aires Table Soccer Club and theit site is as follows:
www.batsclub.com

12. Italy: S.S. Lazio football vs S.S. Lazio Table Football (by Stefano
Tagliaferri)
On Wednesday October, 15th S.S. Lazio Football players with their captain Tommaso Rocchi will join the players from S.S. Lazio Table Football in a great celebration of Diego Tagliaferri and Micael Caviglia's respectively golden and bronze medals achieved at the last FISTF table football World Championship in Wien. A white and blue happening that will host all our young players (and those who are less young too...) in a truly unforgettable afternoon ... who knows what surprises the matches between Rocchi and Tagliarri, or Pandev and Caviglia as well as all the others will bring about? It for sure will be an afternoon of great "lazialityness", great fun, great football and table football!!!

13. Calendar 2008-2009
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - Massimo Bolognino - www.internationalopenofnaples.eu
14/09/2008 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - wrkl@hotmail.com -
27-28/09/2008 - International Open in Pireus (GRE) - Leonidas Koutroumanos
- olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28/09/2008 - Future in Limassol (CYP) - George Zangylos - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
04-05/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - Vincent Marti - scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - koutroul@hotmail.com -
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
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10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - salkbenn@supanet.com -
9/05/2009 - Open in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - christian.bluemel@octapharma.at -
09-10/05/2009 - Grand Prix & Open in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - wrkl@hotmail.com -
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - Juan Carlos Granados - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - rome-gp@blackrose98roma.com - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

14. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

15. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

16. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg@hol.gr (new) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

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In this week's issue...

1. Valéry Dejardin wins in Germany
2. Vasco Guimaraes wins in Mislata
3. FISTF awards
4. E-mail addresses
5. www.flickabout.com
6. Satellite of Cagliari
7. Scottish circuit: event n° 2 (by Mike Burns) 8. Calendar 2008-2009 9. Suppliers of material 10. Other tournaments 11. Contact person in your country

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1. Valéry Dejardin wins in Germany
55 players attended the International Open of Germany held this week-end in Bergkamen. Players from Italy, France, Austria, the Netherlandsand Belgiumwere among the guests of the german hosts and many intersting games took part over the week-end. In the Open category, David Leroy was the surprising man of the day as he managed to beat the world champion, Eric Verhagen, 4-2 inan amazing quarter-final. Leroy couldn't make it to the final as he lost to his club mate Valéry Dejardin in the semi. Dejardin later won the final on a clear 3-0 against Maikel de Haas from the Netherlands. In the other categories the winners were Dominik Schulz (U19), Jovi Willeijns (U15), Kai Hagenkötter (U12), René Bolte (Veterans) and Victoria Büsing (Ladies). In the Team event, SC Stembert from Belgiumtook the honors after they beat the Austrians of TFC Wiener Neustadt (3-0).
Pascal Scheen was playing in the Stembert team for the first time in more than 3 years and he won his game against Christian Blümel in the final.

2. Vasco Guimaraes wins in Mislata
The 19th tournament of Mislata, Spain was played last week-end. The first international Open of the spanish season attracted 39 players, including 6 foreign players. In the team event, only 4 teams were present and the local team of Turia won the group stage. In the categories, Juan Carlos Granados from Murcia took the honors after beating José Léon in the final (5-1).
It's already Granados's 6th victory in an Open for Veterans. Juan Noguera beat José AG Ros (2-1) in the final of the U19 section.
In the Open category, players were dropped in 13 groups. The top 4 seeded players met in the semis and the top 2 qualified for the finals as Carlos Flores beat Raúl Benita (4-1) while Vasco Guimaraes beat Vicenç Prats Salas (4-0). In the final, Vasco Guimaraes from Portugal beat Carlos Flores on a single goal (1-0). Vasco wins already his 7th title in an International Open.
Results:
http://www.futboldemesa.com/afm/index.p ... &Itemid=28

3. FISTF awards
The votings for the 3rd quarter can be send in by email to luis.horta@fistf.com and the FISTF disciplinary council at www.flickabout.com
www.flickabout.com is now available in english with an interview to Mark Adolph and Pete Whitehead!

6. Satellite of Cagliari
The tournament website is www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net and the contact person for the event is Luca Licheri at scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - koutroul@hotmail.com -
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
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10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -

9. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

10. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

11. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg@hol.gr (new) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
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In this week's issue...

1. Open of Stembert
2. Italy: Super 9 Firenze 11-12 Ottobre
3. New link for material
4. Satellite in Canada
5. Grand Prix of Belgium in Brussels
6. Austrian league (by Heinz Eder)
7. Argentina: San Marino wins in Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) 8. Belgian league kick-off 9. Calendar 2008-2009 10. Suppliers of material 11. Other tournaments 12. Contact person in your country

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1. Open of Stembert
The Austrians of Mattersburg gave no chance to anyone to beat them in this year's FISTF Open of Stembert. 17 teams were competing and many of them had a very strong squad but the final was just another game between Mattersburg
(Austria) and Perugia(Italy). In this game, only Fabio Belloni managed to draw with Eric Verhagen while the three other Mattersburg players won their games. Markus Matzinger defeated Stefano De Francesco (1-0) while Erich Hinkelmann beat Martijn Bom (3-1) and Wolfgang Leitner took the best on Arturo Martínez (3-2). Some of the other top teams had disappointing results. SC Charleroi didn't pass the first round. The 4th top seed had only 3 players in Stembert and Charleroiended 3rd in a group of 4 after 2 defeats against SC Verviers and TFC Mattersburg B. Despite the presence of teams from 5 countries, the host nation managed to put 2 teams in the semi-finals. SC Stembert lost 3-1 to Mattersburg while Rochefort lost on a single goal (8 to 9) to Perugiaafter a 1-1 draw.

Open category
Valéry Dejardin was on fire on sunday when winning the first edition of the Stembert Open. The young player from Rochefort was the only one to prevent the Mattersburg squad to make a perfect week-end as he beat Karl-Heinz Haider in quarter-final (3-1) before winning against Markus Matzinger in the semi (on shots after a 2-2 draw) and Wolfgang Leitner in the final (2-1). Dejardin wins his senond tournament in a row, one week after winning the open of Bergkamen (Germany) and one month after winning the national tournament of Verviers. The other highlights of the tournaments were as
follows:
- Eric Verhagen's large victory on David Leroy in the last 16 round (9-0).
A week before, Leroy had beaten Verhegn in the quarter-final of the Open of Bergkamen.
- Wolfgang Leitner's win on Eric Verhagen in the semi-final. This was a rematch of the last world cup's semi-final. But now both players are clubmates.
- Markus Matzinger's come-back. After a short break, MArkus provd to be a very strong player again.
- 51 players were taking part in the Open category. Philippe Hipfinger (7) and Axel Donval (8) were the only seeded players to be out in the first round.

The ladies
6 of the world's top 10 players attended the Open of Stembert on Sunday.
The tournament (with 12 players from 3 nations) was really interesting and the level of the competition was high. In the group stage, Françoise Guyot
(n°1) and Elodie Bertholet (n°2) managed to end first of their groups but the other two seeds had more difficult moments than expected. Magali Doumont (n°4) ended in second position in a though group with Arielle Guyot and Audrey Herbaut while Victoria Büsing (n°6) drew both games against Sylvie Guyot and Annick Fraikin-Poncelet. In the quarter-finals, Céline Grandmougin had a though group but finally beat Sylvie Guyot on a single goal (3-2) before meeting Françoise Guyot in the semi. The world number 1 won her semi on a close 2-1 while Elodie Bertholet, the only Belgian in the last 4, equalized in the last 30 seconds before scoring a golden goal to beat Arielle Guyot. In the final, François Guyot scored an early goal but couldn't make the difference before the 18th minute. When the score moves to 2-0, Bertholet put Guyot under pressure but the french girl scored three other goals on counter-attacks to win the final on a clear 5-1.

The youth
Two of the rising stars in the FISTF circuit won another tournament this week-end in Stembert. In the U19 section, Jerrel Van Keimpema from the Netherlands proved he's one of the most talented players in the category after winning the final against Michaël Denooz (Belgium) on a clear 5-2. In the U15 tournament, Antonio De Francesco from Italy won the tournament after beating his last 2 opponents on the same score. In th semi, Stefano's son beat Bryan Spiroux 2-1 before beating Jérémie Gosset (2-1) in the final. In the U12 section, only 3 players were taking part and Keny De Schuyteneer beat brother Bryan on an amazing score of 7-6.

The veterans
Stefano De Francesco won the re-match of the world cup final against Martijn Bom. Both players met a couple of times in the last few months but this time, the situationw as very different as both players now play for the same club of ACS Perugia. If Bom is the reigning world champion, De Francesco won the Stembert Open final on a clear 5-0. The level of the tournament was quite interesting with 24 different players from 6 countries. Some "younger" veterans like Jean-Pierre Genart and Richard Boulanger were playing their first competition in this category while Alphonse Paulis, a former belgian international (in the early 80's) was playing his first big tournament for years. The only surprise in the group stage was Charles Goset's victory on Thorsten Büsing to take the group's first stage but in the barrage round, Büsing managed to qualify for the quarter-finals. Finally, René Bolte and Erich Hinkelmann also managed to reach the semi-finals but Bom and De Francesco were really too strong this sunday.

2. Italy: Super 9 Firenze 11-12 Ottobre
Here are the winners of the national tournament held in Firenze last week-end.
Team - ACSPerugia 1973
Open - Simone bertelli (Pisa)
Veteran - Massimiliano Schiavone (Bari)
U19 - Niccolò Stefanucci (Spezia)
U15 - Diego tagliaferri (Lazio)
U12 - Paolo zambello (Pierce 14)
There are pictures at http://subbuteocollection.forumfree.net/?t=32956250

3. New link for material
Steven Laskey (from the US) is selling teams, bases and base decals at http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases

4. Satellite in Canada
There will be a Satellite in Truro, Nova Scozia on November 29. Details are available from Gary Caven at www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm

5. Grand Prix of Belgium in Brussels
The updated list of entries can be found at http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/ or from the Brussels club website at http://www.brussels-sc.be

6. Austrian league (by Heinz Eder)
National Championship Day 1 - The new season started in Austria with the 1st day of the national championships on 14th of october. There are 3 leagues of 8 players and they play twice against each other. The results and standings after the 1st day are as follows:

1st league Table:
1. LEITNER Wolfgang 9 pts
2. HINKELMANN Erich 7 pts
3. KORZIL Thorsten 6 pts
4. PAWLICA Manfred 4 pts
5. BUSCH David 3 pts
6. HAIDER Karl-Heinz 3 pts
7. BLÜMEL Christian 3 pts
8. MANDL Gerhard 0 pt

2nd league Table:
1. EDER Heinz 9 pts
2. BAMBERZKY Günther 9 pts
3. HAAS Christian 6 pts
4. HAAS Alexander 6 pts
5. KARNTHALER Thomas 3 pts
6. LIZAR Jürgen 1 pt
7. EXLER Thomas 1 pt
8. EXLER Günter 0 pt

3rd league Table:
1. ZEILINGER Patrick 9 pts
2. SANDNER Stefan 9 pts
3. KLEIN Ronny 5 pts
4. KARNER Rene 5 pts
5. LIZAR Alexander 4 pts
6. PUNTIGAM Bernhard 3 pts
7. WURST Herbert 1 pt
8. HAIDER Manuel 0 pt

7. Argentina: San Marino wins in Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) Rosario, October 2008- It's over! After a nine-months competition, the first edition of the "Serie A Rosario" is over. In the new place of the Asociación Subbuteo Rosario 2008 the last match was played between Boca Juniors and San Marino. On the first half San Marino scored one goal making the "goleada" on the second half: 5-0, until Boca Juniors could score its only goal, on a penalty kick.
9 months, 14 players, 26 rounds, 182 matches (in a home-and-away double match "everyone-against-everyone" tournament), 460 goals scored: we doubt whether something similar has ever been played evereywhere!
Excelent work of the Directory Committee of ASR08, which organized the prize-giving ceremony by inviting all 14 participants to the tournament, along with their families and journalists. San Marino (Claudio Miscia) took the golden medal, in addition to the official association shield, which he won the right to carry sewn on his shirt during next sporting season. Plate medal for Milan (Gustavo Di Giannantonio) and bronze to Roma (Benedetto Colarossi). In the categories; Claudio Miscia won the Veterans' medal, Marco Miscia (Fiorentina) the Under 12 one, Gustavo Di Giannantonio the residual "mixed group".
As for the ASR08 statutes, the final placing table also defines the official team of the Association for next season: Claudio Miscia (captain), Gustavo Di Giannantonio, Benedetto Colarossi, Marco Miscia and, as a reserve, Fabrizio Castello (Newell's Old Boys). All the 5 also automatically qualify to the next Serie A, together with the 6th, Cosimo Muci (Lecce). All other players will have to play qualifying games after the Rosario Cup (October 25th) to get the 4 free places in the Serie A.
Next year, in order to have all willing players on the field, a second division, Serie B, will be organized as well.
San Marino campeon rosarino 2008Among guests of the match, there also were
journalists: San Marino-Boca Juniors (Paolo Ferrara) has been observed by Radio Corazón and the best spots were put on the air on next Sunday; and -as San Marino is the name of a quarter in town Funes, where Claudio Miscia
plays- an article celebrating the victory came out on Funes newspaper "La Verdad Funense". San Marino dominated the Serie A 2008, winning 22 matches and drawing 4, with no lost matches; it scored 69 goals (best attack) and only took 10 (best defence). Nevertheless, the greatest "goleada" was the 7-0 scored by Newell's Old Boys against Ascoli (Roberto Rosati) at the 22nd round.
Results, pictures, statistics, prizes awarded on the first Serie A Rosario, as well as many videos of goals scored, are published on the Association's
site: www.asr08.com.ar

8. Belgian league kick-off
The belgian league for teams starts this saturday in Grimbergen, near Brussels. Last year 16 teams were competiting (9 in division 1, 7 in division 2). Magic Team Tournai, relegated in division 1, decided not to field a team anymore but three new teams joined the league: SC Stembert 3, SC Flanders 2 and SC Verviers 2. Therefore there will be 2 divisions of 9 teams. The league will be played in 4 days: Grimbergen (October 18), Verviers (November 15), Templeuve (January 17) and Brussels (March 21).
SC Charleroi remains one of the top favorites for the title but AS Hennuyer, Stembert and Rochefort will be strong outsiders.
The field in Division 1: Stembert, Charleroi, Verviers, Templeuve, Rochefort, AS Hennuyer, SC Flanders, Temploux, Brussels SC.
The field in Division 2: Stembert B, Charleroi B, Verviers B, Jambes, Rochefort B, Stembert C, SC Flanders B, Temploux B, Brussels SC B.

9. Calendar 2008-2009
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - Massimo Bolognino - www.internationalopenofnaples.eu
14/09/2008 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - wrkl@hotmail.com -
27-28/09/2008 - International Open in Pireus (GRE) - Leonidas Koutroumanos
- olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28/09/2008 - Future in Limassol (CYP) - George Zangylos - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
04-05/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - Vincent Marti - scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - koutroul@hotmail.com -
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - gcaven@gmail.com - www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
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10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

10. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

11. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

12. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

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his is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
If you don't want to receive further information from FISTF, reply with "Remove" as subject.
If some of your friends want to receive the FISTF news, they can drop me a line and I will add them to my distribution list.
Players and fans are welcome to send their news to be posted in this newsletter. Former editions of this newsletter (1-226) are available by e-mail.
More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

http://www.fistf.com © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
http://www.fistf.eu © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
www.fistf.com/shop -> The FISTF shop
www.fistf.com/forum -> The FISTF forum
www.subbuteonews.com -> our partner website

Also, don't hesitate to send your pieces of news for the next issues !

In this week's issue...

1. Europa Cup for clubs
2. Maltese season kicks-off
3. T-shirt shop at King Baudouin Stadium 4. USA: Golden Spike Invitational 2008 5. Japan first tournament soon?
6. Argentina: 2nd Copa Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) 7. Finland: Alcatraz-tournament in periphery (by Kari Hakkarainen) 8. Northern Ireland: Dunmurry National Open (by Eoin Adams) 9. USA: Maricoba Cup R8 (by Simon Hutchinson) 10. Calendar 2008-2009 11. Suppliers of material 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: http://www.fistf.com/forum Visit the FISTF blog: http://www.fistf.com/news.htm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Europa Cup for clubs
Black and Blue Pisa make the double: 24 teams competed in this year's europa Cup in Oldham, England. If many surprises happened over the week-end, the issue of the week-end was not really surprising as the boys from Pisa (Italy) lifted the trophy for the second time in a row. The Italians beat the spanish team of Real Murcia on a clear 3-1 in the final.
Semi-finalists were rather unexpected teams. Bologna lost to Pisa while the Belgians of SC Stembert lost in the sudden death to Real Murcia. More details are available from the FISTF blog and the tournament website.

2. Maltese season kicks-off
The first tournament of the maltese season took place last week with 28 players taking part. 13 players were competing in the open category and int he semi-finals, Mark Gauci beat Massimo Cremona on a easy 3-0 while Hansel Mallia beat Charles Aquilina (2-0). In the final, Gauci took the best on Mallia and won the game (2-0). Other winners were Angelo Borg (U19), Darren Bezzina (U15) and Joe Mifsud (veterans).
Full report at
http://www.maltasport.com/modules/smart ... temid=2859

3. T-shirt shop at King Baudouin Stadium A new company selling subbuteo t-shirts will have a special shop during the Brussels Grand Prix 2008.
Link for orders: www.annugraphik.be/shirtshop

4. USA: Golden Spike Invitational 2008
The 2008 Golden Spike Invitational was retained by the 2007 Champion, Eric Garza. The tournament had 6 players, 4 from BUSL95 and 2 from Utah Mother Flickers. Garza defeated BUSL95 teammate Lenny Foster 4-3 on shots in the final after a 2-2 tie in regulation. Both Garza and Foster topped their groups going into the semifinals. BUSL95's Jonathan Smith and Eddy McLane bowed out in the semifinals, with Utah MF's Brian and Paul Barnes both failing to make it out of the group stage.

5. Japan first tournament soon?
Kenzo Koi, our contact person in Japan, is thinking about organizing a first tournament in Yokohama. Interested players can drop him a line at www.asr08.com.ar

7. Finland: Alcatraz-tournament in periphery (by Kari Hakkarainen) One of our Finnish Championship ranking -tournaments (with FISTF-rules) was held in an rather exotic place, about 300 km north from Helsinki in a small village called Naaraji. The venue was located in the middle of forest right next to a beautiful lake - and the local jailhouse. Only 8 players participated, but we had some exiciting games and good time anyhow. After the games we went to sauna, swam in the 5 celsius degree water, have some drinks and sang some karaoke. Finnish madness ? Probably. No criminals were involved and we didn't see any jailbreaks. Maybe next time The final was between Sisu TFC players: Teemu Sihvola - Juho Sihvola 5-1 Full results: http://www.subu.fi/smkisat/SM-ranking_FISTF_251008.htm
Our next tournament with FISTF-rules will be on 15th of November. Then we'll decide who will be the Finnish champion 2008

8. Northern Ireland: Dunmurry National Open (by Eoin Adams) The 2008 Dunmurry Open will take place in the Kings Way Church, Kingsway, Dunmurry on Saturday 22nd November. (10.00am flickoff). Categories: Youth (U19), Open, Veteran.
There will also be a plate competition for all players eliminated at the group stage of the Open category. Games will be 20 minutes in length and played to FISTF regulations. The veterans event will be straight knockout, allowing all veterans to also take part in the Open category. Can anyone interested in attending this event please contact me at http://socalsubbuteo.com/competitions/maricopacup2008/
Maricopa Cup Round 8 ->
http://socalsubbuteo.com/competitions/m ... round8.php

10. Calendar 2008-2009
01-02/11/2008 - Satellite in Pireus (GRE) - Leonidas Koutroumanos - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - gcaven@gmail.com - www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
-
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

11. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

12. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

13. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

[Hönkki]

This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
If you don't want to receive further information from FISTF, reply with "Remove" as subject.
If some of your friends want to receive the FISTF news, they can drop me a line and I will add them to my distribution list.
Players and fans are welcome to send their news to be posted in this newsletter. Former editions of this newsletter (1-228) are available by e-mail.
More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

http://www.fistf.com © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
http://www.fistf.eu © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
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www.fistf.com/forum -> The FISTF forum
www.subbuteonews.com -> our partner website

Also, don't hesitate to send your pieces of news for the next issues !

In this week's issue...

1. A first title for Prantsoudis
2. Subbuteo rugby (by Flavio Firmo)
3. STOP PRESS: Streaker Arrested at Subbuteo Match (by Paul Willetts) 4. Northern Ireland: Dunmurry National Open 5. New pages on the FISTF website 6. Calendar 2008-2009 7. Suppliers of material 8. Other tournaments 9. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: http://www.fistf.com/forum Visit the FISTF blog: http://www.fistf.com/news.htm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. A first title for Prantsoudis
Evrepidis Prantsoudis (Atlas Glyfada) won the first Satellite of the greek season held in Pireus. 29 players were competing in the Open category (48 players in total) and Prantsoudis defeated Dimitris Patrinos (Olympia) on a close 2-1 in the final. Among the 8 veterans in competition, Kostas Kechris
(Olympia) took the best on Giorgos Aggelinas to win the final (2-1) while Nikiforos Karatarakis (Pireas Lions) defeated young brother Giorgos Karatarakis in the U15 tournament (2-1). In the team event, six teams were competing and Olympia won the final on goal-average aginst Atlas Glyfada after a 2-2 draw.

2. Subbuteo rugby (by Flavio Firmo)
In Italy, a group of fans is still building an interesting Rugby experience. If you watch www.subbuteorugby.tk you catch some ideas about us. Not so many people in Europe are playint but many subbuteo players love rugby. Interested players can join our movement by contacting Flavio Firmo at http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h ... &x=16&y=24

4. Northern Ireland: Dunmurry National Open This event has now been moved back to Saturday 29th November, due to unavailability of the hall for the earlier date. Contact: Eoin Adams at www.fistf.com There are more links to contact all FISTF volunteers and pages are udner construction for all FISTF nations. Pages are already published for a few countries (Belgium, Austria, Germany,...) and many more will be added by the webmaster in the next few hours. If you see some corrections to add, don't hesitate to contact me.

6. Calendar 2008-2009
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - gcaven@gmail.com - www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
-
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
-
07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

7. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

8. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

9. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

[Hönkki]

This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
If you don't want to receive further information from FISTF, reply with "Remove" as subject.
If some of your friends want to receive the FISTF news, they can drop me a line and I will add them to my distribution list.
Players and fans are welcome to send their news to be posted in this newsletter. Former editions of this newsletter (1-229) are available by e-mail.
More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

http://www.fistf.com © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
http://www.fistf.eu © 2006 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TABLE FOOTBALL.
All Rights Reserved.
www.fistf.com/shop -> The FISTF shop
www.fistf.com/forum -> The FISTF forum
www.subbuteonews.com -> our partner website

Also, don't hesitate to send your pieces of news for the next issues !

In this week's issue...

1. New pages on the FISTF website
2. First tournament in Japan
3. Italian, Belgian and Dutch share the trophies in Brussels (by Philippe
Hipfinger)
4. A moment of full emotion during the GP of Brussels (by Philippe
Hipfinger)
5. Utrecht Grand Prix
6. Open of Buenos Aires
7. National tournament of de Boissy-Saint-Léger 8. South Africa: Johannesburg Table Football Club merges with Panorama Sports Club (by Jason Kennedy) 9. USA: California State Championship (by Simon Hutchinson) 10. Calendar 2008-2009 11. Suppliers of material 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: http://www.fistf.com/forum Visit the FISTF blog: http://www.fistf.com/news.htm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. New pages on the FISTF website
A few days ago the FISTF website (www.fistf.com) added a new section with all the details of the different national associations. When on the main page, click on "organisation" (top of the page, left side) and check if the datas about your association are OK. If you see mistakes or if the page of your country doesn't appear, please let us know so that we can correct and improve every page. We hope to get feedback from the different national associations and playerts to improve the official website.

2. First tournament in Japan
The first FISTF tournament in Japan will be held in Yokohama on January 31st. The details for the Satellite tournament are available from Kenzou Koui at http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html

3. Italian, Belgian and Dutch share the trophies in Brussels (by Philippe
Hipfinger)
Valéry Dejardin strikes again at the GP of Brussels The GP of Brussels was played last weekend in the hall of honour of King Baudouin Stadium and the organizers knew that this prestigious venue could attract the medias.  A few invitations were sent to them and the least we can say, is that the result of these efforts paid off! The top news was the presence of Luc Matton, well known sport reporter of RTL Tvi on the Saturday! Their report with interview of Laurent Coucke and Valery Dejardin was broadcasted on the 19h00 news which is seen by hundreds of thousand of people!  On Sunday the local flemish TV Brussel was also present and RTBF Radio also covered the event by making interviews of Franz and Philippe Hipfinger as well as Laurent Coucke. In the newspaper "La Capitale" a few articles could be found as well!

Well, this was for the press coverage, but a GP was also played on both days, and on Saturday the team of Stella Artois Milano was the best among the 26 registered ones! The Italians beat in the final the number One ranked team in the World, the Austrians of TFC Mattersburg.  SC Charleroi and the Torino Warriors were the semi-finalists!   On Sunday, the individual competition was played and 153 players showed up!  In the Open Category, the first surprise was the elimination of Gil Delogne as early as in the last 32. Gil who expected to achieve a great result in his hometown club was very disappointed to lose against ex teammate Robbert Lenz.
Robbert Lenz lost finally in the quarters to Sami Targui and in the semi final 3 belgian players were present!  Christophe Dheur from SC Stembert played a huge match at this stage and knocked out World Champion Eric Verhagen!  Valery Dejardin beat the winner of the Major of Mons, Sami Targui in the other semi final and went on to beat "titeuf" in the final.
Valery Dejardin won already his third FISTF tournament of the new season!
At the Masters of Madrid in less than 2 weeks, he will certainly be one of the man to watch! In the Veteran Category, World Champion Martijn Bom kept his title and beat the Maltese Jo Mifsud in the final! For the Maltese player, it was his first ever participation in a Veteran Competition!
Frédéric Perdaens, the World Ranking Officer, made a come back after a break of 3 years and a half and accomplished a great result by reaching the quarter final in such a strong competition!  In the U19 competition, the 2 favourites reached the final and Jerrel Van Keimpema beat German Dominik Schulz 2-1.  The young Dutch from Mvv Rijnmond showed again that he is one of the player who improved the most in the recent year.  In the U15 Category, it was a all italian final between the 2 players from Lazio Roma, and Diego Tagliaferri defeated Micael Caviglia. And in the Ladies, it was a all belgian final, dominated by Elodie Bertholet from Templeuve against Magali Doumont from SC Temploux!
To be noted that even if Brussels seems to be a popular tournament, it won't be in the FISTF calender in 2009-2010.

4. A moment of full emotion during the GP of Brussels (by Philippe
Hipfinger)
To celebrate its 40 years of existence, the club of Brussels SC was looking to make something special. After mature consideration, the best thing the club could do, was to honour Franz Hipfinger. Franz discovered the subbuteo thanks to his best friend Jean-Pierre Dejoncker in 1960. From that moment on, he never stopped to play but mostly never stop to organize competitions, write reports and revues, look for new players,...Franz Hipfinger has been president of the belgian Federation during many years and was also partof the FISTF Board in its early days. It was time to pay tribute for all his hardwork during almost a half of century! Frédéric Perdaens, who was member of the Brussels SC a long time ago, was invited to give this hommage to Franz and gave him the cup of the fair-play and a travel voucher for his next holidays as a well deserved surprised present!

5. Utrecht Grand Prix
The invitation file for the tournament is now available at http://www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm French version: http://www.uscutrecht.nl/gpfr.htm

6. Open of Buenos Aires
All details are now available on the tournament website at www.futboldemesa.com.ar

7. National tournament of de Boissy-Saint-Léger This tournament was held last sunday. Eric Naszalyi beat Marc Guyot 3-1 in the final. Olivier bastin and Thomas Ponté reached the semis. Sylvie Guyot beat Céline Grandmougin in the ladies section while Paul Naszalyi beat Lucie Le Téno (1-0) in the U12 tournament.

8. South Africa: Johannesburg Table Football Club merges with Panorama Sports Club (by Jason Kennedy) Due to the growth and rebirth of table football in South Africa, a decision was made by the Westrand arm of The Johannesburg table football club to merge with one of the largest amateur football clubs in South Africa, namely Panorama Sports Club. The club boasts great facilities and is very central for our current members and new 2009 members to join. Hall, bar, toilets, full kitchen, covered outside area and parking. Panorama's football section has 500 + players from Under 6 to veterans and many youngsters and senior players/ parents will be and have already shown an interest in joining our ever growing table football club.

9. USA: California State Championship (by Simon Hutchinson) Sunday was the second annual California State Championship, hosted by the Southern California Subbuteo Club.  Kevin Nieman reached his first major final beating second seed, Steve Tucker, in the semi final.  Wayne Smith beat Kevin in the final to retain the title he won last year. Edward Nathan won the Mission Trophy, with Dominic Hutchinson losing in the final for the second year in a row. The Under 19 Sierra Trophy final was a repeat of last year's final. This year Adam Carlson beat Dominic Hutchinson by a single goal, in the best game these two players have played against each other.
All of the results and a detailed report can be found here -> http://socalsubbuteo.com/competitions/calstate2008.php

10. Calendar 2008-2009
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - gcaven@gmail.com - www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr
-
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JAP) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
-
07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

11. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

12. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

13. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

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In this week's issue...

1. FISTF Masters
2. Major of amsterdam
3. Italian cup (from www.subbuteonews.com) 4. Dutch circuit 5. Germany: Herbstcup 2008 6. England: Salisbury Open 7. A Future in Ontario 8. Finland: Marko Karhunen is the new champion in Finland 9. Belgium: AS Hennuyer on top of the belgian league 10. Calendar 2008-2009 11. Suppliers of material 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country

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1. FISTF Masters
The FISTF World Masters will be held this saturday in Madrid (Spain). Due to the late forfait of Chris Thomas, Massimo Bolognino has accepted to replace him. The 12 players for the Masters are then Eric Verhagen, Daniele Bertelli, Carlos Flores, Wolfgang Leitner, Kasper Bennett, Saverio Bari, Vasco Guimaraes, Simone Bertelli, Sergio Loureiro, Massimiliano Nastasi, Valéry Dejardin and Massimo Bolognino.

2. Major of amsterdam
The link for the tournament is www.amsterdam-tournament.nl

3. Italian cup (from www.subbuteonews.com) The club of ACS Perugia (Ita) was the teams event winner in Chianciano Terme where in the final match beat Reggiana (Ita) with close score 2-1
(7-7 goals). Perugia has now 5 trophies of Coppa Italia. At open category, Saverio Bari (Reggio Emilia) lift the trophy for second time in his career, where in final he beat the «veteran» Stefano De Francesco (Perugia).
Massimo Bolognino (Napoli) and Stefano Buono (Perugia) reached the semis.

4. Dutch circuit
Jerrel Van Keimpema won the 2nd tournament of the dutch circuit. Paul brinker is 2nd and Jacob Bijlstra is 3rd.

5. Germany: Herbstcup 2008
10 players attended this tournament held last week-end. Thomas Winkler (BSC
Schwalbach) beat Rainer Vogt (BSC Schwalbach) 3-1 in the final.

6. England: Salisbury Open
England captain Dave Pawsey won the Salisbury Open on Sunday 16th November, which was making a welcome return to the English circuit and expertly organised by Cyril Mitchener. Eleven players took part, and everyone got plenty of competitive games, as is always the theme of the English circuit events. The players were split into groups of 6 and 5. The final was the tournament favourite Pawsey against more surprising finalist Richard Pepper. Pawsey took a deathgrip on the match with a 3-0 lead before Pepper scored a late consolation goal, Pawsey winning 3-1, the first goal he had conceded all day!

7. A Future in Ontario
The small town of Frankford (Ontario) will hold the 2nd FISTF tournament of the canadian circuit this season. The event will be held on December 19.
Interested players can contact Steve Whitehead at http://home.cogeco.ca/~romanada/Eomsl/Eomsl_main.htm

8. Finland: Marko Karhunen is the new champion in Finland 20 players competed in the national championship held in Porvoo (50 km East of Helsinki), which is a rather new city in the national table football map. The Open final was between two experienced players, Marko Karhunen and Teemu Sihvola. Karhunen finally won the game (2-0) to get his very first national title. Int he game for the third place, Juho Sihvola defeated Jani Mustonen. 4 other players competed in the very first national championship for veterans. Kari Hakkarainen managed to win the title. Full results are available at http://www.subu.fi/smkisat/SM2008_FISTF_151108.htm

9. Belgium: AS Hennuyer on top of the belgian league Many surprises occured in the second day of the belgian league, held last saturday in Verviers. The team of Charleroi showed up with only 3 players and lost the top game of the day again Stembert. Stembert could have taken a good option for the title but they lost against AS Hennuyer in another top game. The ASH team had a great time with individual victories of Delphine Dieudonné on Christophe Dheur, Fabian Brau on David Fraikin and Nathan Dupont on Sébastien Scheen. Finally, after 8 games, AS Hennuyer is now on top of the table with 19 points while Charleroi and Stembert have 17, Rochefort 14, Brussels and Verviers 11, Temploux 8, SC Flanders 3 and Templeuve 0.
In division 2, Rochefort B didn't manage to keep the leadership. The team from the South of Belgium lost 2 of their 4 games (against Stembert B and Temploux B) and SC Stembert B is now leading the table with 21 points while Temploux B has 17, Charleroi B and Rochefort B 16, Brussels B 10, Stembert C and Jambes 9, SC Flanders B 3 and SC Verviers B 0.

10. Calendar 2008-2009
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - gcaven@gmail.com - www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul Eyes - comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - swhitehead@cogeco.ca - http://home.cogeco.ca/~romanada/Eomsl/Eomsl_main.htm
20-21/12/2008 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - jadot_benoit@yahoo.fr -
10-11/01/2009 - Satellite in Ciampino (Roma) (ITA) - Antonello Rodriquez - johnny_reb@ntlworld.com -
17/01/2009 - Satellite in Rhondda Valley (WAL) - John Lauder - mike@worldtablesoccer.com - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JPN) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
-
07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

11. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

12. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

13. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

[Hönkki]

This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
If you don't want to receive further information from FISTF, reply with "Remove" as subject.
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In this week's issue...

1. FISTF Masters in Madrid
2. Total soccer launch and table football marathon 3. Challenger of Frameries 4. Scotland: A future player is born 5. Greece: Greek league for clubs (by Chris Aggelinas) 6. France: Beauzelle GP 7. Italy: Christmas tournament in Milan 8. USA: New club 9. Calendar 2008-2009 10. Suppliers of material 11. Other tournaments 12. Contact person in your country

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1. FISTF Masters in Madrid
The 6th FISTF World Masters tournament was held last week-end in Madrid (Spain). 12 of the world's top players were competing in a great spirit and with a lot of positive energy. Many games were close and in the group stage, nobody really managed to be on top. Both Massimiliano nastasi and Simone Berteli came on top of their groups with 9 points (2 wins and 2
draws) while Valéry Dejardin, 3rd of group, was out of the event without having lost any single game. In the semi-finals, Bertelli beat Carlos Flores on shots after a 0-0 draw while Massimiliano nastasi beat current world number 1 Eric Verhagen on a clear 7-3. In the final, Nastasi and Bertelli offered a great show to all spectators. Nastasi finali won his 2nd title in the Masters after beating Bertelli 3-2.

FISTF would like to thank organiser Piero Capponi for managing to stage a beautiful tournament and to attract a lot of medias. We hope that the Masters will help the spanish association to recruit many more players.

Pictures are available at
http://subbuteomadrid.mforos.com/150698 ... -pictures/
Comments (in spanish) and results are available at www.futboldemesa.com

There is also a video available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in_nxuCqxoI

2. Total soccer launch and table football marathon The Masters in Madrid was not only a tournament for 12 players of the world's elite. Piero Capponi's company was also launching a new table football game called "Total soccer". Total soccer is sold under licence of Real Madrid and will therefore attract the attention of many football fans.
Hopefully there will be thousands of new players in Spain in the next few months. As a big surprise for the event, 2 of the Real Madrid players (one of them was Michel Salgado) were present for the ceremony, attracting the attention of the medias.

Before the Masters tournament, Total Soccer organized a very big table football marathon with 4 top spanish players playing a game for 48 hours non-stop. Juan Carlos Granados (150 goals), Miguel Angel Heredia (117), José Ros (129) and Miguel Angel Lopez (244) scored more than 600 goals in
48 hours. Once again, congratulations to all involved players and Piero Capponi for organising such a great event.

Pictures are available at
http://subbuteomadrid.mforos.com/150698 ... al-soccer/
Real Murcia's website: http://realmurcia-cf.blogspot.com

3. Challenger of Frameries
28 players competed in the Challenger of Frameries (Belgium). Johnny Beaufays (SC Flanders) took an easy win and became the first player to win
2 Challengers. He beat Richard Boulanger (SC Stembert) in the final. All categories were played as there were a lot of young players and winners were as follows: Sabria Bouzakhti (ladies), Patrick Peltier (veterans), David Vantassel (U19), Jérôme Vandevenne (U15), Kenny De Schuyteneer (U12) and AS Hennuyer B (teams).

4. Scotland: A future player is born
Thomas Anthony Robert Wright was born last week to proud parents Max and Susan Wright. Mother and Son are doing well. FISTF would like to send their best wishes to the happy family!

5. Greece: Greek league for clubs (by Chris Aggelinas) The first day of the greek league was played last week-end. We had 10 teams from 8 clubs. That means that we have 2 "B" teams. This is happening for the last time. For the season 2009-10, it is going to be something very familiar with the Belgian model. 10 teams meet each other twice in three different days. Day 1 each team played 6 times, refereed 3 times and rested
1 round. A small conclusion is that Atlas, Falcons and Roligans have the absolute record 6 games, 6 wins and leading the race with 18 points. The rest of the teams are AEK (9), Athens Kickers (9), Mirmidones (4) and with
2 teams Highlanders (4 points and 1 point) and Lions (6 points and 0).

6. France: Beauzelle GP
Jean-Marie Amberny (Issy) won the first "Grand Prix" of the french GP circuit. The event was held in Beauzelle, near Toulouse, and attracted around 30 players from all around France. Amberny beat teamate Emmanuel Gorgette in the final while Thomas Ponté (also from Issy) was third.

7. Italy: Christmas tournament in Milan
The Christmas cup will be held in Milan soon. It's one of the oldest tournaments ever. Who are going to be the successor of Stefano De Francesco
(2007 winner) and Pisa (2007 team winner)?
The link: http://torneonatale.altervista.org/index.html

8. USA: New club
There is a new club in New Jersey: http://gardenstatesubbuteo.blogspot.com/

9. Calendar 2008-2009
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - gcaven@gmail.com - www.freewebs.com/cntfa/index.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul Eyes - comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - swhitehead@cogeco.ca - http://home.cogeco.ca/~romanada/Eomsl/Eomsl_main.htm
20-21/12/2008 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - jadot_benoit@yahoo.fr -
10-11/01/2009 - Satellite in Ciampino (Roma) (ITA) - Antonello Rodriquez - johnny_reb@ntlworld.com -
17/01/2009 - Satellite in Rhondda Valley (WAL) - John Lauder - mike@worldtablesoccer.com - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JPN) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

10. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

11. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

12. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
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Belgium
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In this week's issue...

1. Grand Prix of Berlin
2. Third International Open of Buenos Aires (by Philippe Hipfinger) 3. First Gibraltar Open (report by Keith Sheriff) 4. South African Open Championships (report by Clifford Graaff) 5. FISTF.com calendar page 6. One more tournament in Cyprus 7. Europa Cup pictures 8. Scotland: the Clairbois Cup 9. Northern Ireland: Dunmurry National Open (by Eoin Adams) 10. ETF archives 11. Calendar 2008-2009 12. Suppliers of material 13. Other tournaments 14. Contact person in your country

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1. Grand Prix of Berlin
63 players rom 8 countries competed in the FISTF Grand Prix of germany in Berlin. Günther Bamberzky (from TSC Wiener Neustadt, Austria) was on fire as he managed to win three titles. Bamberzky won the Open final against Wolfgang Leitner but he also won the veterans final against Robbert Thoen.
Bamberzky and his teamates of TSC Wiener Neustadt also won the team event after a close final against TSC Stella Artois Milano. In the other categories, the winners were Björn Kegenbein (U19), Marcel Kwiatkowski (U15), Giuditta Lo Cascio (Ladies) and Giannis Vlassopoulos (U12).

2. Third International Open of Buenos Aires (by Philippe Hipfinger) Claudio Miscia, the man of the weekend !
The third International Open of the Argentinian Capital was played this weekend in an excellent spirit of friendship and
16 participants took part in the event. The good news is that the Buenos Aires Table Soccer Club managed to find a new place in a sport club of the Capital where different sports and activities are practiced.
During the tournament, many spectators came to discover the game and a pitch was at the disposal of the people who wanted to try the game !
Hopefully, some of them will join the BATS soon.  As for the competition, in the Open Category, Philippe Hipfinger from Brussels SC managed to win his third consecutive title in Buenos Aires by beating in the final the number One Argentinian player, Patricio Echevarietta from the local club of the BATS. It was a close a final with a final score of 2-0 for the Belgian player. Anyway, the big upset of the weekend was the defeat of Philippe in the group stage where he was beaten by the Italian player from AS Rosario, Claudio Miscia 1-0.  Claudio eventually reached the semi final in Open and also won on Sunday the Veteran Category played only by four players.
Another news is that Vincenzo Tirocchi, an Italian currently based in the city of Cordoba in Argentina will move to Montevideo at the end of the year. He will try with his familly to launch a first club in Uruguay and maybe organize a first FISTF event in this country next year.

3. First Gibraltar Open (report by Keith Sheriff) The first Gibraltar table soccer FITSF (Federation International Table Soccer Federation) approved Open tournament was held for the first time in Gibraltar on the 29th and 30th November at the Central Hall. A total of 24 players battled it out in four different events, the U12, Veterans, Teams played on the Saturday and the main event the Open which was held on Sunday.
Emilio Murciano (Real Murcia) was victorious beating his team mate Juan Carlos Granados (Real Murcia) in the final on a penalty shoot-out (3–2) after a tantalising but exciting (0–0) draw. 24 players of all ages competed in this tournament including four foreign players: 3 from Murcia (Real Murcia) while Steve Hawkins represented the English club English Premier League (EPL). The highlight of this competition no doubt centred on the match that drew the competitions oldest player, 49 year old Peter Sardeńa and the youngest 10 year old Kyle Tellez, a difference of almost 40 years! The other highlight was no doubt the match between local players Guy Palmer and John Field. John dominated the first half leading (3–1) but in the second Guy battled back pulling a goal back with a superb running ball only to see John respond with another traditional John Field special to lead (4–2). However with time running out Guy decided to launch himself in an all out attack and with two well atken goals managed to draw the match with less than two minutes to go (4–4). The ten minute extra time period was clearly dominated by Guy Palmer who finally managed to squeeze the ball past John Field's defence from a well taken corner. (5–4) the final score.
In the semis, Juan Carlos Granados beat Steve Hawkins (1-0) while Emilio Murciano beat local player Guy Palmer (4-2). In the final, Murciano won on penalty shots after a scoreless match. Granados also won the veterans tournament while Kyle Tellez won the U12 section. Finally, Real Murcia came on top of the team event after three wins in the group stage.
The event was inaugurated by a friendly international between Gibraltar and Spain held at St. Anne's Main Hall on the Friday evening. Gibraltar 'A'
drew 2-2 with Spain in the first round of matches in which four players from each side play against each other on different tables and their points and scores combine. Gibraltar 'B' lost 3-1 against Spain in the second round of matches.
Overall the event was characterised throughout by the sporting nature in which the games were held. The camaraderie between the players was superb with the four foreign players expressing their admiration for the hospitality and friendly nature of the tournament. The GTSA would like to thank Juan Carlos Granados from Real Murcia FC for his expertise and assistance throughout the tournament in technical points and rule changes.
Juan Carlos is a dear friend of this Association and it must be mentioned that he personally delivered and supported the GTSA's application for full membership to FITSF world governing body.
Our thanks must also go to our sponsors; Gibtelecom, D & H Ceramics, Valmar Pharmacy, Monteverde & Sons Ltd, Autosport, Redwood and the International Police Association (IPA) for their individual generous contributions. The GTSA would also like to express their sincere and deeply appreciated thanks to the Hon. Minister for Sport and Leisure Mr. Edwin Reyes for his superb support and assistance throughout particularly in his commitment for Government to offer to supply the materials to build the eight superb pitches and support boxes for the event free of charge. The GTSA would like to also thank and congratulate the staff and apprentices of the Gibraltar Training Centre for the superb workmanship in designing and assembling of the pitch frames and boxes. Without all of the above this tournament would not have been possible.
Finally I would like to thank my committee, Manolo Martinez, Alan Crisp, Peter Sardeńa, Guy Palmer, Lawrence Alvarez, Gerard Laguea and everyone else who contributed in any way in ensuring the Gibraltar's first international Open competition was a complete success.

4. South African Open Championships (report by Clifford Graaff) The second South African Open was held on Sunday 30th November 2008 at Panorama Sports Club in Roodepoort. A very good field of 18 entrants had a truly great day which has been described as the best ever tournament yet on the South African circuit.
Current South African champion and number 1 seed, Clifford Graaff,  was beaten by Jason Kennedy in the quarter final by two goals to one after extra time. The other quarter finals all went to form with Sean Morgan defeating Shane Graaff by two goals to one. Reza Bodiat accounted for junior Richard Graaff by the only goal. Harold Silber beat his nephew and junior, Max Silber by the odd goal in five.
The semi finals saw Jason Kennedy continue his great form by defeating Reza Bodiat in a very tight game by one goal to nil. Sean Morgan and Harold Silber dished up the most exciting game of the tournament which was only concluded on penalty flicks after both players shared a six-goal thriller in normal time. Extra time could also not break the deadlock. Sean proved to have nerves of steel by equalising in the last minute of normal time after being down by three goals to two. He also had to convert his las penalty flick to force a second round of penalty flicks. The final saw Jason Kennedy, who must be the most improved player this year in South Africa, against favourite Sean Morgan. The final proved to be a very tight affair with Sean mounting the early pressure which paid off when he scored the opening goal after great work down his left flank. Jason tried to respond but Sean's defence proved to be resilient and he caught Jason on a counter attack after Jason left a gaping hole in the middle of his defence and slotted his second goal. This prompted Jason onto the attack and a brilliant through ball from his own half and a  direct flick saw the ball canon into the top corner of the net. This goal has been described as the best goal ever seen in a local tournament and also rightly earned Jason a special prize for goal of the day at the prize giving. The second half started off at a cracking pace with both players trying to seize the iniative. Sean then capitalized on a error by Jason and slotted his third goal after an intricate and precise movement emanating from his own half.
Jaso countered almost immediately and lay siege to Sean's goal. The pressure paid off just before full time when a sublime through ball from just outside the shooting area and a neat one-two saw Jason score his second goal much to the delight of a big and boisterous crowd. Jason tried for the equaliser,however Sean absorbed the pressure and deservedly secured his first FISTF title. By winning the tournament Sean has also taken over the number one ranking in South Africa.
In the junior final Yasser Bodiat accounted for his older brother in a tense game with the winning goal being scored midway through the second half. This is also the first FISTF title that Yasser has captured and he completed a great day by accounting for both junior favourites in the semi and final - well done !!!!!

The South African Table Football Association is also proud to announce that we now have a new permanent home base for all future tournaments - namely Panorama Sports Club.  Panorama Sports Club was found in 1986 and boasts arguably the biggest soccer section for both junior and senior players with almost 600 registered soccer players in Johannesburg. The Johannesburg Table Football Club will now re-locate to Panorama Sports Club and affiliate to the main club as an independent sub-club. During the course of the tournament there were many interested spectators and the final was witnessed by the biggest ever crowd for a table football event in South Africa. Many people were re-acquainted with the game and membership at our forthcoming club evenings looks set to increase dramatically. Once again commemorative soccer trophies were awarded to all our juniors with the following two special awards also being made :
Goal of the Tournament : Jason Kennedy (in the final vs Sean Morgan) Chairman/Janus Gersie Award : Harold Silber (encompassing the spirit of table football).

5. FISTF.com calendar page
The calendar page of FISTF.com web site is now updated! Sorry for the delay but we are thinking that we have at the moment a life-time hi-quality result (and technically is easy for updates). The FISTF official calendar URL is http://www.fistf.com/calendar.htm

6. One more tournament in Cyprus
There will be a Challenger on the 21st of December. The contact person for the tournament is George Zangylos. His email is http://www.ctp-gallery.co.uk/FISTF2008/

8. Scotland: the Clairbois Cup
Congratulations to Dave Baxter on his 2nd circuit event win of the season.
Dave won his four games to finish top of the swiss system ladder. 13 players were competing and Stephen Bennett is 2nd (9 points). Then come Gareth Christie, Jim Law and Richard Pepper with 7 points.

9. Northern Ireland: Dunmurry National Open (by Eoin Adams) It was a good day for Kenny Beggs, who won both the Open and Veteran Finals against Gary Moore and Stephen Rodgers respectively. Peter Morrison beat John Hughes in the Under-19 Final and was runner-up to Mark Farrell in the Plate.
The Open was a tough event and Beggs was made to work hard for the title.
The No.1 seed was fortunate to get through his group, following a 1-1 draw with Stephen Rodgers and a 0-0 draw with Mark Farrell. Rodgers and Farrell also drew 1-1 with each other, which left all three players on two points and zero goal-difference. Rodgers topped the group, having scored more goals but Beggs and Farrell were equal and so required a shoot-out to determine who qualified in 2nd spot. After five shots each, they were still level at 3-3 but Farrell missed his first sudden-death shot and Beggs scored his to advance to the quarter-final where he would meet John Moore.
The pressure was immediately on Beggs again, as Mooretook an early lead but Beggs equalised in the 2nd half and scored a golden-goal in extra time. A single goal was enough to beat Joe McRoberts in the semi-final, while the Final was a similar story, with a goal in the first minute clinching a 1-0 victory against Gary Moore.
The tournament produced some interesting matches. In Group B, No.2 seed, Barry Spence failed to qualify, following a 0-0 draw with Eoin Adams and a
2-3 defeat to Joe McRoberts. Adams qualified with another 0-0 draw against McRoberts but was involved in the best match of the day in his quarter-final against Gary Moore. He led 3-2 with less than a minute remaining but Moore equalised and went on to score the golden-goal to win
4-3 after extra-time.
Stephen Rodgers will also be pleased with his performance, reaching the Open semi-final and the Veteran Final.
The day was rounded off with an International Friendly between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which the Southern lads won 2-1, giving them their first victory over the North since the 2004 UK & Ireland Internationals in Preston.
Thanks to everyone for taking part, and also to Laura, for taking photos for the website, and helping me co-ordinate the fixtures, not an easy job considering the Dublin lads turned up 3 hours later than expected, due to traffic jams caused by Christmas shoppers.
Full results available at www.nitfa.org.uk

10. ETF archives
Hello to all, as you probably know, I spent a lot of time in the last few months to collect the archives of the FISTF tournaments played since 1993.
After a few months of researches, I managed to find many interesting datas and I compiled quite a lot of files (you can see them from www.subbuteonews.com). Right now, my italian friend Gianbattista Fontanella has encouraged me to compile a file with the ETF archives. We think it's very important to compile some results so that they won't be lost in the future. After all, ETF was the basic of FISTF. Gianbattista sent me some stuff from the 60's and 70's and now we're going to try to find more. If you have any idea how to help, you can get a copy of the first ETF archives file, which is a first draft of our work. We'd be more than happy to hear from you. Sometimes, some small corrections can help (like missing first names or countries). Well, if you can help, we'd be very grateful.
Please note that once the ETF files are done, we'll start a new project with the FISA events.
The full results of theEuropean championships 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972 are already compiled. If you have more results, you cans end them by e-mail or by fax at ++32-56-488742.

11. Calendar 2008-2009
06-07/12/2008 - Grand Prix in Vienna (AUT) - Markus Jurik - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul Eyes - comiteidf@gmail.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Boissy Saint-Léger (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - swhitehead@cogeco.ca - http://home.cogeco.ca/~romanada/Eomsl/Eomsl_main.htm
20-21/12/2008 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - zangylos@yahoo.gr -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JPN) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Ilioupoli (GRE) - George Dimakeas - s.cotronei@email.it -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - Enrico Guidi - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -

12. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

13. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

14. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - chragg1@otenet.gr (updated) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
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In this week's issue...

1. FISTF website
2. Karl-Heinz Haider wins the Grand Prix of Austria 3. Zach Walker on top 4. Satellite of Boissy 5. Open of Boissy 6. Launch of "Union of Hellenic Table soccer" (by Janus Gersie) 7. Open of Temploux: invitation file 8. Brussels United blog 9. Cyprus: website 10. France: national tournament in Puylaurens 11. Belgium's 2nd Challenger 12. Italy: Home win for Efrem Intra 13. Templeuve national tournament 14. Calendar 2008-2009 15. Suppliers of material 16. Other tournaments 17. Contact person in your country

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1. FISTF website
For some incomprehensible reasons, Profis, the company n charge of the FISTF website, has resigned from any support at FISTF.com Therefore there is no FISTF website at the moment and FISTF will have to try to find a quick solution.
Any person wanting to offer help is welcome to contact the FISTF board at http://fistfnews.blogspot.com/

2. Karl-Heinz Haider wins the Grand Prix of Austria The Grand Prix of Austria took place in Vienna again this week-end and players from Germany, Italy, England, Greece, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Austria were competing. Karl-Heinz Haider (TFC Mattersburg) won the open final. he beat Robert Lenz (3-1). Wolfgang Leitner and Stefano Buono were the semi-finalists. Int he other categories, there were a lot of though games but finally the winners were Erich Hinkelmann (veterans), Jiri Cevela (U15), Alexander Haas (U19) and Valentina Bartolini (ladies).

3. Zach Walker on top
The US Open took place this saturday in Ellicott City, Maryland. 45 players were competing in the Open category, making the largest tournament of the season outside Europe. In the semi-finals, Zach Walker beat Patrick Sheridan (4-1) while Paul Eyes defeated Philippe Hipfinger with a single goal (1-0). Hipfinger was the only european player taking part. In the final, Zach had no mercy for Paul Eyes. He won the game on a clear 4-1.
Other finals of the week-end:
US IO Veterans - Final: Paul Eyes 3 Gregg Deinhart 1 US IO U15 (27 Players) - Final: Collin Dohner 3 Nevin Varghese 0 US IO U19 - Final: Patrick Sheridan 1 Daniel Cranston 0 ASA National Team Championships (non FISTF) - Maryland 2 WTSL Eagles 2-2.
Marylandwon by golden goal in OT.
ASA Open: Maryland Cup (non FISTF) - Final: Zach Walker 1 Patrick Sheridan 0

4. Satellite of Boissy
Jérôme Heyvaert (SC Charleroi) won the Open final of the tournament after beating Pierre De Leeuw (SC Brussels) 4-1. Semi-finalists are Tony Briant (FTC Boissy-Saint-Léger) & Olivier Bastin (CFT Montivilliers). Théo Modeste on the U12 section after beating Lucie Le Téno in the final.

5. Open of Boissy
Nicolas Wlodarczyk (Monaco) beat David Leroy (Belgium) in the final of the Open of Boissy. Valéry Dejardin and Eric Naszalyi lost in the semis. In the categories, the winners were as follows: Jérôme Bertrand (U19), Arnaud Le Teno (U15), Thierry Vivron (Veterans), Françoise Guyot (Ladies).

6. Launch of "Union of Hellenic Table soccer" (by Janus Gersie) At the end of november the launch of the new and recognised hellenic community happened successfully. Until the beginning of this week we already got more than 60 registrations from 6 clubs. What does the UNION stand for ? We want to reunify hellenic tablesoccer by bringing together all greek table soccer players. There are no opponent sides any longer but the offer to all hellenic players to play in ONE association. The UNION is not an association yet but currently we are organising ourselves to have a structure. Main approach will be to build up a tournament calendar for the remaining season and to prepare elections latest next summer. EVERY greek player is welcomed and kindly asked to register with the UNION. Please feel free to send your name, club and email-address to http://hellenictbs.blogspot.com/. If you have questions don't hesitate to contact Janus Gersie.

7. Open of Temploux: invitation file
The invitation file for the tournament is available from Antoine Dikaios at http://brussels-united.skyrock.com/

9. Cyprus: website
The website of the Cipriot association is now under construction at http://www.subbuteocy.com/

10. France: national tournament in Puylaurens This tournament was held in the south of France and 20 players were competing. In Open category, Stéphane Jacquelin beat Jean-François Balard
(1-0) in the final. Serge Leroy won the veterans and Paul Gurdjos won the U12. There are pictures and results at www.cft-puylaurens-subbuteo.fr

11. Belgium's 2nd Challenger
The Brussels United club will organize a Challenger on May 23. For details contact Michel De Schuyteneer at vincent.cop@rsca.com

14. Calendar 2008-2009
13/12/2008 - Satellite in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - chragg1@otenet.gr -
19/12/2008 - Satellite in Frankford, Ontario (CAN) - Steve Whitehead - http://home.cogeco.ca/~romanada/Eomsl/Eomsl_main.htm
20-21/12/2008 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - zangylos@yahoo.gr -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JPN) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - subbuteomike1@hotmail.com or +32-475-346619
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - wrkl@hotmail.com -
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - Juan Carlos Granados - georgiosdi@vodafone.net.gr
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - rome-gp@blackrose98roma.com - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -

15. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

16. Other tournaments
December 20 - National tournament in Templeuve (BEL) ; CM: Vincent Coppenolle at valerydejardin@hotmail.com April 18 - National tournament in Charleroi (BEL) ; CM: Vito Di Ruggiero at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be

17. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - janus@gersie.de) INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - Jorge Silva - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com (updated) SOUTH AFRICA - Reza Bodiat - ubreza@global.co.za SPAIN - Fernando Gómez - fgomez@pv.ugt.org SWEDEN - Bob Green - Paul.Remund@bluewin.ch TOGO - Adesakin Okegbemi - bayrak.kadir@gmail.com & lennyfoster@gmail.com (updated) VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
00-32-477-22 19 02 (mobile)
00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
00-32-56-48 87 42 (office & fax)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

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This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
If you don't want to receive further information from FISTF, reply with "Remove" as subject.
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More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

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In this week's issue...

1. The greek satellite for Stamatopoulos 2. Satellite in Frankford 3. First title for Zangylos 4. Templeuve tournament 5. Major of Amsterdam 6. Argentina becomes FISTF full member 7. FISA and ETF results 8. Calendar 2008-2009 9. Suppliers of material 10. Other tournaments 11. Contact person in your country

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First of all, FISTF would like to wish you the best wishes for the end of the year. We hope that the Christmas time will be a period of peace for you and your family.

1. The greek satellite for Stamatopoulos On sunday, December 21st the second Greek satellite of the season was played in Ilioupoli. A total number of 45 different players took part and they were divided as 12 under 15, 6 veterans and 27 open. The big surprise came in open. Dimitris Stamatopoulos (Atlas) was the winner as he beat in the final 2-1 the even biggest surprise of the day Periklis Dimopoulos (Pireas Lions). Both of them eliminate in the semis the two favorites of the day Lazaros Papakonstantinou and Nikos Naskos. The rest of the last 8 were Vasilis Koutsobinas, Christos Archimandritis, Giorgos Sklavounos and Nikos Pappas. In the under 15, 12 players took part. Dimitris Koulossousas was the winner, Petros Theologos (Roligans) reached the final and the Athenskickers team mates Manos Kapsabelis and Anastasios Maroulas stayed in the semifinals. In the veterans, just 6 players participated. Giorgos Aggelinas won the final 1-0 against his team mate Marcos Kapsabelis. Chris Aggelinas and Leonidas Koutroumanos reached the semis.
The is a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB1ZvDvJIU
(Report by Chris Aggelinas)

2. Satellite in Frankford
Only 4 players were present for this tournament held in Canada. Steve Whitehead defeated Bruno Biasini in the final (2-0). As there were less than 6 players, the tournament will not count for the FISTF World rankings.

3. First title for Zangylos
George Zangylos won his first international title on sunday at the Limassol tournament. Kostas Kalopsidiotis was the losing finalist while Marcos Kalopsisiotis won the consolation match for the third place. 13 players from the two Cypriot clubs (Famagustaand Nicosia) were taking part.

4. Templeuve tournament
57 players attended the Templeuve national tournament held on December 20.
Christophe Dheur (Stembert) beat Justin Leroy (Rochefort) on sudden death (5-4). Leroy had beaten world champion Eric Verhagen in semi-final (2-1).
The other semi-finalist was David Leroy. Other winners in this tournament were Johnny Beaufays (Serie B), Frank Lannoy (Serie C), Steve Grégoire (veterans), Kenny De schuyteneer (U12), Bryan Spiroux (U15), Elodie Bertholet (Ladies) and Michaël Denooz (U19).

5. Major of Amsterdam
Robbert Thoen & Marco de Bruin are sending us this short message: "Hello Subbuteo Friends, We have the pleasure to invite you to participate at the Major of Amsterdam at 4/ 5 April 2009. The Major takes place now in Amsterdam South-East. Its easy to reach to the center of Amsterdam with the underground. We are playing at 40 brand new tables (world cup pitches) from Astroturf. All information you can find at www.amsterdam-tournament.nl We wish you a Happy Christmas and a Sportive New Year !!!
Best Regards,
Robbert Thoen & Marco de Bruin"

6. Argentina becomes FISTF full member
A good surprise came for Christmas time in the FISTF community. The argentinian association decided to join FISTF as a full member nation. The full membership status of the association will allow Argentina to run a Grand Prix in Rosario in May 2009 and plans are under way to organize a national championship, which would take place in Rosario in March.

7. FISA and ETF results
The two new books edited by the FISTF department of archives are under way.
We are collecting the results of the old FISA and ETF championships. For the ETF results, we are now looking for the full results of the European championships 1978 to 1989 as well as the european championships for nations 1967, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1987 and 1991.
For the FISA results, we look the details of the World Cup 1970, 1974 (group stage only) and the results of the European championships 1996 held in London. Thanks for your help. If you want a copy of the drafts, don't hesitate to ask.

8. Calendar 2008-2009
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JPN) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - subbuteomike1@hotmail.com or +32-475-346619
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - wrkl@hotmail.com -
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - Juan Carlos Granados - georgiosdi@vodafone.net.gr
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - rome-gp@blackrose98roma.com - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -

9. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

10. Other tournaments
February 21 - National tournament in Rochefort (BEL) ; CM: Valéry Dejardin at diruggiero.vito@skynet.be June 20 - Flanders Cup (BEL) ; CM: Filip Van Hulle at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - sheriff@gibtelecom.net (updated) GREECE - "To Be Announced" -> Contact via Janus Gersie (Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr NETHERLANDS - NSVB - stevehickey@xtra.co.nz NIGERIA - Ibrahim Ahmed Ali - ken@nitfa.org.uk NORWAY - Anders Bergane - ruizrepetto@gmail.com PAKISTAN - Noushad Ahmed Khan - jorge.silva@noxitel.com (new) RUSSIA - Oleg Mitkin - mike@worldtablesoccer.com SINGAPORE - Christopher Soh - kuff@global.co.za & elway7@terra.es & weareleeds4@hotmail.com SWITZERLAND - Paul Remund - kingsolom2001@yahoo.ca TURKEY - Kadir Bayrak - bayrak_kadir@hotmail.com USA - Lenny Foster - elporro22@hotmail.com WALES - Colin Lewis - Vincent.coppenolle@assur.cbc.be (work)
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In this week's issue...

1. 2008, a good year for FISTF
2. Changes in the FISTF calendar
3. Italy: Lazio on TV
4. Table Football WebTV
5. Calendar 2008-2009
6. Suppliers of material
7. Other tournaments
8. Contact person in your country

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First of all, FISTF would like to wish you the best wishes for the end of the year. We hope that the Christmas time will be a period of peace for you and your family.

1. 2008, a good year for FISTF
For several reasons, 2008 was a good year for FISTF. Our association managed to increase the number of active players on the international scene and tournaments were held for the first time in new countries. Gibraltar and Cyprus were the new hosts of FISTF tournaments in the last season, bringing the total of host nations to 28 (*). Japan will become the 29th country to host a tournament in January and therefore the future of FISTF looks promising. We now hope to attract more nations and hopefully our contacts in Uruguay, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Israël and Switzerland will be positive. We also hope to see the come-back of tournaments in Ireland and Australia in the near future.

As for the quality of tournaments, we also have reasons to be happy. The standards of organisation are increasing and superb events were held in several places. Tournaments in the USA, Argentina, Italy and Spain had improved standards and events in Finland, Norway and Belgium (the Brussels
GP) had also very high standards. The World Cup in Austria attracted a lot of players from 18 different countries and first North American continental cup was held in Washington, DC. Also, the FISTF Masters in Madrid was successful with a brilliant organisation by Piero Capponi who managed to involve some of the Real Madrid players for the tournament.

2009 will also be full of surprises as the South African association has plans to host the first African Nations Cup in Johannesburg and the World Cup in the Netherlands is also expected to beat all records of participation.

The quality of material has also been improved over the last few months.
Zeugo, Soccer 3D, Stefan Corda, Flickmaster, Total Soccer, Extreme Works,... are bringing a lot of great products to improve the quality of the game. The arrival of new manufacturers is a very good thing for the game. Now we hope that suppliers will be able to extend the availability of material in the future so that products will not only be available via internet.

Finally, the job of the FISTF Board has not been easy in 2008. We wasted a lot of time an energy to try to solve the problems of the Greek association and we also lost or webmaster a few weeks ago. Plans are under way to re-launch a new FISTF website in the next few days. For 2009, we also hope to work on the simplification of some playing rules, to help the job of the referees and to find a solution for the problems of goalkeepers.

FISTF is also looking for the help of some people interested to contribute to the development of our association, not only to work for the marketing department and the communication department but also to promote table football at local level and to organize tournaments. If you are interested, don't hesitate to drop me a line.

Until then, I wish you a successful year 2009 full of satisfaction and a lot of great moments in table football.

Vincent Coppenolle
FISTF president

(*): the 28 nations to host tournaments were Argentina , Australia , Autria, Belgium, Canada , Cyprus, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Scotland, Singapore, the USA, Wales.

2. Changes in the FISTF calendar
There are some changes in the FISTF calendar. Some belgian events have now been moved.
- the Templeuve Satellites will be held on July 11 & 12 (instead of 18 & 19);
- there will be a Future in Meslin-l'Evêque on July 19;
- there will be a Challenger in Brussels on August 2.

3. Italy: Lazio on TV
There is an interview of some LAZIO ROMA players on Youtube. Check the link at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVWpXpg0kQg

4. Table Football WebTV
Stefano Montecchiesi has finally started his project of a WebTV about Table Football/Subbuteo. The website will start on the first of January. Stefano collected several interviews to important Italian persons of the Table Football world such as Marco DeAngelis, Renzo Frignani, Stefano Buzzi, Gianluca Galeazzi, etc. He will publish on my website report on the tournaments, tips and techniques, rules, etc.
The url is www.miomovie.it and it will be online on the 1st of January.

5. Calendar 2008-2009
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
11/01/2009 - Satellite in Huntingdon (ENG) - John Turpin - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01/2009 - Satellite in Yokohama (JPN) - Kenzou Koui - http://web.mac.com/koikoifulie/iWeb/SUB ... N/TOP.html
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - open@ftcissy.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - www.uscutrecht.nl/gp.htm
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - Marco Pinausi - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
14-15/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - no (1) - Jesper Staal Nielsen
- vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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07-08/03/2009 - America Cup in Washington, DC (USA) - Zach Walker - vanhulle.fw@pg.com -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - luca.licheri@kcl.ac.uk - www.cagliaricalciotavolo.net
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - subbuteomike1@hotmail.com or +32-475-346619
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - wrkl@hotmail.com -
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - Juan Carlos Granados - georgiosdi@vodafone.net.gr
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - rome-gp@blackrose98roma.com - www.romegp@blogspot.com
04-05/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Cardiff (WAL) - John Lauder - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
11/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
12/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
18-19/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - vincent.cop@rsca.com - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Grand Prix Corbera de Llobregat (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - franz.hipfinger@skynet.be
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - jstaal@sol.dk -

6. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek
Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com Steven Laskey, Team, Bases and Base Decals - http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/rex-cbibases
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

7. Other tournaments
February 21 - National tournament in Rochefort (BEL) ; CM: Valéry Dejardin at diruggiero.vito@skynet.be June 20 - Flanders Cup (BEL) ; CM: Filip Van Hulle at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - sheriff@gibtelecom.net (updated) GREECE - "To Be Announced" -> Contact via Janus Gersie (Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr NETHERLANDS - NSVB - stevehickey@xtra.co.nz NIGERIA - Ibrahim Ahmed Ali - ken@nitfa.org.uk NORWAY - Anders Bergane - ruizrepetto@gmail.com PAKISTAN - Noushad Ahmed Khan - jorge.silva@noxitel.com (new) RUSSIA - Oleg Mitkin - mike@worldtablesoccer.com SINGAPORE - Christopher Soh - kuff@global.co.za & elway7@terra.es & weareleeds4@hotmail.com SWITZERLAND - Paul Remund - kingsolom2001@yahoo.ca TURKEY - Kadir Bayrak - bayrak_kadir@hotmail.com USA - Lenny Foster - elporro22@hotmail.com WALES - Colin Lewis - Vincent.coppenolle@assur.cbc.be (work)
templeuvesport@yahoo.com (Yahoo Messenger) mailto:belsubbuteo@hotmail.com">belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)