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In this week's issue...

1. New e-mail for the world rankings department 2. Malta: Grand Prix postponed 3. Open of Issy 4. Open of Reggio Emilia 5. Future of Mar del Plata 6. World cup souvenir book 7. One more tournament in Scotland 8. Canada: Wooler Cold Creek Cup (from the CNTFA newsletter) 9. Greece: Subbuteo on TV 11. Suppliers of material 12. FISTF calendar 13. Other tournaments 14. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
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1. New e-mail for the world rankings department All correspondance regarding the world rakings should now be subitted to Frédéric Perdaens's new e-mail address at www.asr08.com.ar

6. World cup souvenir book
The world cup 2007 souvenir book is now available in color from Laurent Garnier at mike@worldtablesoccer.com or 07793 848 949.

8. Canada: Wooler Cold Creek Cup (from the CNTFA newsletter) Another good turn out and some great results, which saw Bruno Biasini capture his 3rd consecutive CSTFA Tournament in Ontario, congratulations Bruno!

9. Greece: Subbuteo on TV
On Monday, Feb 4th, the Greek National Television presented an account of the 24th National Cup, organised by PATFAP. The program included players'
interviews, presentation of the winners and short videos of games taken during the competition by the National TV, which covered the tournament. It is the second time in ten days that the National Television hosts a Table Football promotion program. A lot of interested people have already contacted PATFAP, asking how they can join the table football family. Video can be seen on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUBBeyCSQk

10. Scotland: national circuit
The 5th event of the Scottish Championship was hosted by Tayside Kickers on Sun 3 Feb in Arbroath. The final positions are as follows:
1. Gareth Christie – 10pts +8gd
2. Steve Bennet – 10pts +5gd
3. Jim Law – 9pts +8 gd
4. Darryl Shanks -7pts +2gd
5. Iain Bell – 7pts +2gd
6. Mike Burns - 6pts -4gd
7. Ezio Orru - 5pts +1gd
8. Scott Fleming - 4pts +1gd
9. Brian Clark - 4pts – 1gd
10. Kevin Christopher - 4pts -1gd
11. Dave Butler - 4pts -3gd
12. Colin Mathews - 2 pts-6gd
13. Laura Hanratty - 0pts – 12gd

The Scottish National Championship positions after 5 events are ( 4 best events are considered):
1 Steve Bennett 40 36 30 40 36 152
2 Jim Law 30 40 35 34 34 143
3 Gareth Christie 34 33 0 36 40 143
4 Michael Burns 36 0 35 33 31 135
5 Iain Bell 28 32 0 30 32 122
6 Max Wright 31 34 30 26 0 121
7 Kevin Christopher 33 27 25 31 27 118
8 Daryl Shanks 0 28 25 29 33 115
9 Scott Fleming 32 25 0 25 29 111
10 Susan Wright 27 30 25 28 0 110
11 Terry Brown 29 31 25 24 0 109
12 Brian Clark 0 0 30 27 28 85
13 Neil Christopher 26 26 0 32 0 84
14 Colin Matthew 25 29 0 0 25 79
15 Kathryn Jamieson 0 24 25 19 0 68
16 Nicole Kettles 24 0 25 16 0 65
17 Laura Hanratty 0 0 0 15 24 39
18 Ezio Orru 0 0 0 0 30 30
19 Dave Butler 0 0 0 0 26 26
20 Daniel Burns 0 0 0 20 0 20
21 Dave Massif 0 0 0 18 0 18
22 Chris Lochhead 0 0 0 17 0 17
23 Lauren Dunnowhae 0 0 0 14 0 14

Only 2 events remain , Dumfries on 16 March 2008 and the Glasgow GP on
26/27 April 2008.

10. New contact for Cyprus
Paul Andreas (www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

12. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Edimburgh
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
09-10/02/08 - IO in Athens (GRE) - Giannis Sioutis - jstaal@sport.dk
24/02/08 - Future in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - olivier.pere@skynet.be - www.ashennuyer.be
08-09/03/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ferdy22@gmail.com - http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
04/05/08 - Grand Prix in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
18/05/08 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
24-25/05/08 - IO in Murau (AUT) - Dieter Dressler - botigers@infinito.it
07-08/06/08 - Grand Prix in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - granadosjc@terra.es
08/06/08 - IO in Vancouver (CAN) - Gurmeet Khaira - warren_Creighton@hotmail.com
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - ngpio@bordfotball.no
05-06/07/08 - Satellite in Dolo (ITA) - Davide Lazzari
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel les.commons@blueyonder.co.uk
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
03/08/08 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - vincent@fistf.com
16-17/08/08 - Major Mattersburg (AUT) - Jelena Radic - vincent@fistf.com

13. Other tournaments
Febrary 16 - National tournament in Stembert (BEL) ; CM: Sébastien Scheen at alainmenge@hotmail.com

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 (new) CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk (updated) FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Stephan Thiele - joebonfi@gibtelecom.net & jsiout@profis.gr - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - enricotesta@gmail.com JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - 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 POLAND - Urszula Tomascewska - apsubbuteo@hotmail.com RUSSIA - Oleg Mitkin - mike@worldtablesoccer.com SINGAPORE - Erza Aripin - erzaaripin@yahoo.com.sg & 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 - Zach Walker - 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)

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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.
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 (1-191) 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. Malta: MTFSA event 2 (by Hansel Mallia) 2. 30th birthday for CCT Roma 3. National Tournament in Athens 4. Scotland: Glasgow TSA 5. Spain: Super Copa Murciana 6. USA: Maricopa Cup round 2 (by Simon Hutchinson) 7. Suppliers of material 8. FISTF calendar 9. Other tournaments 10. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Malta: MTFSA event 2 (by Hansel Mallia) During last weekend, the MTFSA organised the second local event held at the Victor Tedesco Stadium. Three events of this kind are scheduled so that divisions will be formed at the end of the season to establish the Maltese Champion. This competition was done on a tournament basis were 16 players took part. Four groups of three and one group of four meant that only the first two players from each group managed to qualify for the next stage.
Two matches of preliminary round took place soon after the groups in which Hansel Mallia and Kenneth Attard lost to Mark Gauci and Massimo Cremona 2-3 and 1-2 respectively.

At quarter final stage, Charles Aquilina and Derek Conti lost to Mark Gauci and Samuel Bartolo while Joe Mifsud won over Massimo Cremona with a 2-0 margin and Ilai Zammit bet Adrian Bonnici 2-1. In the semis, Gauci won his encounter 5-2 against Ilai Zammit while Bartolo lost to Mifsud 2-1 in the extra time. The final between Gauci and Mifsud encountered a very open match where Mifsud was twice ahead but did not retain the lead and lost 3-2 to Gauci.

2. 30th birthday for CCT Roma
Italian club CCT Roma is going to celebrate their 30th birthday on February 23, 2008. There will be a party among former and current players. You can send your wishes to CCT Roma President Fabrizio Sonnino at www.glasgowtablesoccer.com

5. Spain: Super Copa Murciana
On February 9, Miguel Angel López won the "Super Copa Murciana" after he beat Angel Valverde (1-0) in the final.

6. USA: Maricopa Cup round 2 (by Simon Hutchinson) On Sunday February 10 the second round of this year's Maricopa Cup was played in Simi Valley, California.  Eight players played in the tournament, making it the best attended Maricopa Cup round in its three year existence.
There were surprises too.  Steve Tucker ended Wayne Smith's six year unbeaten run with a 1-0 victory, and finished the eventual winner.  And newcomer Andrea Guarducci beat Simon Hutchinson.
A full report, results, and tables can be found on the Southern California Subbuteo Club's website at http://socalsubbuteo.googlepages.com

7. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

8. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Edimburgh
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
09-10/02/08 - IO in Athens (GRE) - Giannis Sioutis - jstaal@sport.dk
24/02/08 - Future in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - olivier.pere@skynet.be - www.ashennuyer.be
08-09/03/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ferdy22@gmail.com - http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
04/05/08 - Grand Prix in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
18/05/08 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
24-25/05/08 - IO in Murau (AUT) - Dieter Dressler - botigers@infinito.it
07-08/06/08 - Grand Prix in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - granadosjc@terra.es
08/06/08 - IO in Vancouver (CAN) - Gurmeet Khaira - warren_Creighton@hotmail.com
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - ngpio@bordfotball.no
05-06/07/08 - Satellite in Dolo (ITA) - Davide Lazzari
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel les.commons@blueyonder.co.uk
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
03/08/08 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - vincent@fistf.com
16-17/08/08 - Major Mattersburg (AUT) - Jelena Radic - vincent@fistf.com

9. Other tournaments
Febrary 16 - National tournament in Stembert (BEL) ; CM: Sébastien Scheen at alainmenge@hotmail.com

10. 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 (new) CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk (updated) FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Stephan Thiele - joebonfi@gibtelecom.net & jsiout@profis.gr - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - 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 POLAND - Urszula Tomascewska - apsubbuteo@hotmail.com RUSSIA - Oleg Mitkin - mike@worldtablesoccer.com SINGAPORE - Erza Aripin - erzaaripin@yahoo.com.sg & 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 - Zach Walker - 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)

[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 (1-192) 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. The 4th Major will be held in London
2. 3 tournaments next week-end
3. Grand Prix of Malta
4. Grand Prix of France in Beausoleil
5. Italy: Pisa on top
6. England: Chris Thomas and EPL are champions 7. Belgium: national tournament in Stembert 8. Belgium: Brabant Cup 9. FISTF awards 2007 - the Nominations 10. Suppliers of material 11. FISTF calendar 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
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1. The 4th Major will be held in London
London will host a FISTF Major in the season 2008-09. FISTF Decided to give a chance to the San Siro Worthing 5 Star club as Nicky chapell and Eric Verhagen sent a very convincing presentation file for their tournament.
Anyway, FISTF decided that the Major will only be warded for one year and that a decision to continue or not will happen after the first edition of the tournament. More details will follow.

2. 3 tournaments next week-end
The forthcoming week-end will have three interesting tournaments. The Grand Prix of Denmark will have a great field of players and seems to be very interesting.
South Africa will have their 4th FISTF tournament and for the first time Clifford Graaf, who is now in the world's top 300, will not be allowed to play, which means that the winner of the Future in Johannesburg will win his first FISTF title ever.
Finally, the Future of Mechelen, the first tournament ever organized in the FLanders (dutch-speaking side of Belgium) will have a good fiel with already 30 entries and 5 teams. And possibly more to come...

3. Grand Prix of Malta
The Grand Prix of Malta will finally take place on May 3 & 4.

4. Grand Prix of France in Beausoleil
The invitation file is now available from Alex Popoff at www.gp-beausoleil.blogspot.com

5. Italy: Pisa on top
Black and Blue Pisa took the lead in the italian league after the first leg held in their hometown on February 16 & 17. Pisa won 6 games and drew 3 times, which was enough to keep a short advantage of 1 point over Perugia and 2 points over Reggio Emilia. To be noted that the Eagles napoli played most of their games with only 3 players (Bolognino, Guimaraes and Setale).
The table: 1. Pisa 21 ; 2. Perugia 20 ; 3. Reggio Emilia 19 ; 4. Bologna and Stella Artois Milano 13 ; 6. Napoli 12 ; 7. Black Rose Roma 10 ; 8.
Bari 6 ; 9. Falconara 5 ; 10. Palermo 4.
In the Serie B, in a very open league, the team of CCT Roma took a clear option to the promotion to Seria A. The team of Antonello Rodriquez managed to remain unbeaten and they are 7 points ahead of Sessana and Torino while Fiamme Azzurre is now the top candidate to be relegated to Serie C.
The table: 1. CCT Roma 25 ; 2. Sessana and Warriors Torino 18 ; 4. Cagliari
16 ; 5. Ascoli 13 ; 6. Leonessa Brescia 12 ; 7. Virtus 4Strade Rieti 10 ; 8. Biella 8 ; 9. Catania 7 ; 10. Fiamme Azzurre 3.

6. England: Chris Thomas and EPL are champions The "English Premier League" team won the national team title last week-end at the ESTFA cbhampionships after they beat San Siro Worthing 5 Star in the final. Congratulations to Dave Pawsey, Matt Lampitt, Justin Finch and Paul Sutton. Chris Thomas took the individual title after he beat Chris Short in the final. Matt Lampitt and Dave Pawsey lost in the semis. In the Veterans Category, Evertonian Phil Redman continued his domination of the event with a 4-0 final win over Leicester's Jeremy Bradley. In the Under 19's final, Cheshire's Tom Motley beat Under 15 Champion, London's Elliot Bellefontaine 4-1. A full results file and pictures will follow shortly on http://www.estfa.tfhost.com/

7. Belgium: national tournament in Stembert Sami Targui (Charleroi) won his first tournament of the season after he beat Laurent Goor (AS Hennuyer) in the final of the Stembert tournament.
Olivier Père and Christophe Dheur reached the semis. In the other categories, there were many close finals:
Serie B: Christophe Brach beat Michaël Roberty on shots (1-1); Serie C: Bryan Spiroux beat Frédéric Denooz on shots (1-1);
Veterans: Benoit Vanwissen beat Alphonse Paulis on sudden death (2-1);
U19: Michaël Denooz beat Jérôme Herbecq   on sudden death (4-3);
U15: Kevin Beckers beat Jérémie Gosset (3-0);
U12: David Vantassel beat Alysson Moine   (1-0);
Ladies: Stéphanie Scheen beat Annick Poncelet (3-0).

8. Belgium: Brabant Cup
Philippe Hipfinger won the provincial cup of Brabant. Despite only 7 players showed up, it was a very interesting tournament with many close games. Philippe Hipfinger beat Guy Cavrenne 1-0 in the final. Patrick peltier took the veterans title after he beat Franz Hipfinger on shots.

9. FISTF awards 2007 - the Nominations
The winner will named at the Major of Mons on Sunday.
FISTF Awards 2007

NOMINATIONS

Best Player
a) Kasper Bennett (ENG)
b) Danielle Bertelli (ITA)
c) Simone Bertelli (ITA)
d) Wolfgang Leitner (AUT)
e) Eric Verhagen (NED)

Best team
a) AS Hennuyer (BEL)
b) Black & Blue Pisa (ITA)
c) San Siro Worthing Five Star (ENG)
d) SC Stembert (BEL)
e) TFC Mattersburg (AUT)

Best female
a) Elodie Berthole (BEL)
b) Delphine Dieudonné (BEL)
c) Magali Doumont (BEL)
d) Francoise Guyot (FRA)
e) Jessica Hardenne (BEL)

Best veteran
a) Martijn Bom (NED)
b) Renzo Frignani (ITA)
c) Erich Hinkelmann (AUT)
d) Giacomo Monica (ITA)
e) Phil Redman (ENG)

Best U19
a) Stefano Buono (ITA)
b) Alexander Haas (AUT)
c) Thomas Karnthaler (AUT)
d) Juan Noguera (ESP)
e) Dominik Schulz (GER)

Best U15
a) Mattia Bellotti (ITA)
b) Kai Hagenkötter (GER)
c) Björn Kegenbein (GER)
d) Ruben Portugues (POR)
e) Jose Maria Rodriguez (ESP)

Best Offical
a) Vincent Coppenolle (BEL)
b) Heinz Eder (AUT)
c) Paul Eyes (USA)
d) Frederic Perdaens (BEL)
e) Fred Vulpes (GER)

Best tournament
a) Athens EC (GRE) - CM: Chris Aggelinas
b) Amsterdam GP (NED) - CM: Robbert Thoen
c) Berlin GP (GER) - CM: Marcus Tilgner
d) Milton Keynes GP (ENG) - CM: Jeremy Bradley
e) Mons Major (BEL) - CM: Olivier Peré

Best referee
a) Alan Collins (ENG)
b) Giorgos Koutis (GRE)
c) Robert Lenz (AUT)
d) Patrick Peltier (BEL)
e) Marcus Tilgner (GER)

Fairest player
a) Stefano Buono (ITA)
b) Juan Noguera (ESP)
c) Nuno Noronha (POR)
d) Phil Redman (ENG)
e) Marcus Tilgner (GER)

For the first time a special award of the lifetime achievement will given in Mons as well !!!

10. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

11. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Grand Prix of Malta (new date) PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
23-24/02/08 - Grand Prix in Odense (DEN) - Jesper Staal-Nielsen - vbt@iafrica.com
24/02/08 - Future in Mechelen (BEL) - Filip Van Hulle - filip@subbuteovlaanderen
01-02/03/08 - Major Mons (BEL) - Olivier Pere - www.ashennuyer.be
08-09/03/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ferdy22@gmail.com - http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
04/05/08 - Grand Prix in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
18/05/08 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
24-25/05/08 - IO in Murau (AUT) - Dieter Dressler - botigers@infinito.it
07-08/06/08 - Grand Prix in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - granadosjc@terra.es
08/06/08 - IO in Vancouver (CAN) - Gurmeet Khaira - warren_Creighton@hotmail.com
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - ngpio@bordfotball.no
05-06/07/08 - Satellite in Dolo (ITA) - Davide Lazzari
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel les.commons@blueyonder.co.uk
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
03/08/08 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - vincent@fistf.com
16-17/08/08 - Major Mattersburg (AUT) - Jelena Radic - vincent@fistf.com

12. Other tournaments
Febrary 16 - National tournament in Stembert (BEL) ; CM: Sébastien Scheen at mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 - stephan.thiele@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
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In this week's issue...

1. Mons will be huge
2. Grand Prix of Denmark
3. FISTF Future of Mechelen
4. FISTF Future of Johannesburg
5. FISTF Future of Johannesburg - Clifford Graaf's report 6. Details of the Belfast Grand Prix (by Eoin Adams) 7. Spanish championship 8. France: national cup 9. Malta Grand Prix 10. Canada: Ontario - CSTFA Tournament Report.
11. Argentina: Serie A kick-off (by Claudio Miscia) 12. USA:   2008 Copa de la Rocha (by Zach Walker) 13. USA:   2008 Queen City Winterfest Cup & Shield (by Zach Walker) 14. USA:   2007/08 ASA Points Race - Top 10 (by Zach Walker) 15. Upcoming ASA  Tournaments (by Zach Walker) 16. Suppliers of material 17. FISTF calendar 18. Other tournaments 19. Contact person in your country

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1. Mons will be huge
The Major of Mons will be held this week-end and there is an amazing field of 216 players and 45 teams registered. It will be one of the biggest tournaments ever and a lot big names will be present. Take a look at the entry list of the tournament website at www.ashennuyer.be

2. Grand Prix of Denmark
Despite the poor attendance of foreign players, last week's FISTF Grand Prix in Odense was another interesting tournament with 44 players taking part. There was no surprise in the Open category with Eric Verhagen beating
Massimo Cremona in the final (2-1) while Robbert Thoen      and Anders Buhl
Hansen reached the semis. The other categories were interesting also with a very close final between Dominik Schulz and Björn Kegenbein in the U19 category (4-4) and Shulz winning on shots. The U15 section was another german affair with Björn Kegenbein beating Marcel Kwiatkowski (2-0). In the veterans, there was a big surprise with Marcus Tilgner beating Henk Landzaat in the semi (3-1) and René Bolte in the final (2-0). René Frey, also from Germany, took the U12 title after beating Nico Wilse (3-0).
In the team event, Sparta Spreeathen 74/82 beat SSG Borussia Bergkamen
(2-1) in the final.
Link: http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... ense08.htm

3. FISTF Future of Mechelen
The first FISTF tournament ever organized in the Flanders (dutch-speaking side of Belgium) was a successful day for the local table football community with the presence of 32 players and 4 teams. In the Open category, Didier Van Renterghem (Brussels SC, 208th in the world rankings) defeated local player Peter Pollaert while Bart Van de Vliet and Jerry De Paron reached the semis. The U15 tournament had 17 entries and young talent Glenn Pollaert defeated Andries De Stuyver in the final to win his first international title. In the veterans, Diederik Boyen won the final against Filip Van Hulle.
Finally, the team event was full of interesting games. Templeuve United (with 3 players) defeated SC Flanders in the semi-final but could beat the top favorite of Brussels SC in the final. Brussels SC, who won the first ever Challenger for team in January, is now in the FISTF history of the first ever winner of a Future for teams.

4. FISTF Future of Johannesburg
The 2nd edition of the FISTF Future of Johannesburg took place last sunday and 9 players took part. As the top 3 Sout African players in the world rankings are now in the top 300, there was a chance to finally stop Clifford Graaff's supremacy in local events. In a very open final, Harold Silber finally defeated Reza Bodiat 5-4 while Max Silber won the U15 tournament.

5. FISTF Future of Johannesburg - Clifford Graaf's report The 24 of February 2008 saw the second Future of Johannesburg  Table Football Tournament under the auspices of both FISTF and SATFA take place at Mark's Park in Johannesburg. The Johannesburg Table Football Club was the organizing club.
A total of nine participants took part which included three novices.
After the group stages the semi finals saw Jason Graaff (after a break of over 20 years) go down fighting by three goals to one to Harold Silber (Harold's third goal has been described as one of the best seen in local games as he converted from the tightest of angles in the top corner of the net).
In the other semi final Reza continued his much-improved form by accounting for junior Max Silber by four goals to nil.
The final paired Reza against Harold which resulted in an epic struggle producing nine scintillating goals. Harold got the final off to a blistering start when a lapse in Reza's defense saw Harold blast the ball in the top corner from just inside the shooting area. Reza's reply was almost immediate as his close control forged a gap in Harold's defense to equalize. This spurred both players on to produce top quality table football which would've graced any tournament final. Harold regained the momentum half way through the first half with a well taken goal only to see Reza rally immediately to once again equalize. Harold then produced a bit of magic as an attempt from his own goal area allowed the ball to be passed to a well positioned striker to net his third goal just before half time.
However Reza was not to be outdone and an intricate move from the half way line allowed him to canon his third goal in from an acute angle shortly after the start of a pulsating second half.
Harold, who was now playing with nerves of steel, once again seized the initiative by splitting Reza's defense with an immaculate through ball from his goal kick to set up a great lob over the keeper to grab a very important lead. Reza through everything in attack in searching for the equalizer. However this allowed gabs to be created in his defense which Harold exploited by once again piecing together a very good move to open up space and set up a great strike to double his lead. Reza's reply was almost instantaneously as Harold failed to clear his area resulting in a quick one-two and a thunderous goal from Reza to set up a grand stand finish.
Time was now running out for Reza who now through everything in attack only to see a very calm Harold defend with aplomb. The final whistle brought an end to a titanic struggle and also heralded in a deserving new Future of Johannesburg champion, namely Harold Silber. However Reza was instrumental in making this final one of the all time greats. A word of thanks must go to both players as the final was contested in a great spirit.
Max Silber capped a great day for the Silber clan by defeating Michael
Fouche in a      thriller which ended in a one-all draw. The resultant
shoot-out saw some great shooting and goalkeeping by Max to keep out a steadily improving Michael and underline his potential as a great young prospect for the future.
Congratulations go out to both the winners and a big round of thanks go to all the participants in making the day a truly enjoyable occasion.

6. Details of the Belfast Grand Prix (by Eoin Adams) The 2008 Belfast International Table Football Grand Prix will be a two-day event, with Individuals on Saturday and Teams on Sunday.
The Park Avenue Hotel will host the event. This venue was used successfully for last season's UK & Ireland Internationals with Belfast City Airport, Belfast Port and City Centre all within 15 minutes by taxi.
Individuals: Saturday 10th May 2008 - Registration 9am, Flick-off 9:30am, Finishing 6pm
Teams: Sunday 11th May 2008 - Registration 9am, Flick-off 9:30am, Finishing 5pm
CATEGORIES: Open £10 ; Veterans £7 ; Youth (U19) £5 ; Teams £20 Further Details:
http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
Entry Form: http://www.freewebs.com/nitfa/belfastgp ... ryform.htm

7. Spanish championship
Carlos Flores won his second consecutive national title after beating Raúl Benita (2-0) in the final of a tournament held in Madrid. Juan Noguera won the U19 title while José Leon defeated Juan Carlos Granados (1-0) to win the veterans title.
The Real Murcia took the team title after beating Asociacion Turia in the final. 6 teams were competing.

8. France: national cup
The french cup was held last week-end in Cholet. Many different categories were organized during the week-end.
FTC Issy took the team title after a close victory against Elbeuf in the final. In the Open tournament, Joël David (Elbeuf) defeated the "legend"
Eric Naszalyi (Issy) 2-1 in the final.Arielle Guyot defeated her sister Françoise Guyot to win the ladies title (1-0) while Jean-Marie Amberny
(Issy) beat Romain Lafontaine (Elbeuf) 4-2 to win the senior title (which was only for the seniors players, which means players aged between 20 and 40). Thierry Vivron (Veterans), Frédéric Berthe (U19), Loïc Trouillard
(U15) and Arnaud Le Teno (U12) were the other winners.
Joël David & Julien Etienvre won the "mixte double" (2 players from different categories together) and Marc Guyot & Rémy Lours won the "Open double" (2 players from the same category together).

9. Malta Grand Prix
The invitation file for the Grand Prix of Malta is now available from Hansel Mallia at www.asr08.com.ar

12. USA:   2008 Copa de la Rocha (by Zach Walker) Lenny Foster  (ID) overcame resurgent Eric Garza (ID) by a score of 2-0 in the final of  the 2008 Copa de la Rocha in Nampa, ID on February 16th.
Eddy McLane (ID)  captured 3rd place by beating Jonathan Smith (ID) 3-1.
BUSL95 now  looks forward to a trip to Utah for a ASA Open hosted by Utah MF on April  13th.  Full results can be found on the tournament website:
http://www.busl95.com/copa.html

13. USA:   2008 Queen City Winterfest Cup & Shield (by Zach Walker) The 1st Annual  Queen City Winterfest Cup was held at the club headquarters in Cincinnati,  Ohio.  This event had a solid turnout for both days of table soccer.   A huge thanks to all who attended for making the trip to Cincinnati.  Good  times were had by all on the pitch and off.  Jeff Drake
(MO) beat  Steve Laskey (OH) 2:2 (SO 5-4) in the final of the Winterfest Cup and the  next day Tim Boone (MO) defeated Steve Laskey 3:1 in the final of the Winterfest  Shield.  Full results can be found here:
http://queencitytsc.googlepages.com/qct ... ntschedule and pictures can be found here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/slsubbuteol ... teoTourney

14. USA:   2007/08 ASA Points Race - Top 10 (by Zach Walker) The ASA Points  Race takes into account each player's best 5 tournament results throughout the  season and at the end of the season the winner is awarded the ASA Points Race  Trophy.  For the full table please click
here:
http://americansubbuteo.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=98
1 Alex Battachi (FL)  - 53
2 Patrick Sheridan  (MD) - 52
3 Zach Walker (VA) -  52
4 Daniel Cranston  (MD) - 51
5 Miguel Marques (CT)  - 51
6 Massimo Conturso  (CT) - 50
7 Lenny Foster (ID) -  50
8 Jim Taylor (CT) -  41
9 Gregg Deinhart (VA)  - 39
10 Steven Laskey (OH)  - 33

15. Upcoming ASA  Tournaments (by Zach Walker) America Cup (FISTF  Tournament) - March 15-16, 2008 - Washington D.C. - http://www.fistf.com/americacup/2008/index.htm
The Brick Tamland  Celebrity Classic (ASA Tournament) - March 29, 2008 - St. Louis, MO - http://www.stlsubbuteo.com/brick08.htm
Rocky Mountain  Shootout (ASA Tournament) - April 13, 2008 - Willard, UT - http://www.busl95.com/rocky.html

16. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

17. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Grand Prix of Malta (new date) PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
01-02/03/08 - Major Mons (BEL) - Olivier Pere - www.ashennuyer.be
15-16/03/08 - America Cup 2008 in Washington D.C. (USA) - Zach Walker - http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
18/05/08 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
24-25/05/08 - IO in Murau (AUT) - Dieter Dressler - botigers@infinito.it
07-08/06/08 - Grand Prix in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - granadosjc@terra.es
08/06/08 - IO in Vancouver (CAN) - Gurmeet Khaira - warren_Creighton@hotmail.com
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - ngpio@bordfotball.no
05-06/07/08 - Satellite in Dolo (ITA) - Davide Lazzari
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel les.commons@blueyonder.co.uk
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
03/08/08 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - vincent@fistf.com
16-17/08/08 - Major Mattersburg (AUT) - Jelena Radic - vincent@fistf.com

18. Other tournaments
Febrary 16 - National tournament in Stembert (BEL) ; CM: Sébastien Scheen at mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 - stephan.thiele@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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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This is the weekly newsletter of the FISTF (Federation of International Sports Table Football).
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In this week's issue...

1. Major of Mons
2. Pitcures of Mons
3. Spanish championship
4. World Cup (by Heinz Eder)
5. ... and the SUBBUTEOscars 2007 goes to...
6. www.flickabout.com supports Jamie Turner (by Fabrizio Ghilardi) 7. Suppliers of material 8. FISTF calendar 9. Other tournaments 10. Contact person in your country

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1. Major of Mons
The 33rd Major in the history of FISTF took place ont he first week-end of March. It was a very big tournament with 44 teams on the saturday, 213 individuals, 12 countries and 46 different clubs among the entries. Running the tournament was also a real challenge for the organizers and dthey did it perfectly.

The team event was full of surprises. We must admit some of the top teams didn't show up with their best players as there were some late drop-outs like Bolognino, Guimaraes and Mettivieri (Napoli), Mattiangeli, De Francesco and Nastasi (Perugia), Lamberti (Reggio Emilia) or Matzinger (Mattersburg). In the barrage round, Mattersburg was defeated by the B-team of AS Hennuyer, which played with their "old legends" like Brau, Ruelle, mairesse, Dieu and Père while Stembert beat Perugia and Temploux defeated CCT Roma. The last 16 round was also full of surprises with Hansel Mallia's golden goal to help AS Hennuyer to beat Hamrun TFC while Roligans beat current european champions of Pisa and Temploux manage to beat Brussels SC thanks to an individual victory of Steve Grégoire over Gil Delogne.

After many close games in the qruarter-finals and the semis, Murcia and Reggio Emilia qualified for the big final. The spanish side dominated the first half but finally the Italians took over in the last 15 minutes to win their 3rd title in a Major thanks to individual victories of Bari and Sousa.

The Open tournament was also of a vey high level with 126 players taking part. Only 2 players from the host countries were still involved during the quarter-finals but finally Belgium managed to surprise many top players thanks to Sami Targui (25 years old, SC Charleroi, 67th in the world ranking). The young Belgian, who lives just a few kilometers away from the venue, managed to beat Stefano Buono, Carlos Flores, Saverio Bari, Robert Lenz and finally Wolfgang Leitner to win his first international tournament in the Open category.

Belgium took also two important titles int he individual categories as Justin Leroy managed to score a golden goal in the U19 final to beat Juan Noguera (Spain) while Elodie Bertholet beat Victoria Büsing (Germany) in the ladies final. Bertholet, 3rd int he world rankings, wins her first Major ever.

Int he veterans, the tournament was dominated by 2 nations as both the Netherlands and Italy had 4 players int he quarter-finals. Finally, it was a full italian story with Severino Gara beating Mauro Manganello to win his 3rd Major after Bologna 2005 & 2007.

In the U15 section, Andrea Manganello did better than his father as he beat Angelo Borg from Malta on shots in the final while Kai Hagenkötter won the
U12 final without playing. His opponent, Federico Solari from italy, had to catch his plane early and couldn't play the game.

As a conclusion, we can say it was a very good tournament and that once again Mons proved to be the place to be for all table football lovers.

Results are available from me by e-mail or from www.subbuteonews.com

2. Pitcures of Mons
Pictures are available at:
www.nsvb.com
http://www.laziotfc.com/?q=image/tid/63
http://subbutempleuve.skyrock.com

3. Spanish championship
There is a video footage of the Spanish Championships at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AydUy8ahXLo

4. World Cup (by Heinz Eder)
The world cup in Vienna is official partner of the EURO 2008 fancamp in Vienna In that EURO 2008 fancamp there is also the possibility to get beds for 38 EUR per night and per person. If you are interested to be close to the EURO
2008 feeling during your stay in Vienna, please contact us.
more information about the fancamp can be found on www.fancamp.eu or on www.tablesoccerworldcup.com , where you can read something about other activities around the World Cup too.

5. ... and the SUBBUTEOscars 2007 goes to...
The SUBBUTEOscars were given last sunday during a small ceremony organized during the Major of Mons. The winners are:
Best Player 2007 – Wolfgang Leitner (Austria) Best Team 2007 – TFC Mattersburg (Austria) Best Female 2007 – Francoise Guyot (France) Best Veteran 2007 – Renzo Frignani (Italy) Best U19 2007 – Stefano Buono (Italy) Best U15 2007 – Björn Kegenbein (Germany) Best Offical 2007 – Heinz Eder (Austria) Best Tournament 2007 – Grand Prix of Amsterdam (Netherlands) CM: Robbert Thoen & Marco de Bruin Best Referee 2007 – Alan Collins (England) Fairest Player 2007 – Nuno Noronha (Portugal) Lifetime Achievement 2007 – Olivier Père (Belgium) Best Newcomer 2007: Mitchell Timmers (Netherlands)

6. www.flickabout.com supports Jamie Turner (by Fabrizio Ghilardi) What you are about to read is not a funny story. It is a bitter, dramatic, sad story. It should make us think. It is the story of any fan of any football team of any country. That he is called Jamie Turner and is a fan of Manchester United is really just a detail. Certainly, not for him and certainly not for his family. The date of 15th May 2005 will remain impressed in Jamie Turner's memory for the rest of his life. Luckily.
Because it means that he still has a life and a memory. And, from the very beginning, it was clear that the risk of losing both was very high. Like so many times as he had done before with his friends, on that damn day Jamie had gone to the away match to support Manchester United, his favourite team. The season's calendar had brought him to the south of the island, to Southampton. Suddenly, however, the day of fun was turned into a nightmare.
A long and painful nightmare. As soon as he arrived in the vicinity of the stadium, he was attacked from behind by a group of fans of the local team and in a moment he found himself on the ground, hit on the head and unconscious. His skull had caved in, was fractured from ear to ear and the whole business was complicated by a brain haemorrhage. Immediately assisted and taken to the neurosurgical department of Southampton hospital, he had a whole section of his skull removed to facilitate the operation required to stop the haemorrhage. His family was immediately informed of his critical condition which was such as be seriously lifethreatening. For three weeks Jamie Turner was in a coma suspended between life and death. When he did awake it was immediately obvious that his brain has been gravely damaged and that if he ever did recover it would have taken some time, seeing as how Jamie has awakened with the mind of a five year old child. His wife and children stayed by his bedside trying to stimulate the recovery of his mental faculties and trying to discover what information he still possessed, as practically nothing of his life was initially present in his memory files: Jamie was just about able to read, but not to write, he had aphasia, an alteration of the language faculty, his voice was monotonous and his capacity of expression very limited. And that was not all: Jamie was paralyzed on one side of his body and in spite of every effort, his left arm and hand were blocked and, by not  transmitting the correct signals to his brain, his left eye denied him full capacity of sight.
Terrible migraines and a constant sense of fatigue worsened his case history. After numerous operations and much rehabilitation, with tens of specialists from various sectors of medical science, in August 2006 Jamie Turner was finally operated on once more to fix his broken skull with the insertion of a plaque to replace the piece of skullcap that had been removed in May 2005. This was necessary to protect the part of his brain where the blows had damaged it most. A few moments was all it took to make him a vegetable and years were needed to help him to recover a semblance of normality that will never be total. And above all so much suffering and unbelievable expenses. Jamie is still not able to work; he suffers from problems of sight, depression and constant migraines. And he has a great need to sleep and rest. But Jamie Turner's story does not end here. Thanks to the help of his family, his friends, the fans of Manchester United and many nameless people, Jamie has  ecovered. Slowly, but he has recovered. On 11th January last, Manchester United Football Club invited him with his family to meet the players of his favourite team on the occasion of the work-out before the following day's match. And on 12th January, Jamie Turner returned to the Old Trafford. The United players had promised him an intense match, dedicated to him and his family. A victory, all for them.
And that was how it went: Manchester United won 6-0 against Newcastle.
Jamie, overcome with emotion, returned for a few moments to being a normal man, forgetting his great suffering. And so, for now, we come to the end of a tragic story of a football fan, cowardly attacked by someone who left him almost dead on the ground. Action Now – Play old style has decided to offer its own small contribution of economic assistance to the Turner family.
Over the next few days, in agreement with Jamie Turner and his family, some photographic works donated by the Swedish artist Charlotta Smeds – works that were shown in the Photographic Exhibition 'Flick about' and that portray Subbuteo players of Manchester United – will be auctioned. The proceeds of the auction will be given to the Fund that was created especially for Jamie. Because even a small offering can contribute to assisting a great man and a great fan.
Jamie Turner.
Links: www.actionnow-playoldstyle.com - www.jamieturner.org.uk

7. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

8. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Grand Prix of Malta (new date) PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
15-16/03/08 - America Cup 2008 in Washington D.C. (USA) - Zach Walker - http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
18/05/08 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
24-25/05/08 - IO in Murau (AUT) - Dieter Dressler - botigers@infinito.it
07-08/06/08 - Grand Prix in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - granadosjc@terra.es
08/06/08 - IO in Vancouver (CAN) - Gurmeet Khaira - warren_Creighton@hotmail.com
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - ngpio@bordfotball.no
05-06/07/08 - Satellite in Dolo (ITA) - Davide Lazzari
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel les.commons@blueyonder.co.uk
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
03/08/08 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - vincent@fistf.com
16-17/08/08 - Major Mattersburg (AUT) - Jelena Radic - vincent@fistf.com

9. Other tournaments
Febrary 16 - National tournament in Stembert (BEL) ; CM: Sébastien Scheen at mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 - stephan.thiele@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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 (1-195) 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. Satellite in Sardagna, Italy
2. Belgian cup
3. Handpainted teams
5. Open of Vancouver - details
6. Suppliers of material
7. FISTF calendar
8. Other tournaments
9. Contact person in your country

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Sorry of there isn't much this week in the newsletter but as there was no FISTF tournament last week-end, there isn't much to comment. There will be more next week as the America's Cup is taking place for the first time next week-end in Washington, DC. Good luck to all competitors.

1. Satellite in Sardagna, Italy
The invitation files are now available at:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)

2. Belgian cup
A few surprises occured during the belgian cup held in brussels last week-end. Christophe Dheur (Stembert) defeated Valéry dejardin( Rochefort) 1-0 (golden goal) in the final to win the trophy for the first time. Dheur had previously beaten Sami targui, winner of the recent FISTF Major of Mons. Int he other categories, winners were Steve Grégoire (Veterans), Magali Doumont (Ladies), Jérôme Bertrand (U19), Jérémy Gosset (U15) and Jérôme Vandevenne (U12).

3. Handpainted teams
There is a new website selling handpainted teams at http://subbuteohandpainting.webs.com/

4. "The Hobby" on the web
Clifford Borg-Marks's documentary "The Hobby" can now be viewed for free online on Babelgum.com (direct link is http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=113338). The online television site offers very high quality streaming of the film. People who haven't seen it yet would do well to go there first before they decide if they want to buy a DVD. The site requires downloading of the Babelgum software and registration. Both the download and the registration are free. Apart from Clifford's movie there are also many other worthwhile programs to watch on this site.

5. Open of Vancouver - details
FISTF - International Open of Vancouver - Surrey B.C. - Canada
Date: June 8th, 2008
Location: Surrey, B.C. Canada ( suburb of Vancouver )
Venue: Yoga Studio
202 - 14620 - 64th ave
Surrey, B.C.
Canada
Host Club: Colebrook Subbuteo Club
Organizers: Warren Creighton - tctberting@hotmail.com Web Site: http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/

6. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

7. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Grand Prix of Malta (new date) PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
15-16/03/08 - America Cup 2008 in Washington D.C. (USA) - Zach Walker - http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
18/05/08 - Satellite in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
24-25/05/08 - IO in Murau (AUT) - Dieter Dressler - botigers@infinito.it
07-08/06/08 - Grand Prix in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - granadosjc@terra.es
08/06/08 - IO in Vancouver (CAN) - Terry Berting - warren_Creighton@hotmail.com - http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - ngpio@bordfotball.no
05-06/07/08 - Satellite in Dolo (ITA) - Davide Lazzari
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel les.commons@blueyonder.co.uk
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
03/08/08 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - vincent@fistf.com
16-17/08/08 - Major Mattersburg (AUT) - Jelena Radic - vincent@fistf.com

8. Other tournaments
April 26/27 - Italian championships for clubs (day 2) August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com

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 (new) CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk (updated) FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Stephan Thiele - joebonfi@gibtelecom.net & jsiout@profis.gr - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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)
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118841515 (ICQ)
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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.
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 (1-196) 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).

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

In this week's issue...

1. America Cup 2008 - A Success! (from our contact person in the US) 2. Calendar 2008-2009 3. Special website for FISTF Awards SUBBUTEOscar 4. About the FISTF forum 5. Grand Prix of Norway 6. Satellite of Stembert 7. USA: Satellite in Richland, WA 8. Belgian league for clubs (by Philippe Hipfinger) 9. More tournaments in Austria 10. Canada: Ontario - Frankford Blizzard CSTFA Tournament 11. Austrian individual championship (by Christian Blümel) 12. USA: Wayne Smith Wins the Southern California Open (by Kevin Nieman) 13. France: national results 14. Portugal: national championships for categories 15. Scotland: scottish circuit 16. England: english Masters (by Jeremy Bradley) 17. Subbuteo mugs 18. For those who like football logos 19. Suppliers of material 20. FISTF calendar 21. Other tournaments 22. Contact person in your country

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1. America Cup 2008 - A Success! (from our contact person in the US) Now that the first ever FISTF North American Continental Cup, aka America Cup 2008 has passed, it can definitely be viewed as a great success.  The level of play, organization and sportsmanship was at an all time high here in the US with some great results.  In this first edition, the Paul Eyes Table Soccer Academy, aka Maryland Subbuteo Club walked away as the big winners, getting their revenge over their Old Firm rival, Subbuteo Club of Connectict.

The team final was the highlight of the weekend with one of the most intense, well played team matches ever on American soil.  The youngsters from Maryland SC came up big getting some clutch wins in their matches (Cranston 3-0 over Conturso and Sheridan 2-0 over Taylor) which proved to be the difference in the match and hand the title and coveted America Cup to the club from Maryland.

In the Open, Zach Walker managed to top the extremely tough field with very close matches in the quarter finals and semi finals against Tillman and Conturso.  3 past ASA National Champions in Walker, Deinhart and Wilcox all were in attendance, showing how much depth there was in the playing field.  Also notable was the great play of U19 US Champion Patrick Sheridan who at the age of only 17, managed to make the final in the Open category over the tough field.

In the U-19 category, a massive 26 players came out to fight for the title as top youngster and as most commonly has happened, the Maryland SC youngsters rose to the top, but this time it was Daniel Cranston topping his good friend and clubmate Patrick Sheridan in a very close and tight final 2-1 in extra time.  The level of play in the youth category shows how the hard work of Paul Eyes and co. is paying off as more and more youth are playing the game every year and are becoming better and better, both challenging each other and also the players in the Open category.

And lastly in the Veterans category it came down to a re-match of the 2007 US National Veterans Final between Paul Eyes and Gregg Deinhart.  This time Eyes got his revenge by edging out Deinhart in yet another close game, winning on shots to claim top spot in this category at the America Cup.

All in all it was yet another great weekend of table soccer in the U.S., showing that the level of play, organization and interest for this great game is increasing with every day.  Plans are already being discussed for an America Cup 2009 so make sure to stay tuned for that as North Americans are hoping to make this an annual event, hopefully enticing players from all over the continent to attend.

Many thanks to the FISTF BoD and community for supporting their friends from the Western Hemisphere and providing them the opportunity to host their first ever Continental Cup!

2. Calendar 2008-2009
A few dates are already know for next season:
Europa Cup for Club Teams 25-26/10/2008
Major of London 31/01 & 01/02/2009
Major of Mons 07-08/03/2009
World Cup in the Netherlands 05-06/09/2009

3. Special website for FISTF Awards SUBBUTEOscar Here is the new website just only for the FISTF Awards matters.
http://freenet-homepage.de/gleitzeit/index.htm
Congratulations to Thossa Büsing for his great work. Feedback can be sent to heinz.eder@fistf.com

4. About the FISTF forum
Some people noticed the less number of users on FISTF forum. How comes? In the older forum we had more people who discussed. What can we do to attrack people to this good communication tool. Maybe an announced fixed meeting-time at the forum with a slogan on www.fistf.com or in the weekly newsletter can help. Monday evening 8 pm (MET) could be a good time (because about 24 hrs after a FISTF tournament weekend) or Thursday evening
8 pm (MET) short before the next FISTF tournament. It's just an idea so everyone is welcome to joint he forum at this time of the week to discuss the actuality of table football.
Thanks to Thossa Büsing for the great idea.
Link: www.fistf.com/forum

5. Grand Prix of Norway
The schedule of the tournament has been modified. There will be a Grand Prix for teams ont he saturday and a Grand Prix for individuals on sunday.
If times allows it, there might be an Open for individuals on saturday as well.
The tournament website is http://www.bordfotball.no/gp/

6. Satellite of Stembert
The invitation file is now available from Sébastien Scheen at lennyfoster@gmail.com

8. Belgian league for clubs (by Philippe Hipfinger) The final of the belgian Championship was held today near Verviers in Petit-Rechain. This is the final ranking :
1. SC Charleroi 36 pts
2. SC Stembert 35 pts
3. JSC Rochefort 30 pts
4. ASH 28 pts
5. SC Temploux 26 pts
6. Brussels SC 24 pts (better average on individual matches) 7. SC Verviers 24 pts 8. Templeuve United 4 pts 9. Tournai 2 pts

Some facts :
- SC Charleroi played only with 3 players the last day, and took 3 points of of 12...only winning against Tournai (with 3 players also)
- ASH and Stembert took 12 points out of 12 on the last day !
- Tournai finished the league on a positive note by drawing against Verviers !
- Charleroi and Stembert are qualified for the Europa Cup !
- Rochefort should probably get his ticket also as Charleroi should be qualified via the World Ranking
- ASH will also qualify though the ranking for the EC

The Division 2 was won by Stembert B, in front of SC Jambes, second which is promoted into D1. The rest of the ranking of the D2 is :
3. Temploux B
4. SC Flanders
5. Rochefort B
6. Brussels SC B
7. Charleroi B

9. More tournaments in Austria
TFC Mattersburg will organize a few more tournaments this season.
- a Satellite on May 17
- a Future on May 18
- an Open for teams on June 21
- an Open for individuals on June 22
Contact: Günter Exler at http://socalsubbuteo.googlepages.com

13. France: national results
The national tournament of the "Comité Île-de-France" was played last sunday. Here are the main results:
Open: Jean-Marie AMBERNY beat Axel Donval 4-2 ; Semi-finalists: Emmanuel Gorgette (1-5) & Thomas Ponté (1-4)
Seniors: Axel DONVAL beat Nicolas Wlodarczyk 4-3 (sudden death) ;
Semi-finalists: Emmanuel Gorgette & Jean-Marie Amberny (0-1)
Veterans: Thierry VIVRON beat Gilles Herbaut
Ladies: Françoise GUYOT beat Arielle Guyot
U15: Rimy GUYOT beat Arnaud Le Teno 3-3 (shots 2-1)

14. Portugal: national championships for categories
2008 Portuguese Champions are:
Sub-12 - Otávio Prates
Sub-15 - Nuno Ribeiro
Sub-19 - Ruben Português
Veteranos - Nuno Noronha
Full information about the event at APS website - http://apssubbuteo.no.sapo.pt and Livre Indirecto Online - http://livreindirecto2.blogs.sapo.pt/

15. Scotland: scottish circuit
The sixth event of the Scottish Championship was played in Dumfries on 16 March the final positions were as follows:
1. MIKE BURNS ; 2. GARETH CHRISTIE ; 3. JIM LAW ; 4. STEVE BENNETT ; 5.
DARYL SHANKS ; 6. IAIN BELL ; 7. ALAN MANSON ; 8. DAVE BUTLER ; 9. NICOLE KETTLES ; 10. ANDREAS ANDRONI ; 11. BAVER BARI ; 12. LAURA HANRATTY.

16. England: english Masters (by Jeremy Bradley) Well done to Chris Thomas on retaining his title with a 4-0 win in the final against Matt Lampitt. Full results up later, for the moment here are the final positions:
1. Chris Thomas
2. Matt Lampitt
3. Dave Pawsey
4. Chris Short
5. Steve Hawkins
6. Dave Russell
7. Martin Hodds
8. Jeremy Bradley
9. Simon Bryan
10. Paul Lawrenson
Did not play: Kasper Bennett, Victor Jones.

17. Subbuteo mugs
http://www.johnlewis.com/230465494/Prod ... urce=13597

18. For those who like football logos
Here is a recommended website run by Johnny Beaufays, one of our belgian
players: http://www.vflnet.com

19. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

20. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Grand Prix of Malta (new date) PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
22-23/03/08 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alex Popoff - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
05-06/04/08 - Grand Prix in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
12-13/07/08 - IO in London (ENG) - Les Commons - vincent@fistf.com
19-20/07/08 - IO Individuals/GP Teams in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - Vincent.coppenolle@assur.cbc.be (work)
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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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All Rights Reserved.
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All Rights Reserved.
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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. Grand Prix of Beausoleil
2. News from SS Lazio Roma TFC (by Andrea Lampis) 3. http://le-premiere.blogspot.com/ is back (by zi-zinho) 4. Classic Subbuteo (by Stefano De Francesco) 5. Suppliers of material 6. FISTF calendar 7. Other tournaments 8. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
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1. Grand Prix of Beausoleil
The 9th tournament of Beausoleil, which was the Grand prix of france this season, took place last week-end. Players from Monaco, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Germany and England were taking part. On the saturday, the team event was dominated by the players from Stella Artois Milano. The italians beat the current european champions of Black & Blue Pisa (Simone Bertelli was absent) in the final (3-1). In the veterans tournament, it was an italian affair with an interesting final between Paolo Finardi and Giacomo Monica (3-2). Jérôme Herbecq (Belgium) also won the U19 section. In the open category, 36 players were taking part and there were many close games. In the semi-finals, Daniele Bertelli beat Nicolas Wlodarczyk (on sudden death) while Saverio Bario beat Stefano Capossela (1-0). In the final, the sudden death decided the winner again and Daniele Bertelli beat Saverio Bario (3-2).

2. News from SS Lazio Roma TFC (by Andrea Lampis) Last week S.S. Lazio TFC "graduated" 3 regional champions (Lazio region), all in the most promising categories, those where the youngest players and promises are who take the center stage. Diego Tagliaferri won the Under 15 category event, Giulia Tagliaferri the women competition and Elder Maida the Under 12. Also, Cascioli reached the semifinal in the Veterans. The club thus keeps its high profile towards the Serie D teams finals that will take place in Fiumicino (Rome) on April 26-27. In this final that will grant two places in third division (Serie C) to the first ranked and to the winner of the barrage between the second and the third of the whole lot, S.S. Lazio TFC will have to face good teams such as Anacapri, CT Imperia, Faenza, Real Maremma, SC Pierce 14 Altavilla Monferrato, Siracusa, Subbuteo Team Sassari, Subbuteisti Modena and Ternana. S.S. Lazio TFC will be present in Barcellona at the FISTF event.

3. http://le-premiere.blogspot.com/ is back (by zi-zinho) "After a long time busy with business travels due to our jobs, Le-Premiere is proud to announce the return to the table football world. After considering several ideas and opinions about how to make different and attractive this blog, we have decided to add news and stories about other interesting and important sports, but mainly about our exciting game:
Subbuteo. If you can support us with news or stories about table football, please don´t hesitate to send us an email to info@protechsrl.it

5. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

6. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
29-30/03/08 - IO in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
12-13/07/08 - IO in London (ENG) - Les Commons - vincent@fistf.com
19-20/07/08 - IO Individuals/GP Teams in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 - stephan.thiele@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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)
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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.
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 (1-198) 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.
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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. Open of Milton Keynes
2. World Cup hotels
3. FISTF awards (by Thossa Büsing)
4. Message from the newly elected Chairman of the South African Table Football Association 5. Subbuteo fair in Rome 6. Grand Prix of South Africa 7. Open of Austria 8. France: Open of Normandie 9. Scottish GP entry list 10. Suppliers of material 11. FISTF calendar 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country



1. Open of Milton Keynes
Real Murcia was on fire last week-end whent he 3 men team managed to win the FISTF Open of Milton Keynes (England). The spanish side beat Olympia
(Greece) in a close finale (2-1). In the team event, Chris Thomas (San
Siro) beat Angel Valverde in the final thanks to a golden goal coming after a scoreless game.
Other titles were awarded to Juan Carlos Granados (veterans) and Bjorn Kegenbein (U15).
Congratulations and special thansk to the organizers for managing to run the Open category with groups of 5 and managing to offer many games to all entrants. Well done!

2. World Cup hotels
There is a list of hotels for the World Cup 2008 at http://www.em-08.info/hotels/hotel_wien/

3. FISTF awards (by Thossa Büsing)
Till April 14th it is possible to vote for FISTF Awards SUBBUTEOscar 2008 for the 1st quarter. Votings will be announced on the website at http://freenet-homepage.de/gleitzeit/index.htm
Contact: cgraaff@skyegroup.co.za.
We are also looking at establishing partnerships with other associations for the development of table football across all borders.'

Clifford Graaff
Chairman – South African Table Football Association

5. Subbuteo fair in Rome
There will be a Subbuteo fair iin Rome, Italy on April 19-20. Address of the venue: Palazzo SS. Apostoli Roma, Via del Vaccaro, 9 (angolo Piazza della  Pilotta). Schedule: 10.00 am-8.00 pm.
Details: http://glasgowgp.110mb.com/entryi.htm
and teams here:
http://glasgowgp.110mb.com/entryt.htm

10. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

11. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
29-30/03/08 - IO in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
12-13/07/08 - IO in London (ENG) - Les Commons - vincent@fistf.com
19-20/07/08 - IO Individuals/GP Teams in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 - stephan.thiele@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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 (1-199) 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. Grand Prix of Amsterdam
2. Major of Bologna
3. www.fistf.com
4. Grand Prix of Argentina (by Claudio Miscia) 5. The USA at the World Cup 6. Future and Challenger in Catania 7. Current list of suspended players 8. Canada: Alberta - Results 9. African Table Football Association 10. Transfer news 11. The funny link of the week 12. Suppliers of material 13. FISTF calendar 14. Other tournaments 15. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Grand Prix of Amsterdam
127 players took part in last week-end's Grand Prix of the Netherlands.
Many top players were present and many surprised occured. Finally Saverio Bari won the Open final against Giorgos Koutis (1-0). The Austrians of Mattersburg won the team title after they beat Falcons Athens in a close final (2-1 sudden death). Here are the results of the individual finals:
Open : Saverio Bari - Giorgos Koutis 1-0 Veterans : Martijn Bom - Erich Hinkelmann 3-1 Under 19 : Michael Denooz - Domenick Schulz 1-0 Under 15 : Mitchell Timmers - Kai Hagenkotter 1-0 Ladies : Magalie Doumont - Victoria Busing 2-0 All results at http://www.amsterdam-tournament.nl/Resu ... ix2008.htm

2. Major of Bologna
The registrations for the tournament are now open. You can find all details at www.bolognatigers.com

3. www.fistf.com
All the official announcements are available now ont he website, which means all disciplinary sanctions will be published and updated on www.fistf.com

4. Grand Prix of Argentina (by Claudio Miscia) Inscriptions are open for the first Grand Prix of Argentina, to be held in Rosario on May 3rd-4th. The competition has been declared by the city council "sport event of municipal interest" and has been organized by Asociación Subbuteo Rosario 2008 with the support of Verbano, Flickmaster, Flickteams, Dante Alighieri Rosario, Montecchiarini, Cervantes and Le Rondini . The winner will be awarded with the pretigious porcelain-made Verbano Cup, especially designed for the competition; winners of the categories Veterans, Feminine, Under 15, Under 12 will receive a porcelain Zelda Cup. More details, the official poster, the competition rules, tips and help to organize the trip to Argentina, are published on www.asr08.com.ar in Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. Write to subbuteoclubcatania@libero.it

7. Current list of suspended players
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following players are suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE) and Lazaros Papakonstantinou (GRE).

8. Canada: Alberta - Results
Brian Redmond won the "WorldTableSoccer March  Madness Cup" after beating Tim Van Dijk (1-0) in the final of a 6 players tournament.

9. African Table Football Association
Clifford Graaff from South Africa is currently trying to create the African Table Football Association. The formation of the African Table Football Association will promote and foster relations between african countries and even afford the opportunities to organize Continental Championships on the african continent. Where possible South Africa can assist with development of this game, especially amongst their neighbours.
Ideas and proposals are welcome at http://apps.facebook.com/ghostracer/?referrer=704438282

12. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

13. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
29-30/03/08 - IO in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
12-13/07/08 - IO in London (ENG) - Les Commons - vincent@fistf.com
19-20/07/08 - IO Individuals/GP Teams in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 - stephan.thiele@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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 (1-200) 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. Grand Prix/Open of Charleroi
2. Grand Prix of Italy (by Enrico Guidi) 3. Grand Prix of Scotland 4. The World Cup in South Africa?
5. France - tournament in Chamaret
6. England: subbuteo for Tottenham fans (by Kevin Mason) 7. About the Satellite of Cagliari (by Luca Licheri) 8. Argentina - Newcomers cup in Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) 9. Current list of suspended players 10. Suppliers of material 11. FISTF calendar 12. Other tournaments 13. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Grand Prix/Open of Charleroi
The Grand Prix of Belgium for teams took place last week in Charleroi. Only
13 teams were taking part and 4 belgian teams reached the semi-finals.
Stembert and AS Hennuyer lors in the semis while Charleroi beat Brussels on goal-difference in the final. In the individual tournament, there were many interesting games and Gil Delogne beat Alain hanotiaux to win the Open final (1-0). Other winners were René Bolte (Veterans), Elodie Bertholet (Ladies), Jerrel Van Keimpema (U19), Mitchell Timmers (U15) and Kenny De Schuyteneer (U12).

2. Grand Prix of Italy (by Enrico Guidi) For the Italian GP, the official e-mail will be:
www.romegp.blogspot.com The Italian GP this year will be named EXTREME WORK CUP for TEAM and INDIVIDUAL.

3. Grand Prix of Scotland
The tournament has been rescheduled. There will be an International Open for individuals also on the sunday.
Contact: Mike Burns at www.myair.com For bookings contact me via mail or phone: www.CagliariCalcioTavolo.net

8. Argentina - Newcomers cup in Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) In view of the first Grand Prix of Argentina, to be held in Rosario on May 3rd-4th, the local Asociación Subbuteo Rosario 2008 launched a special cup to prepare newcomers to the hobby to play in the Gran Prix. All players who ever won any prize in table football are not admitted to the Copa Principiantes 2008: on the other hand they are welcome to help new players and less experienced players to have fun with the game, to learn the rules, to play their games. The local Radio Corazón, through the program "Il cittadino", organized the competition, which is free of charge and with no request of being members of ASR08.

9. Current list of suspended players
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following players are suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE) and Lazaros Papakonstantinou (GRE).

10. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 Profibase - 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

11. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
29-30/03/08 - IO in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl - www.amsterdam-tournament.nl
12-13/04/08 - GP Teams/IO Individuals in Chaleroi (BEL) - Vito Di Ruggiero
- domenico.scaminante@gmail.com
20/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
12-13/07/08 - IO in London (ENG) - Les Commons - vincent@fistf.com
19-20/07/08 - IO Individuals/GP Teams in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - mike@worldtablesoccer.com
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 (new) GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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. Future and Challenger of Catania
2. Reminder of the rules
3. Belgium: national championships
4. London Open cancelled
5. ProfiBase news
6. Satellite of Singapore
7. Belfast Grand Prix
8. Edimburgh Open cancelled
9. Norway: national championships (by Terje Ellefsen) 10. Spain: tournament in Collbató (Barcelona) 11. Germany: Berliner Bären Pokal (by Marcus Tilgner) 12. Portugal: ladies championship 13. South Africa: Johannesburg Table Football Club 14. Current list of suspended players 15. Suppliers of material 16. FISTF calendar 17. Other tournaments 18. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Future and Challenger of Catania
Both tournaments were held last week-end and both were very successful. The final was the same on both day and Enrico testa won the 2 tournaments after close finals agains Giuseppe Guzzetta. During the Future, there was a U15 category with 20 players taking part and Emanuele Lo Cascio won final against Ernesto Gentile from San Franscesco Paola.

2. Reminder of the rules
"Some italian players ask me to insist on the rule about the Flick-off.
Here is a reminder of the rule 4.2.
The playing figures of each player shall be positioned completely in their own half of the playing-area with the defender having no playing figure positioned inside the center-circle or touching the center-circle line."
-> This means that in no case the figures can touch the middle-line
-> during
the flick-off.

3. Belgium: national championships
The national championships took place last week-end in Mons. Gil Delogne
(Brussels) is the new national champion and Valéry Dejardin (Rochefort) is 2nd of the Serie A league. Then Come Ludovic Ponthieux, Nathan Dupont, Antoine Dikaios, Ludovic Ponthieux, David Fraikin, David Leroy, Delphine Dieudonné, Sébastien Scheen, Laurent COucke and Philippe Hipfinger. In the "Serie B", Arnaud Robillard (Rochefort) is champion and Damien Denooz
(Stembert) is 2nd. Ludovic Migeot (Charleroi) is champion in Serie C.
Michaël Denooz (Stembert) is U19 champion (Rémy Huyhn is 2nd and Renald Deloose 3rd) and Kevin Beckers (Stembert) is U15 champion. In the veterans, the top 3 are Steve Gregoire (1, Temploux), Jos Ceulemans (2, SC Flanders) and Bart van de Vliet (3, SC Flanders). In the U12 section, David Vantassel (AS Hennuyer) beat teamate in a test-match to win the tile after bith players ended the league with 27 points. Kenny De Schuyteneer (Brussels
United) ends 3rd with 25 points. There was no competition for the ladies.

4. London Open cancelled
The english association has confirmed that the International Open of London (July 12 & 13) is cancelled.

5. ProfiBase news
www.profibase.eu announces that all their metal goalkeepers are not respecting the legal measures of 21 mm (maximal distance between the hands).

6. Satellite of Singapore
The Satellite of Singapore is rescheduled to July 27, 2008

7. Belfast Grand Prix
The organizers announce that there will also be an International Open on sunday. Details at http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm

8. Edimburgh Open cancelled
Due to the change in the program of the Scottish GP in Glasgow, the scottish association has decided not to organize an Open on July 19 & 20.

9. Norway: national championships (by Terje Ellefsen) Lars Tore Myge (San Siro) won the Norwegian Championship beating Jon Henning Bergane (Skien Wildcats) 2-1 inthe final. A disappointing 12 players only participated in the event. In the picture: Myge scoring one of his goals in the final (picture by T. Ellefsen). Norwegian U19 Champion was Håkon Lunde and in the Veteran category Martin Eikeland was crown Champion.
For more info see http://bordfotball.noand also http://kbfk.blogspot.com/(Norwegian club blog).

10. Spain: tournament in Collbató (Barcelona) Real Murcia won the national tournament on Collbató, near Barcelona. They beat FT Turia 1981 in the final (3-1). In the open tournament, three players from Murcia reached the semis but Carlos Flores (Bologna) won the final against Angel Valverde (2-1).

11. Germany: Berliner Bären Pokal (by Marcus Tilgner) Last weekend the traditional Bären Pokal had been held in Berlin.
Twenty-one players from three countries enjoyed a great weekend of table-football in a really friendly atmosphere. Played to the old rules, each game 40 minutes, 25mm balls and completely without referees the tournament again showed the beauty of that style to the participants ...
At the end Jesper Staal Nielsen defended his title against surprise finalist René Schulz from Berlin. The final saw a great comeback from the Danish player since he had been already 1-4 down before he could finally win with 7-6 after extra-time. The final of the youth competition was a close fight between Kristian Staal Nielsen and Björn Kegenbein. At the end the Odense player took the title with a well deserved 2-1 victory.
Full results are online at
http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/baeren/baeren-08.htm
Players who are interested in taking part in next years edition shall note the weekend of May 30th/31st ... we are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin

12. Portugal: ladies championship
Carla Conceição beat sister Vânia Conceição (3-2 & 2-1) in a 2-games league to win the Portuguese title.

13. South Africa: Johannesburg Table Football Club Johannesburg Table Football Club has a brand new website:
http://jhbtfc.wetpaint.com  or www.jhbtfc.wetpaint.com

14. Current list of suspended players
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following players are suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE) and Lazaros Papakonstantinou (GRE).

15. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

16. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
26-27/04/08 - Grand Prix in Glasgow (SCO) - Mike Burns - scheen.s@skynet.be
01/05/07 - Satellite of Cagliari (ITA) - Luca Licheri - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
27/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 (new) GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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]

Korjaus edelliseen


5. ProfiBase news
www.profibase.eu announces that all their metal goalkeepers are NOW respecting the legal measures of 21 mm (maximal distance between the hands).



Sorry for the typing (and important) typing mistake.

Vincent

[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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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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All Rights Reserved.
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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. Grand Prix and Open of Glasgow
2. Belfast GP schedule (by Eoin Adams)
3. Bob Varney takes part in the "London to Paris Bike Ride"
4. Argentina: Dante Alighieri Involved in Subbuteo? Only in Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) 5. Italy: national championships for teams 6. France: tournament in Les Herbiers 7. Current list of suspended players 8. Suppliers of material 9. FISTF calendar 10. Other tournaments 11. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Grand Prix and Open of Glasgow
The 12th Grand Prix of Scotland took place last week-end in Glasgow.
Despite there was only one non-british player, it was a great tournament.
In the individual Grand Prix, Chris Short beat Kasper Bennett in the final (2-0). Steve Hawklins won the veterans tournament. San Siro Worthing 5 Star took the team title after beating Hot Club d'Ecosse in the final. On sunday, Chris Thomas won the Open tournament after defeating Matt Lampitt in the final.

2. Belfast GP schedule (by Eoin Adams)
We will now be holding the Grand Prix for teams on Saturday 10th May instead of Sunday 11th May. If it's not too late, can you please add this information to the FISTF newsletter.

Saturday 10th May
Grand Prix for Individuals
Grand Prix for Teams

Sunday 11th May
International Open for Individuals

3. Bob Varney takes part in the "London to Paris Bike Ride"
Hello,
I thought that you might like to know that I'm taking part in the London to Paris Bike Ride on 27/07/2008 to raise money for Big Issue Foundation and would really welcome your support.
I was wondering if you might consider sponsoring me?  It's really easy - you can donate online by credit or debit card at the following address:
http://www.justgiving.com/bobvarney
All donations are secure and sent electronically to Big Issue Foundation.
If you are a UK taxpayer, Justgiving will automatically reclaim 28% Gift Aid on your behalf, so your donation is worth even more.
Please join me in supporting Big Issue Foundation and a fabulous cause.
Thanks you in anticipation.
Kind Regards,
Bob

4. Argentina: Dante Alighieri Involved in Subbuteo? Only in Rosario (by Claudio Miscia)
 The important school Dante Alighieri of Rosario, Argentina, hosted a demonstration of table football to the students. Initially programmed in two turns of 30 minutes each, the demonstration actually lasted more than 4 hours, due to the great enthusiasm showed by students and teachers. More than 100 people could see the game and more than 20 actually had their first ticks, following the instructions and explanations of the headquarters of the local Subbuteo Association, ASR08, Paolo, Roberto, Benedetto and Vanesa, who mounted two tables in the school. Many of these people were induced to announce their participation to the Newcomers Cup (April 26th) , which has been organized in order to duly launch the first Grand Prix of Argentina, to be held in Rosario on May 3rd-4th (see www.asr08.com.ar and click on Gran Prix Argentina 2008 to see the presentation page in four languages.

5. Italy: national championships for teams Exciting subbuteo weekend lived in Fiumicino (Italy) in the final round of the Italian League (Serie A, B,C and D). Black&Blue Pisa won the Serie A, this year stronger than never, with Reggio Emilia in second position just one point below of Pisa. Dissapointment for Eagles Napoli who finished in 6th position, and happiness for Bolognawho reached the 4th position and made the best position in Serie A ever. Palermoended in the bottom and will be relegated to Serie B.

Serie A table: 1 Black&Blue Pisa 41 ; 2 ASD F.LLI Bari 40 ; 3 Perugia 33 ;
4 BolognaTigers 28 ; 5 Stella Artois 27 ; 6 Eagles Napoli 24 ; 7 Black Rose
17 ; 8 Falconara 17 ; 9 Bari 10 ; 10 Palermo 10.

In the Serie B, Roma and Torinoaccomplished with the role of favourite to get the promotion to Serie A, and the surprise was in Ascoli who also get the promotion. Dissapointment for Sessana who lost the promotion place in the last game. Fiamme Azzurre avoided the relegation to Serie C while Cataniadidn´t it well enough and ended in the bottom, being relegated to Serie C.

Serie B table: 1 Roma 40 ; 2 Warriors Torino 37 ; 3 Ascoli 33 ; 4 Sessana
32 ; 5 Cagliari 23 ; 6 Biella 23 ; 7 Virtus 4 Strade 23 ; 8 Fiamme Azzurre
17 ; 9 Leonessa Brescia 13 ; 10 Catania 12.

Other Divisions:
Serie C table: 1 Firenze *22 ; 2 Ferrara 22 ; 3 Cosenza 22 ; 4 Gorizia 17 ;
5 Bergamo 12 ; 6 Spezia 12 ; 7 Napoli 2000 12 ; 8 S.Francesco Paola 12 ; 9 Asti 0 ; 10 Spes Solarium 0.

Serie D table: 1 Modena 23 ; 2 Imperia 19 ; 3 Lazio19 ; 4 Real Maremma 18 ; Ternana 12 ; 6 Faenza 11 ; 7 Sassari 10 ; 8 Anacapri 8 ; 9 Siracusa 4 ; 10 Pierce 14 Altavilla 3.

6. France: tournament in Les Herbiers
Here are the main results of the national tournament held in Les Herbiers last week-end:
Le National des Herbiers avait lieu le week-end dernier. La compétition se déroulant sur 2 jours de nombreux joueurs n'ont pas pu y participer (en particulier les clubs franciliens qui avaient pourtant prévu le déplacement ). Etaient donc représenté le club local des Herbiers, le CFT Pau et un joueur du SC Chamaret (Romain Gadais).
Open final: Benjamin Garnier - Laurent Garnier 4-3 (golden goal) Senior final: Benjamin Garnier - Romain Gadais 3-2 Veterans final: Roger Trouillard - Pierre Gurdjos 2-1
U15 final: Loïc Trouillard - Stéphane Jacquelin 1-0
U12 final: Noé Pascal - Nicolas Petiot 3-2 Ladies final: Camille Dole - Tiffenn Cagnol 2-1

7. Current list of suspended players
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following players are suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE) and Lazaros Papakonstantinou (GRE).

8. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

9. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
01/05/07 - Satellite in Stembert - Sébastien Scheen - lucalicheri@tiscali.it - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invito.pdf (Italian version) - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/giochiegiuochi/invitoeng.pdf (English version)
03-04/05/08 - IO in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - claudiomiscia@hotmail.com - www.asr08.com.ar
03-04/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Dingli (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - vbt@iafrica.com
10/05/08 - Grand Prix Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
- CANCELLED
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
27/04/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 (new) GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com VENEZUELA - Santiago Perez - sadiebobcooper@yahoo.com

Vincent Coppenolle

FISTF President
Place Abbé César Renard, 29
7730 Bailleul
Belgium
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00-32-69-66 60 67 (home)
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In this week's issue...

1. Major of London moves to Amsterdam
2. World Cup 2008 - first selection of players 3. About the World Cup 2008 4. Satellite of Stembert (by Philippe Hipfinger) 5. Satellite of Cagliari 6. Open of Traiskirchen (by Chris Bluemel) 7. Grand Prix of Argentina Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) 8. Grand Prix of Malta & Open of Hamrun 9. Grand Prix of South Africa 10. Grand Prix of Greece 11. Future of Reggio Calabria 12. Canada: Tournament report - The 2008 Globemaster Cup 13. USA: Maricopa Cup in Southern California Features Shock Defeat (by Kevin Nieman) 14. Italy: Ravanelli at ACS Perugia (by Stefano De Francesco) 15. Italy: FISCT at the Casa Azzurri (by Stefano De Francesco) 16. Current list of suspended players 17. Suppliers of material 18. FISTF calendar 19. Other tournaments 20. Contact person in your country

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1. Major of London moves to Amsterdam
Because of several reasons, FISTF has decided to award the 4th Major for the season 2008-2009 to Amsterdam instead of London. FISTF didn't get the guarantee that the tournament could take place with the very high standards a major should always have. The organizers of the Amsterdam Grand Prix accepted the challenge and promised to host a big tournament on April 4 & 5, 2009. Players interested for details can contact Robbert Thoen at http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/bfc08/bfc-08.htm
Best regards, hope to see you next year in Austria

7. Grand Prix of Argentina Rosario (by Claudio Miscia) It was the biggest tournament ever organized in South America, a great success for the Argentinian League and the guys from Rosario: the 38 participants from Argentina, Italy and England, players from Rosario, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Mar del Plata disputed the 5 trophies.
Efisio Fois was the big winner of the Grand Prix, beating Patricio Echevarrieta 1-0 in the final match of the open tournament and Benedetto Colarossi 5-1 in the final of the Veteran's Cup.
Claudia Cuello took the Ladies' Cup to Buenos Aires, winning all the games against the girls of Córdoba and Rosario, which made the second place thanks to Vanesa Heisterborg.
Rosario was superior in the young section: Fabrizio Castello won the Under
15 competition and Nino Di Giannantonio won the Under 12 one. In both competitions Marco Miscia reported the second place.
Final numbers: 120 matches played on 9 tables, 352 goals scored, 22 hours of competition, 5 cups and 15 medals. See all the data, the results and the pictures on www.asr08.com.ar

8. Grand Prix of Malta & Open of Hamrun
Massimo Cremona won both tournaments last week-end in hamrun. There were players from Malta and Italy taking part. Matthew Pace (Open) and Darren Bezzina (GP) were the U15 winners while the Veterans titles went to Emilio Richichi (Open) and Adrian Bonnici (GP). Here are the Open results:

OPEN: against Ilai Zammit Marmara 1-0 on shots after a 1-1 draw
Semi-finalists: Kenneth Attard & Derek Conti.

GRAND PRIX: against Charles Aquilina 1-0
Semi-finalists: Derek Conti & Emilio Richichi.

9. Grand Prix of South Africa
The tournament, basically scheduled on May 11, is postponed to a new date, which will be May 18 or 25.

10. Grand Prix of Greece
FISTF has finally decided to let Greece organize their Grand Prix on June 7 & 8.
For details, contact Chris Aggelinas at s.cotronei@email.it

12. Canada: Tournament report - The 2008 Globemaster Cup This was a fantastic tournament, which saw 7 players get together including the top ranked Canadian player Bruno Biasini and the 2nd seed Mark Meihuizen.  There were some hard fought games in the group stage, which carried over right to the final match.  Bruno and Mark met in the finals, where Bruno had incredible and flawless blocks, stopping Mark on every rush.  Bruno captured his 6th consecutive CSTFA title in Ontario, beating Mark 1:0 in a great match.  Special thanks goes to Steve Whitehead for organizing the event and Scott Andrew for hosting it at his house.  The atomsphere was friendly and I can honestly say this was incredibly fun.
This tournament also saw the registration of a new player, Nick January.
Thanks to all at the EOMSL for a great day, here are the results:
Final: Bruno Biasini - Mark Meihuizen 1-0
3 rd place: Steve Whitehead - Derek Arsenault 3-0

13. USA: Maricopa Cup in Southern California Features Shock Defeat (by Kevin Nieman) SCSC's Wayne Smith experienced a rare defeat at the hands of fellow SCSC member, Kevin Nieman, during Round Three of the Maricopa Cup Tournament in Southern California. Don't miss any of the in-depth interviews conducted with every SCSC player who participated by heading here :
http://socalsubbuteo0.googlepages.com/maricopacup2008r3

14. Italy: Ravanelli at ACS Perugia (by Stefano De Francesco) Fabrizio Ravanelli Silver Fox, unforgotten  player of Perugia, Juventus, Middlesbrough, Olimpique Marseille and Lazio is the special guest star of A.C.Subbuteo Perugia 1973. He was taken on pictures while playing against Andrea Manganello, last winner of U15 in Mons.

15. Italy: FISCT at the Casa Azzurri (by Stefano De Francesco) We are very proud to announce that after two years  the marvelous experience of FISCT at Casa Azzurri is taking place once again. FISCT will be close to the italian football national team during the football european championship. FISCT's presence is important for the future development of our sport. Press and television will speack about our game. New sponsor should be contacted. A big success for the italian federation and for all our movement!!

16. Current list of suspended players
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following players are suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE) and Lazaros Papakonstantinou (GRE).

17. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.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 and Mark Reid - www.subbuteo-berlin.com Boomerang - 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 Old Subbuteo - oldsubbuteo.com Pêldroed Bwrdd - www.tablesoccer.net + shop : 8, Station Road, Knighton, Powys, Wales, LD7 1DT - Tel/fax: 0044 (0) 1547 520096 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 That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

18. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: GP of Greece
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED.
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
04/05/08 - Grand Prix in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
11/05/08 - Open Individual in Belfast (NIR) - Eoin Adams - http://website.lineone.net/~ken.b/Tourn ... t%20GP.htm
17/05/08 - Satellite in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - lennyfoster@gmail.com
18/05/08 - Future in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - chragg@hol.gr - CANCELLED
18/05/08 - Satellite in Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - michael.parnaby@ntlworld.com
24-25/05/08 - GP/IO Individual in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - dressler@chello.at
31/05-01/06/08 - Major Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - chragg@hol.gr
07-08/06/08 - IO in Murcia (ESP) - Juan C. Granados - tctberting@hotmail.com & Warren Creighton  http://www.freewebs.com/vancouverio/
08/06/08 - Future of Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - heinz.eder@fistf.com
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) -
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - -ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
19-20/07/08 - IO in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - artmartinez@mixmail.com
27/07/08 - Satellite in Singapore - Christopher Soh - vbt@iafrica.com
09/08/08 - Challenger in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - j.radic@gmx.net
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
August 23 - National tournament in Blankenberge (BEL) ; CM: Alain Mengé at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@cable.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 (new) GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk GREECE - Giannis Sioutis - www.poep.gr HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it (new) 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 - ulka_tomasz@wp.pl PORTUGAL - Luis Horta - neon@comch.ru SCOTLAND - Mike Burns - erza@hotmail.com & subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com 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 & ferdy22@gmail.com 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)