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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. Grand Prix and Open of Belfast
2. Subbuteo fair in Rome (by Stefano Tagliaferri) 3. Satellite of Foz do Douro 2008 website 4. South Africa: announcement from Clifford Graaff 5. England: Mike Absolom Challenge Cup 6. USA: Maryland Open and Patapsco Challenge - May 3-4, 2008 (by Zach
Walker)
7. About the italian championship for teams (from the FISTF forum)dy tempted to join an Italian team?
8. Belgium at the WC
9. Northern Ireland at the WC
10. Current list of suspended players
11. Suppliers of material
12. FISTF calendar
13. Other tournaments
14. Contact person in your country

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1. Grand Prix and Open of Belfast
Scotland's Mike Burns beat home player, Kenny Beggs, in the Belfast GP Final at Park Avenue Hotel. It is becoming a successful venue for Burns, having also won last season's UK & Ireland Internationals there. Nicky Moore won the Veterans with a 2-1 Final victory over Richard Pepper. Andrew Morrison beat his brother, Peter, in the U19 Final and Yorkshire Phoenix won the Team Event, overcoming Irish Premier League 2-1 inthe Final. Full Results at www.nitfa.org.uk

In the International Open, Kenneth Beggs had a sensational day as the local player both the Open and the veterans categories.

2. Subbuteo fair in Rome (by Stefano Tagliaferri) Some weeks ago we partecipate in Subbuteofair, a memorabilia of subbuteo and Football in Rome on 19 and 20 of April 2008.
In this link you can see the italian television report on TG3 and TG3 regional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWUrYh9mHk8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WcxDuzqHkI
at our site you can find somo photos, SS Lazio TFC primavera team whit Antonio Buccioni the SS Lazio General president http://www.laziotfc.com/?q=node/840
in this phote you can see the SS Lazio TFC primavera Team whit Bruno Giordano, a great player of SS Lazio football, Napoli and Ascoli:
http://www.laziotfc.com/?q=node/841
and you can find some other photos on:
http://www.subbuteoitalia.com/fair2008.asp

3. Satellite of Foz do Douro 2008 website http://aps2008.no.sapo.pt/SateliteOFD2008/

4. South Africa: announcement from Clifford Graaff The South African Table Football  Association is proud to announce that Janus Gersie will be competing in our  first GP of Johannesburg next week-end (25 May  2008).
Janus will be our first  international guest to play in our local tournament. All our local players are  looking forward to competing with Janus on the playing  side.
From an  administrative and organizing level, the SATFA  officialswill be spending a lot  of quality time with Janus and feeding off his vast amount of experience and  knowledge.
Photographs and results of our GP will be posted on our  Johannesburg Table Football Club website :  www.jhbtfc.wetpaint.com

5. England: Mike Absolom Challenge Cup
Jeremy Bradley won his 4th Mike Absolom Challenge Cup on Sunday in Leicester defeating Kevin Dyson 2-1 after extra time. Allan Cook won the plate 1-0 against Malcolm Bosomworth. This was the 4th and final event of the TSPA Circuit Season, also won by Jeremy, for the 3rd time. Kevin Dyson was runner-up with Rob Paterson 3rd. John Turpin won the B Category.

The dates for next seasons circuit events are:
05/10/08 - Market Harborough Open
07/12/08 - Huntingdon Open
01/02/09 - Milton Keynes Open
19/04/09 - Mike Absolom Challenge Cup

Contact Jeremy Bradley (http://www.youtube.com/user/subbuteoman
Photos - http://picasaweb.google.com/zibi48/ASAMarylandCup2008

Maryland Open - May 3, 2008
Open Category - 25 Players
Round of 16
Zach Walker 4 Cody Cashmark 0
Andrew Mendez 3 Matt Steinmuller 0
Paul Eyes 4 Larry Fryer 0
Alex Batacchi 4 Collin Dohner 0
Patrick Sheridan 5 Nevin Varghese 2
Miguel Marques 3 Ed Morgans 0
Wayne Smith 0 Massimo Conturso 2
Daniel Cranston 5 Brendan Dames 1

Quarter Finals:
Zach 4 Andrew Mendez 0
Paul 2 Alex 1
Patrick 1 Miguel 2
Mass1 Dan 2

Semi Finals:
Zach 3 Paul 2
Miguel 1 Dan 2

Final:
Zach 2 Dan 1

Maryland Open
Veterans Category - 4 players - Finals Standings:
1. Paul Eyes
2. Alex Batacchi
3. Wayne Smith
4. Dewey LaRochelle

Patapsco Challenge - May 4, 2008

Open Category - 14 players
Quarter Finals:
Massimo Conturso 2 Daniel Cranston 1
Matt Giffen 0 Patrick Sheridan 4
Paul Eyes 3 Ed Morgans 0
Miguel Marques 0 Zach Walker 1

Semi Finals:
Paul Eyes 0 Zach Walker 1
Patrick Sheridan 2Massimo Conturso 0

Final:
Zach Walker 5 Patrick Sheridan 2

U15 Category - 13 players
Quarter-Finals:
Andrew Mendez 5 - 1 Jeremy
Matt 1 - 0 Nevin
David Marino 3 - 2 Kevin Joo
Brendan Dames 2 - 1 Collin Dohner in Golden Goal

Semi-Finals
Andrew Mendez 3 - 1 Brendan Dames
Matt Steinmuller 1 - 0 David Marino

Final
Andrew Mendez 2 - 0 Matt

7. About the italian championship for teams (from the FISTF forum) I am going to sketch a short outline of the Italian championship for teams, which closed on Sunday, April 27th, in Rome.

The championship is structured in four leagues or "series": serie A, B, C and D. The former three are organized on a national level and count 10 teams each, while serie D is organized on preliminary regional rounds, allowing the best 10 clubs to partecipate to a final round taking place with the upper leagues. In all leagues, all teams play against each other over two days. Serie A and B are played over two full, separate rounds (first round was played in Pisa this February), while serie C and D only have one round.

So in Rome we had forty teams competing for primacy, out of about fifty-five active in the country. The winner of serie A is the Italian champion; in all other cases the best club is promoted in the upper league and the worst demoted in the lower one. Teams ranked 2nd and 3rd will enter play-off and those ranked 8th and 9th enter play-out.

In serie A Black-and-Blue Pisa proved itself the wonderboy of 2007-2008 once again. After a number of modest results in previous years, when the team barely escaped demotion, this season Pisa has seen his best player (Daniele Bertelli) triumphing in the World Championship for individuals, and the club itself was able to carry the day both in the Italian Championship and the Champions League!

Unfortunately, the competition in serie A suffered some disruption due to the fact that Eagles Napoli – winner of the previous edition and widely held the best Italian team, relying on players such as Massimo Bolognino and Vasco Guimares – played the first day of the February round with three players only, since Antonio Mettivieri missed his plane and arrived from Belgium just in the evening.

Reggio Emilia conquered an excellent second place and Perugia – usually Napoli's main contestant to the title – got third. Bologna Tigers surmounted Stella Artois (Milan) by one point in the race for the fourth place and achieved partecipation to the next Champions League. Bari and Palermo were demoted in serie B.

In serie B CCT Roma effortlessy secured their return into the premier league, while the Warriors Torino – an old and renown club led by Paolo Finardi, world champion in the Italian Veteran team – were unexpectedly defeated by an upstart Ascoli in the play-off, and so missed their return in serie A for the second year in a row. In the nether regions of the competition Fiamme Azzurre (Blue Flames, Rome's third club) and Catania were demoted.

In serie C Florence – a strong and well-known team – was finally able to seize promotion together with Cosenza. Ferrara was beaten at play-off, while Bergamo, considered a likely winner, was unable to go beyond average results.

In serie D both Modena and Imperia were promoted, the latter after beating Lazio (the fourth Roman team) in the play-off. Real Maremma – a Tuscanian club with strong ties to Spain – proved the revelation team scoring just one point below.

On the whole it was a splendid weekend of fair competition and closely-fought agonism, pitting many of the world's best players against each other and offering an impressive display, which didn't go unnoticed in the Italian media. Let's hope this fact shall attract new people to the hobby and encourage the movement's further growth.

... after this, is anybody tempted to join an Italian team?

8. Belgium at the WC
The belgian team at the WC will be:

Category OPEN - Individual
1) DEJARDIN Valéry (World Rankings)
2) DELOGNE Gil (World Rankings)
3) DHEUR Christophe
4) DUPONT Nathan
5) Substitute: GOLGER Bessim

Category OPEN - Team
1) DEJARDIN Valéry
2) DELOGNE Gil
3) DHEUR Christophe
4) DUPONT Nathan
5) GOLGER Bessim

Category VETERAN - Individual
1) CEULEMANS Jos
2) VAN DE VLIET Bart
3) Substitute: JADOT Benoît

Category VETERAN - Team
1) CEULEMANS Jos
2) VAN DE VLIET Bart
3) JADOT Benoît
4) JADOT Laurent (to be confirmed)

Category JUNIOR - Individual
1) LEROY Justin (World Rankings)
2) THULIER Jonathan
3) DELOOSE Renald
4) Substitute: BERTRAND Jérôme

Category JUNIOR - Team
1) LEROY Justin
2) THULIER Jonathan
3) DELOOSE Renald
4) BERTRAND Jérôme

Category FEMININE - Individual
1) BERTHOLET Elodie (World Rankings)

Delegation (non-playing members of the belgian team): Vincent Coppenolle et Philippe Hipfinger.

9. Northern Ireland at the WC
Eoin Adams will be the only representative of Northern ireland at this year's World Cup in Vienna.

10. 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).

11. 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/

12. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: GP of Greece
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
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
25/05/08 - Grand Prix in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - 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 - 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
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More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

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In this week's issue...

1. Satellite of Foz do Douro
2. Satellite of Mattersburg
3. Future of Mattersburg
4. U12 World Cup
5. Hotel for the world cup (by Heinz Eder) 6. UK & Ireland Internationals 7. Open of Leicester 8. Open of Murcia (by Angel Valverde) 9. Massimo Cremona 10. Grand Prix of Rome (by Enrico Guidi) 11. Dutch championships 12. German Championships 13. French championship 14. Maltese championship 15. Italian championships (by Stefano De Francesco) 16. Italian championship for U15 teams (by Stefano De Francesco) 17. Western States Open (by Simon Hutchinson) 18. Current list of suspended players (updated) 19. Suppliers of material 20. FISTF calendar 21. Other tournaments 22. Contact person in your country

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PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR SOME EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES THERE WILL BE NO NEWSLETTER NEXT WEEK.

1. Satellite of Foz do Douro
Migue Faria beat João Rodrigues (2-1) int he final of the Foz do Douro Satellite last week-end. Semi-finalists were Arlindo Coutinho and Paulo Laranjeira.

2. Satellite of Mattersburg
12 competed int he Satellite of Mattersburg. Thorsten Korzil took the title after beating Günther Bamberzky 1-0 int he final. Günter Exler and Thomas Karnthaler lost in the semis.

3. Future of Mattersburg
Thomas Karnthaler beat Rene Karner 3-2 to win the 1st Future tournament ever held in Austria. Thomas Exler and Patrick Zeilinger lost in the semis.

4. U12 World Cup
As a reminder, we let everyone know that the U12 world cup is open to any player. There is no limit of players per country EXCEPTED if some countries have put some limits themselves. Italy has for instance decided to limit their squad to 8 young players. More infos about the U12 WC can be received from heinz Eder at h3720@accor.com

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EUR 119,-- per night and room
EUR 10,-- per night for a third person in the double room EUR 12,-- per person and day for breakfast

To book the room you have to contact the hotel directly
(www.accorhotels.com and the code of this hotel is 3720.

6. UK & Ireland Internationals
Dave Pawsey won the UK & Ireland Internationals last week-end in Cardiff.
The EPL player beat Steve Hawkins, also from England, 2-0 in the final. Int he team event, England won the title. Scotland is 2nd, Wales 3rd and Northern Ireland 4th.

7. Open of Leicester
There will be an International Open in Leicester, England on July 26-27.
Details are available from Jeremy Bradley at http://realmurcia-cf.blogspot.com/  and players can register theirselves sending an email to my address. For this time, we have a special motive to promote the game and attract more players to our sport because the tournament will be organized in the big and new store center Nueva Condomina, just in front of the new stadium of Real Murcia Soccer Team.
Normally several thousand of persons each weekend are visiting the store center for shopping, so the tournament will be watched by many many people during both days (major assistance of public on saturday) and it will be a special chance to put boxes-game on sale to the public. If the tournament accomplish with the aims fixed, more special events in the future could be organized there, and more chances to promote the game we would find.

9. Massimo Cremona
Massimo can now be joined at his new address: rome-gp@blackrose98roma.com The tournament website is www.romegp.blogspot.com

11. Dutch championships
Maikel de Haas won his second title in a row last week-end in Grave at the dutch championship. Here are the main results.
Open final : Maikel de Haas - Paul Brinker 9-0 semifinalists are Robbert Thoen & Marco Leeman

Veterans final : Martijn Bom - Nico Marks 4-1 semifinalists are Henk Landzaat & Luc Creemers

Under 15/19 final : Jerrel van Keimpema - Casey van Os 2-2 JvK wins shots semifinalists are Jovi Willeijns & Chesney van Keimpema

12. German Championships
The german championships took place last week-end in the Dortmund area.
Here are the main standings.
Open
1. Alexander Ruf (TSG Rain)
2. ArnoldMair (TSG Rain)
3. Rainer Vogt (BSC Schwalbach)
4. Frank Hagenkötter (TSL Dortmund)

Veterans
1. Marcus Tilgner (SpartaSpreeathen)
2. Roland Popp (TSG Rain)
3. Rainer Vogt (BSC Schwalbach)
4. Thossa Büsing (Borussia Bergkamen)

U19
1. Björn Kegenbein (SpartaSpreeathen)
2. Dominik Schulz (Borussia Bergkamen)

U15
1. Björn Kegenbein (SpartaSpreeathen)
2. Kai Hagenkötter (TSL Dortmund)

U12
1. Kai Hagenkötter (TSL Dortmund)
2. René Frey (Borussia Bergkamen)

Woman
1. VictoriaBüsing (Borussia Bergkamen)
2. Vanessa Böllert (Borussia Bergkamen)

13. French championship
The french championship took place in the Paris area last week-end.
Jean-Mary managed to win the final of the championship against his teamate Axel Donval (2-2 and 3-1 on shots). Thierry Vivron is 3rd and Joël David 4th. 16 players were taking part and were dropped in four groups of four.

14. Maltese championship
This is the final table of the Maltese championship whcih was held on sunday.
1. Mark Gauci 14 pts ; 2. Joe Borg Bonaci 12 ; 3. Hansel Mallia 12 ; 4.
Samuel Bartolo 12 ; 5. Joe Mifsud 10 ; 6. Charles Aquilina 9 ; 7. Derek Conti 7 ; 8. Adrian Bonnici 0.

15. Italian championships (by Stefano De Francesco) Last weekend the italian championship has taken place in Ferrara. These are the italian champions for each category:
- OPEN Simone BERTELLI (Pisa)
- VETERAN Emilio RICHICHI (Palermo)
- Under 19 Riccardo LA ROSA (Palermo)
- Under 15 Mattia BELLOTTI (Napoli)
- Under 12 Luca BATTISTA (Napoli)
- Ladies Valentina BARTOLINI (Perugia)
- Cadetti Fabio BELLONI (Perugia)
- Classic Cesare SANTANICCHIA (Perugia)
- Primavera ASD FIGHTERS (Napoli)

16. Italian championship for U15 teams (by Stefano De Francesco) Last weekend the italian championship Under  15  for teams has taken place in Ferrara. The winner is Fighters  Napoli that defeated A.C.S.Perugia 1973 in the final. 14 teams have been  involved in the tournament and this is an important achievement for the italian  movement.
Quarter-finals
A.C.S. Perugia-Napoli 2000 2-1
Lazio-Spezia 1-1 (10-8)
Pierce 14-Eagles Napoli 2-1
Fighters Napoli-Palermo 2-1

Semi-finals
A.C.S. Perugia-Lazio 2-1
Fighters Napoli-Pierce 14 2-1

Finals
Fighters Napoli-A.C.S. Perugia 2-1
Battista-Manganello 2-0
Feo-Nivokazi 3-1
Peluso-De Francesco 0-2

17. Western States Open (by Simon Hutchinson) The Western States Open returns to the Golden State after a four year absence.
This year's tournament will be held in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday August 23, 2008.
The Western States Open was first played as an American Subbuteo Association Major tournament in 1999 hosted by Southern California Subbuteo Club (SCSC), and was won by the SCSC's Wayne Smith. After a three year hiatus the Boise Unemployed Subbuteo League (BUSL) hosted the competition in Idaho in 2003. The following year the tournament returned to Southern California, when Wayne Smith became the first person to be a two time champion. The 2005 competition returned to Idaho, who have hosted it in
2006 and 2007.
The winner of the 2007 tournament was Lenny Foster of the BUSL.
If you would like to take part you can either email, http://socalsubbuteo0.googlepages.com/wso2008

18. Current list of suspended players (updated)
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following player is suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE);
* the following player is suspended till 1st of June: Lazaros Papakonstantinou (GRE).

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 - 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/

20. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
24/05/08 - Challenger of the North East TFA (ENG) - Mike Parnaby - Kari.Hakkarainen@tietoenator.com
25/05/08 - Grand Prix in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - 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 - 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
26-27/07/08 - IO in Leicester (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.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

21. Other tournaments
August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com

22. 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 - Fred Vulpes - 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)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
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Players and fans are welcome to send their news to be posted in this newsletter. Former editions of this newsletter (1-206) are available by e-mail.
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In this week's issue...

1. Open and Grand Prix of Finland in Helsinki 2. International friendly 3. Challenger of Teesside in Darlington 4. Grand Prix of South Africa in Johannesburg (by Clifford Graaff) 5. Major of Bologna 6. Satellite of Dolo 7. Satellites in Cyprus 8. Open of Murcia 9. Colombia 10. French championships 11. French championships for teams 12. Dutch team for the world cup 13. WC Entry list 14. News from Yorkshire Phoenix (England) 15. Finland: Helsinki league (from the FISTF forum) 16. USA: Southern California Subbuteo Club (by Simon Hutchinson) 17. Belgium: new club 18. Current list of suspended players (updated) 19. Suppliers of material 20. FISTF calendar 21. Other tournaments 22. Contact person in your country

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

1. Open and Grand Prix of Finland in Helsinki With 24 and 21 players taking part and the presence of six foreign players, the two finnish tournaments were successful this season. The finalists were the same on both day. Jon Henning Bergane defeated Philippe Hipfinger in the Open final while the Blegian beat the Norwegian in the GP final.

2. International friendly
During the finnish tournaments, an international friendly was played between Norway and Finland. Norway won the game 3-1.

3. Challenger of Teesside in Darlington
Only 10 players took part in this tournament but all of them had at least 5 games.W ell done to Mike Parnaby for hosting such a great event. Andrew Hillerby Defeated Jim Law 4-3 in the final while Brian Clark and Terry Brown lost in the semis.

4. Grand Prix of South Africa in Johannesburg (by Clifford Graaff) The first GP of Johannesburg to be hosted by SATFA proved to be a huge success. We had a record field of entrants including Janus Gersie from Germany. The final was contested between Janus and local player Clifford Graaff with Janus winning by 5 goals to nil. The sheer class and experience of Janus proved crucial and he deservedly captured the first GP of Johannesburg title in style. Thesemi finals saw Janus beating Sean Morgan
4–2 and Clifford beating Harold Silber 3–0. The losing quarter-finalists were Jason Kennedy, Reza Bodiat, Richard Graaff and Michael Fouche.
Taariq Bodiat won the Juniors Competition (Under 15) by defeating Michael Fouche 1–0 in a tense final.
A special word of thanks must go to Janus on his participation in our GP.
He has proved to be great ambassadorfor the German Table Football Association and FISTF.

5. Major of Bologna
Joseph Borg Bonaci (Malta) beat Massimo Bolognino (Italy) in the final of the Open category. Joseph Mifsud and Nikos Beis reached the semis. Other finals were as follows:
U12: Emanuele Lo Cascio - Luca Battista 2-1
Veterans: Paolo Finardi - Severino Gara 1-0
U15: Diego Tagliaferri - Andrea Manganello 5-2
Teams: Falcons Athens - Stella Artois Milano 2-0 Hopefully we will be able to give more details soon.

Pictures can be seen at:
http://www.calciotavoloimperia.it/?Torn ... _-_Bologna
http://scbiella91.blogspot.com/
http://www.laziotfc.com/?q=image/tid/73

6. Satellite of Dolo
The invitation file is available from David Lazzari at arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk

8. Open of Murcia
The Open of Murcia will take place this week-end. Great news are coming up from Spain as the presence of 6 players from Gibraltar has been confirmed for the event!

9. Colombia
Andrea Lampis's e-mail address is now changed to www.yorkshiresubbuteo.com Further Important Phoenix updates on the site will be made in next couple of days, so keep checking for all the latest news!

15. Finland: Helsinki league (from the FISTF forum) Our 3rd season of Helsinki FISTF -league has ended and we got a new champion again.
Jani Mustonen____24 21 3 0 73-06 66
Teemu Sihvola___24 21 2 1 82-07 65
Timo Ekholm_____24 15 2 7 41-18 47
Vesa Kouvonkorpi_24 13 3 8 48-23 42
Wille Hölttä_______24 11 8 5 31-15 41
Kari Hakkarainen__24 11 5 8 35-17 38
Jussi Syrjänen____24 11 3 10 42-37 36
Kai Grönfors______24 11 2 11 30-27 35
Juho Sihvola______24 9 4 11 22-25 31
Petri Kokkonen____24 6 7 13 20-45 23
Saku Halmetoja___24 4 2 18 16-56 14
Jarkko Hantunen__24 1 3 20 06-50 6
Matias Fredrikson__24 0 2 22 01-121 2
In winter 2009 there is going to be a big game-event in Finland where different tablegames arrange their championship-tournaments in the same time, in the same place. Tablefootball has been asked to be one of them.
The biggest game in the event is going to be table-icehockey, no doubt about that. Every male in Finland knows the game and almost every male in Finland has tried it in some point of his life. It is a game that is played in many clubs and workplaces. I'm sure that table-icehockey tournament will attract a lot of people who are interested in tablegames in general. If we decide to take part in this event, we could reach exactly the right people, who might would be interested in tablefootball too.
Here is one link so that you can see what is table icehockey:
http://www.ithf.info/stiga/ithf/index.aspx
Besides table icehochey (and probably table football) there is going to be present for instance table curling.

16. USA: Southern California Subbuteo Club (by Simon Hutchinson) The Southern California Subbuteo Club has moved their web site to a new web hosting service and it can be reached with a new URL, http://socalsubbuteo.com.

All of the news stories, results, reports, photographs, and videos have been moved from the old to the new site.  Feel free to visit it and catch up with the flicking in So Cal.

17. Belgium: new club
Rudi De Smet will launch a new club next season in Aalst. Any peron interested by details can join him at 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/

20. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
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 - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) - www.romegp.blogspot.com
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - lazzari.david@gmail.com
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk
13/07/08 - Satellites in Cyprus (CYP) - CM Paul Andreas - 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 - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
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@telmex.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]

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 (1-207) 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. Bologna: the final results
2. Grand Prix of Greece (report by Chris Aggelinas) 3. Open of Murcia 4. Future of Reggio Calabria 5. Open of Vancouver 6. Welsh Championships 7. Predictions for the world cup 8. USA: Maricopa Cup round 4 (by Simon Hutchinson) 9. The funny link of the week (by John Lauder) 10. Current list of suspended players (updated) 11. Suppliers of material 12. FISTF calendar 13. Other tournaments 14. Contact person in your country

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

1. Bologna: the final results
208 players and 41 teams were present in Bologna. We already mentionned that Joseph Borg Bonaci (Malta) defeated Massimo Bolognino thanks to a goal in the sudden death (3-2) in the open final but here are some other results. Juan Noguera (Spain) won the U19 tournament while U12 player Diego Tagliaferri won the U15 section after a 5-2 victory over Andrea Manganello.
Paolo Finardi won the veterans and Valentina Bartolini won the ladies section. Emanuele Lo Cascio from Sicily won the U12 tournament. Finally, TSC Falcons Athens became the first greek team to win a Major for teams.

2. Grand Prix of Greece (report by Chris Aggelinas) Weekend 7-8 of June we had our annual grand prix. It was the first international event in Greece since the Europa cup (due to the well known punishment). It was the quietest tournament in Greecefor many years, played in a really nice and sportsmanship atmosphere. We used the very same place and tables as the Europa cup. Unfortunately we had just one foreign player Jaime Silva from Portugal, (the other one Foti Labi is considered half Greek), but we had very good numbers of players in all the categories.

In Under 15 (it could be easily an under 12 category) 17 players took part.
We choose the format of groups of 4 (as we did in all the categories, in order to give as many games as we could). Giannis Vlassopoulos (9 years
old) from Highlanders won the tournament beating in the final his club mate Dimitris Koulosousas.

In the veterans we also had 17 participations. The world champion Aggelos Tsakiris was once again the winner. The Athens Kickers player won in the final (3-1) Giorgos Zavos from Pireas Lions.

In the open 64 players competed for the trophy. The Greek star Nicos Beis
(Roligans) smashed everyone in his way to the final. Then he won the Falcon Dionisis Koutis with a score 1-0. These two players were in the same group in the beginning of the tournament (and the score was exactly the same 1-0) Dimos Tsombanidis (Roligans) and Jaime Silva (Athens Kickers) reached the semis.

In the teams 12 teams (included a "Profis" non competitive team) took part.
The two grat favourites Falcons and Roligans reached the final. Roligans (as last year) won again this time with a clear victory 3-1.

3. Open of Murcia
Carlos Flores (Bologna Tigers) won the Open of Murcia for the 4th time in his career after he defeated Emilio Richichi (Italy) 2-1 in the Open final.
The tournament was very interesting with a good turnout (24 players in Open
category) and the presence of six players from Gibraltar. The event was played in a shopping mall and it was therefore very interesting to see many spectators showing interest for the game. Other winners were Juan Noguera (U19), Juan Carlos Granados (Veterans), Carmen Valverde (Ladies) and the Real Murcia (teams).

4. Future of Reggio Calabria
For its first edition, the Future of Reggio Calabria (Italy) attracted 27 players from six clubs. Salvatore Randielle, 792th in the world rankings, defeated Alfredo Soria, 516th, in a close final (3-2). Ernesto Gentile won the U15 and U12 section while Bruno Bagnato managed to win the veterans category when scoring a golden goal in the final against Leonardo Colella.

5. Open of Vancouver
The 2nd Open of Vancouver in Canada had a poor turnout of 8 players but many interesting games took place. Mark Meihuizen finally won the Open final after defeating host player Warren Creighton on shots.

6. Welsh Championships
Results of the Welsh Championships held on 8th June 2008.
Open category (all 12 games) played: 1 PHIL DACEY 36 ; 2 COLIN LEWIS 20 ; 3 DAVID LAUDER 17 ; 4 MARTIN EVANS 15 ; 5 WILLIAM HOLLIDAY 12 ; 6 CARL THORNE
11 ; 7 MATHEW ROWLEY 8.

Veterans category (all 10 games) played: 1 TOM TAYLOR 23 ; 2 JOHN LAUDER 19 ; 3 GARETH THOMAS 17 ; 4 RICHARD KING 14 ; 5 DAVID SAMUEL 11 ; 6 SAM WHITING 0.

7. Predictions for the world cup
Predictions are now open at
http://www.phpbber.com/phpbb/viewtopic. ... fistf#1884
Visit the FISTF forum and let us know your own predictions.

8. USA: Maricopa Cup round 4 (by Simon Hutchinson) Saturday June 7's Maricopa Cup fourth round was the best attended in this competition's three year history.  We had nine players present and four pitches giving us the opportunity to play 29 games in our allotted time.

Wayne Smith finished top of the table with six wins, Steve Tucker claimed the runners up spot with five wins and one draw, and Simon Hutchinson finished in third with five wins.

An honorable mention must go to Munir Merchant who only lost one game, losing to Dominic Hutchinson.  He drew with Wayne Smith, Kevin Nieman and Steve Tucker, who are all players ranked higher than him.

Edgar Flores, Ian Sayer and Jason Mitchell made their debuts in this competition.  Jason won his first game since he started playing Subbuteo again after a "20-odd year" hiatus.

A full match report can be found ->
http://socalsubbuteo.com/competitions/m ... round4.php

9. The funny link of the week (by John Lauder) Dave Pawsey unveils new EPL kit for next season:
http://uk.msnusers.com/tablesoccer/shoe ... &PhotoID=2

10. Current list of suspended players (updated)
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following player is suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE).

11. 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/

12. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
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 - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) - www.romegp.blogspot.com
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - lazzari.david@gmail.com
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk
13/07/08 - Satellites in Cyprus (CYP) - CM Paul Andreas - 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 - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
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@telmex.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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[Hönkki]

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In this week's issue...

1. FISTF World Cup in Vienna
2. More about the World Cup
3. World Cup 2009
4. European Cup for clubs 2009
5. World Cup 2010
6. European Cup for clubs 2010
7. Current list of suspended players (updated) 8. Suppliers of material 9. FISTF calendar 10. Other tournaments 11. Contact person in your country

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the FISTF forum: www.fistf.com/forum
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1. FISTF World Cup in Vienna
The World Cup took place last week-end in Vienna, Austria. Competitors from
18 countries were present and players competed in six categories on both days. As every year, the level of the competition was very high in the open category even if some of the "big names" of the circuit (Bennett, Targui, Nastasi, Bonaci, Koutis, Beis, Guimaraes, Mifsud,...) were not present this time. The tournament itself was full of surprises and as always, details made de difference in many games. In the samei-finals, Eric Verhagen defeated Wolfgang Leitner 2-1 while Saverio Bari defeated Valéry Dejardin on shots. In the final, the "golden goal" was scored after a few minutes in the sudden death and Eric Verhagen won the world title for the very first time in his career.

In almost all categories, the number 1 players of the world rankings proved their skill. Not only Verhagen but also Juan Manuel Noguera (U19) and Bjorn Kegenbein (U15) dominated their categories. in the veterans, Martijn Bom managed to win his second title ever after beating Stefano De Francesco in the final. Finally, the biggest surprise of the week-end came from the ladies section when Michaela Scherbaum won the final on shots against current champion Françoise Guyot.

In a the promotional U12 world cup, Diego Tagliaferri proved he was the favorite as he won the tournament without any possible contestation. Diego and the Italian team also won the team tournament on sunday.

In the other team categories, Italy was supposed to be the top favorite after their poor number of titles on saturday. The "Squadra Azzurra" proved to be the best nation in the world of table football by winning the Open (against a performing team of Belgium), the Veterans (in a close final vs
Spain) and the U15 section (on goal-average vs the Netherlands). The spanish U19 side dominated their final vs Austria while France took the honors in the ladies section.

-> Individual results are available from www.tablesoccerworldcup.com
-> Pictures of the tournament are available at
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=WKD6JFP8 & http://subbutempleuve.skyrock.com

2. More about the World Cup
* Germany (Kegenbein) and England (Verhagen) had never won any FISTF title before this week-end
* Portuguese players Sergio Ramos & Jorge Silva are likely to join italian side of Lazio Roma
* Nuno Noronha might joint FTC Issy-les-Moulineaux this summer as well
* Several TV crews were present at the world cup including a crew from a Qatar TV station
* The USA were present for the first time in the U19 team category. 3 of their 4 players passed the first round in the U15 and U19 individual sections
* Giorgos Dimakeas managed to join Salzburg right after he was out of the veterans tournament to support his national football team in their game vs Russia.
* The Netherlands are going to build 40 brand new tables for their Major in Amsterdam (which will now be played in the center of the city) and for the World Cup 2009.

3. World Cup 2009
The World Cup 2009 will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from September 4 to 6. The tournament website is already up and running at http://www.worldcup2009.eu/ Details can be asked at heinz.eder@fistf.com) before August 31, 2008. A decision about the host city should be taken in September 2009.

5. World Cup 2010
Candidature files should be sent to Heinz Eder (heinz.eder@fistf.com) before December 31, 2008. A decision about the host city should be taken in January 2009.

7. Current list of suspended players (updated)
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following player is suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (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: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
21-22/06/08 - Satellite in Yorkshire (ENG) - Paul Lawrenson - guenter.exler@gmx.at
28-29/06/08 - Grand Prix in Rome (ITA) - www.romegp.blogspot.com
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - lazzari.david@gmail.com
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk
13/07/08 - Satellites in Cyprus (CYP) - CM Paul Andreas - 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 - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
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@telmex.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 & Keith Sheriff - 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)
vincent.cop@rsca.com (home)
118841515 (ICQ)
belsubbuteo@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) subbutempleuve.skyblog.com (blog) vincentcop.skyblog.com (blog)

[Hönkki]

[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 (1-210) 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. New General Secretary
2. Open of Mattersburg
3. Grand Prix of Italy in Rome
4. FISTF Masters
5. Eric verhagen's interview
6. Demo in Washington, DC
7. Current list of suspended players (updated) 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. New General Secretary
The FISTF Board is more than happy to wish a warm welcome to Zach Walker.
Zach has accepted to become the new FISTF Genreal Secretary. For any information, feel free to contact him at p.capponi@hotmail.es .
More details should be available soon.

5. Eric verhagen's interview
Eric Verhagen has been interviewed by our colleagues from www.subbuteonews.com Don't miss it!

6. Demo in Washington, DC
D.C. United (www.dcunited.com) played the LA Galaxy (aka, WHOOPED the LA Galaxy and David Beckham) yesterday in front of a crowd of 35,000 here at RFK Stadium. Was a great game/day of soccer between that and the Euro Final. We also managed to get a little table soccer demonstration in and many thanks to the Cranston trio and Paul Eyes for not only coming to the game but also being able to help demo the game to hundreds of people passing by.

Perhaps Daniel and Paul can comment more on how it went but from what I heard there were tons of kids stopping by to watch them flick and even trying their hand at it. Lots of flyers handed out and even some people who used to play and didn't know that the game was still played. Hopefully we'll get some new players out of it.

The demo was set up right next to the D.C. United team store where SuperFooty sets are available for purchase and about 10 of them have been sold through the store since April which is great and hopefully more people will pick up the game either at the store of through TablesoccerUSA or WorldTableSoccer as advertised on the flyers.

Some pics of the demo can be seen here:
http://www.freewebs.com/ferdy22/apps/photos/

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

8. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

9. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
05-06/07/08 - GP/IO Individual in Skien (NOR) - lazzari.david@gmail.com
05-06/07/08 - GP Portugal - Foz do Douro (POR) - Norberto Miguel - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk
13/07/08 - Satellites in Cyprus (CYP) - CM Paul Andreas - 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 - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
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 - http://www.busl95.com/boise2008.html
August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 & Keith Sheriff - james.atkins@vertisfinance.com INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il (new) ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - 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]

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

Jostain syystä olin saanut postitse vuonna 1995 FISTF:n uutislehdykän, joka tuli nyt sitten mökillä viimein ekaa kertaa luettua. Lehdestä löytyi kohta "Pelikiellossa olevat pelaajat". Listalla oli vain yksi nimi: Kostas Kechris (GRE), 1 vuosi pelikieltoa epäurheilijamaisesta käytöksestä vastustajia ja tuomareita kohtaan.

Aika vakuuttava kaveri.  :?

[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 (1-211) 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. Grand Prix of Portugal
2. Satellite of Dolo
3. Grand Prix and Open of Skien (Norway) 4. England: Alan Cook takes the championship title at the Worcester River Plate Severn Club in the UK (by Tim Lovell) 5. SUBBUTEOscars 6. FISTF calendar for the season 2008-09 7. Changes in the sports department 8. FISTF Masters in Madrid 9. Sanctions from the sports department 10. Current list of suspended players (updated) 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. Grand Prix of Portugal
38 players and 6 teams took part in this tournament held in Foz do Douro last week-end. Carlos Flores (Spain/Bologna Tigers) won the individual title after a close final against Tiago Sousa (2-1 in sudden death). In the
U19 category, world champion Juan Noguera was defeated by the young Ruben Português while Nuno Noronha won the veterans tournament and Vânia Conceição took the honors in the ladies section. In the team event, Orfeão da Foz do Douro A won the final after a close game against Bologna Tigers (2-1).

2. Satellite of Dolo
34 italian players took part in the Satellite of Dolo. Alessandro Mastropasqua defeated Augusto Vagnoni (2-1) in the final to win his first title in a FISTF tournament. Mattia Santini (U15), Vittorio Nicchi (veterans), Alberto Zanini (U12) and the team of SC Subbito Gol Ferrara were the other winners of the week-end.

3. Grand Prix and Open of Skien (Norway)
2 nice individual tournaments took place last week-end in Skien. On saturday, Jon Henning Bergane won the Grand Prix final after a close game against Anders Grorud (2-0). On Sunday, Lars Tore Myge won his first FISTF title ever after beating Anders Buhl Hansen (Denmark) on shots (1-1). In the U19 category, Christian Emil Christiansen (saturday) and Lukas Enevoldsen (sunday) shared the trophies after meeting twice in the finals.

4. England: Alan Cook takes the championship title at the Worcester River Plate Severn Club in the UK (by Tim Lovell) A twenty league fixtures season comes to a dramatic finale as club newcomer and England legend Alan Cook takes the championship trophy... but former holder Paul Shearman takes the honours in the Worcester club's cup competition, narrowly beating Alan in a nail biting final.
Club chairman Tim Lovell had this to say. "It's been an honour to have Alan join our club, his experience and skill has had a massive impact on us all... we have all played a better game and gained a real grasp of the FISTF rules under his stewardship this season. With players like Paul Shearman and Alan Cook in the club it is no surprise we are attracting other players from the Midlands for next season"
And two new players are now poised to join the club in September as Worcester River Plate Severn TFC continue to build their reputation as a dynamic and exciting force of table football in the UK.

5. SUBBUTEOscars
Votes for the 2nd trimester (april-may-june) can still be sent till July, 14th to Thorsten Büsing at www.fistf.com). The forms have to be sent to Heinz Eder at scheen.s@skynet.be
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - vbt@iafrica.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - (2) -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Beit Jadot - soxychallenger23@gmail.com
01-02/02/2009 - Open in Issy les Moulineaux - Thomas Ponté - henklandzaat@hotmail.com
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - (1) -
07-08/03/2009 - Major of Mons (BEL) - Olivier Père - romithoen@casema.nl
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) -
08-09/05/2009 - Grand Prix of Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - botigers@infinito.it
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - (1) -
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumici (ITA) - (1) -
18-19/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Porto (POR) - rberto Miguel - guenter.exler@gmx.at
(1): the italian association still has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(2): the US association still has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)

7. Changes in the sports department
Heinz Eder has announced that from next season, tournament reports should be sent in the next 3 days after the tournament. According to the importance of the tournaments, Head referees should always be appointed as
follows:
- Major, Europa Cup, World Cup:
Head Referee has to be appointed by the FISTF sports department latest one week before the tournament.
- Grand Prix:
Head Referee has to be appointed by the FISTF sports department latest 3 days before the tournament.
- International Open, Satellite, Future, Challenger:
The competition manager is the head referee of the tournament.

8. FISTF Masters in Madrid
Here is the list of qualified players for the FISTF World Masters in Madrid, Spain (as according to the world rankings of april 2008):

Eric VERHAGEN (ENG)
Daniele BERTELLI (ITA)
Carlos FLORES (ESP)
Wolfgang LEITNER (AUT)
Massimo CREMONA (MLT)
Kasper BENNETT (ENG)
Saverio BARI (ITA)
Vasco GUIMARAES (POR)
Simone BERTELLI (ITA)
Sergio LOUREIRO (POR)
Massimiliano NASTASI (ITA)
Chris THOMAS (ENG)

The list of substitutes is as follows:
Valéry Dejardin (BEL)
Massimo Bolognino (ITA)
Robert Lenz (AUT)
Zach Walker (USA)
Efrem Intra (ITA)
Gil Delogne (BEL)
Vincenc Prats Salat (ESP)
Giorgos Koutis (GRE)
Sami Targui (BEL)
Tiago Sousa (ITA)

Players should confirm to Heinz Eder (p.capponi@hotmail.es

9. Sanctions from the sports department
Following the reports of the head referees and competitions manager, the following sanctions have been taken by the sports department.

- For the Grand Prix of Rome
50 points in the Open World rankings and a fine of 5 Euros for the following players:
a) Simone Bertelli (ITA), Luigi Pochesci (ITA)

- For the Grand Prix of Foz do Douro
a) 50 points in the Open World rankings and a fine of 5 Euros for the following players:
Vasco Guimaraes (POR), Antonio Tavares (POR), Vitor Lopes (POR)
b) 50 points in the Veterans World rankings and a fine of 5 Euros for the following player:
Luis Machado (POR)

10. Current list of suspended players (updated)
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following player is suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE).

11. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

12. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
13/07/08 - Satellites in Cyprus (CYP) - CM Paul Andreas - 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 - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
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 - http://www.busl95.com/boise2008.html
August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - 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 & Keith Sheriff - james.atkins@vertisfinance.com INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il (new) ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - 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. Limassol Satellites
2. Stembert Open
3. New website for the TSPA
4. USA: Maricoba Cup round 5 (by Simon Hutchinson) 5. FISTF calendar 2008-2009 6. Current list of suspended players (updated) 7. Suppliers of material 8. FISTF calendar 9. Other tournaments 10. Contact person in your country

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1. Limassol Satellites
The first two FISTF tournaments in Cyprus took place on July 6 & 13. 8 players were taking part but many more showed interest for the game as many Cyrpriots are still playing with the old rules and didn't feel ready yet to compete with FISTF rules. Paul Andreas (Cardiff TFC) won both Satellites and become the first Cypriot to win FISTF tournaments. Thanks to these tournaments, local clubs are being developped in Famagusta and Nicosia and hopefully many more tournaments will be organized in the future. FISTF is very happy with the recent developments on the island and we hope that Cyprus will become a strong table football nations in the next few years.

2. Stembert Open
The tournament website is http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php

3. New website for the TSPA
The new website address for the TSPA including the White Star team is www.freewebs.com/tablesoccerplayersassociation

4. USA: Maricoba Cup round 5 (by Simon Hutchinson) The fifth round of this year's Maricopa Cup was played in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday 12 July.
Despite saying that luck was not with him Wayne Smith finished top of the table with four wins and one draw.  Second place Steve Tucker was the player who had held Smith to a goalless tie.  Simon Hutchinson finished in third place with three wins, beating the players who finished below him, and two defeats, losing to Tucker and Smith.  Kevin Nieman's victory in the last game of the day ensure that he would finish in fourth place and Munir Merchant finish in sixth.  Under 15 player Dominic Hutchinson finished in fifth place.
A full report, scores and the final table can be found on the Southern California Subbuteo Club's web site at http://socalsubbuteo.com

5. FISTF calendar 2008-2009
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - (1) - (details coming soon)
11-12/10/2008 - Open in Stembert (BEL) - Sébastien Scheen - alan.collins@fistf.com
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - p.capponi@hotmail.es
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - ftcissy@yahoo.fr
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - jadot_benoit@yahoo.fr
10-11/01/2009 - Satellite in Ciampino (Roma) (ITA) - (1) - Antonello Rodriquez - soxychallenger23@gmail.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open in Issy les Moulineaux (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - henklandzaat@hotmail.com
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - (1) - Marco Pinausi - olivier.pere@skynet.be
04-05/04/2009 - Major in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr
25-26/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

8. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: IO of Leicester
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
19-20/07/08 - Satellites in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - hans.ruf@dstfb.de
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
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 - http://www.busl95.com/boise2008.html
August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk (updated) FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - joebonfi@gibtelecom.net & sheriff@gibtelecom.net (new) GREECE - new contact person to be appointed soon (updated) 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 - 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)
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In this week's issue...

1. Message to the national associations (by Thorsten Büsing) 2. Open of Rain 3. Satellites of Templeuve 4. Cardiff TFC announcement 5. US championships 6. Tournament in Gibraltar (by Keith Sheriff) 7. Calendar 2008-2009 8. Current list of suspended players (updated) 9. Suppliers of material 10. FISTF calendar 11. Other tournaments 12. Contact person in your country

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1. Message to the national associations (by Thorsten Büsing) As reminder, it´s only one week time until the deadline (July, 31st) to send in the replies of the questionary. Only the responsibles of Switzerland, Finland, Canada, Netherlands and Germany answered so far.
Replies must be sent to massimobolognino@virgilio.it -
27/09/2008 - Future in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
11-12/10/2008 - Open in Stembert (BEL) - Sébastien Scheen - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com -
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29/11/2008 - Open in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - mtilgner@arcor.de - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - (2) -
6/12/2008 - Satellite in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open in Issy les Moulineaux (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - henklandzaat@hotmail.com -
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - (1) - Marco Pinausi - marco.pinausi@tin.it - dlfcalciotavolo.altervista.org
07-08/03/2009 - Major in Mons (BEL) - Olivier Père - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) -
09-10/05/2009 - Grand Prix in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - botigers@infinito.it -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - (1) - Salvatore Cotronei - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - guenter.exler@gmx.at -
Notes:
(1): the italian association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(2): the US association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(3): the french association has to confirm the tournament
(4): the scottish association has to confirm the date

8. Current list of suspended players (updated)
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following player is suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE).

9. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

10. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: Challenger in Limassol (CYP) PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
26-27/07/08 - Grand Prix in Barcelona (ESP) - Arturo Martinez - jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk
27/07/08 - Challenger in Limassol (CYP) - CM Paul Andreas - subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.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

11. Other tournaments
August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk (updated) FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - joebonfi@gibtelecom.net & sheriff@gibtelecom.net (new) GREECE - new contact person to be appointed soon (updated) 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 - 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) WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

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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. Grand Prix of Spain
2. Open of Leicester (England)
3. Challenger of Limassol (Cyprus)
4. Satellite of Singapore
5. Calendar 2008-2009
6. Current list of suspended players (updated) 7. Suppliers of material 8. FISTF calendar 9. Other tournaments 10. Contact person in your country

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1. Grand Prix of Spain
More than 80 players and 15 teams were present in Corbera de Llobregat
(Barcelona) last week-end. Carlos Flores won the final again like last year. This time he beat Alberto Mateos (3-1). Erich Hinkelmann and Sérgio Loureiro reached the semis. Juan Manuel Noguera (U19), Emanuele Lo Cascio (U15), Stefano De Francesco (Veterans) and Giuditta Lo Cascio (Ladies) were the other individual winners. In the team event, TFC Mattersburg defeated Real Murcia CF 2-1 in the final.

2. Open of Leicester (England)
26 players took part int he last english tournament of the season. Kaspar Bennett defeated Dave Pawsey in the final on shots after a 1-1 draw. Steve Hawkins took the veterans title after beating Kevin Dyson (3-1). The team tournament consisted of 4 teams and the tournament was decided on a group stage. After many close games, TSPA White Star won the tournament, Cardiff Bluebirds finishing 2nd.

3. Challenger of Limassol (Cyprus)
8 players were present for the 3rd tournament of the summer in Cyprus. Paul Andreas won his third final of the month after beating George Zangylos (2-1).

4. Satellite of Singapore
Only 6 players showed up at the Singapore Satellite. A lot of games were played by each player but no world ranking points could be awarded for the tournament.

5. Calendar 2008-2009
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - (1) - Massimo Bolognino - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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4-5/10/2008 - Open in Bergkamen (GER) - Thorsten Büsing - scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com -
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
22/11/2008 - Challenger in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - vbt@iafrica.com
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29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - (2) -  -
6/12/2008 - Satellite in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open in Issy les Moulineaux (FRA) - Thomas Ponté - henklandzaat@hotmail.com -
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - (1) - Marco Pinausi - marco.pinausi@tin.it - dlfcalciotavolo.altervista.org
07-08/03/2009 - Major in Mons (BEL) - Olivier Père - Jeremybradley49@yahoo.co.uk -
04-05/04/2009 - Major in Amsterdam (NED) - Robbert Thoen - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr  -
25-26/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - (1) - Salvatore Cotronei - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - guenter.exler@gmx.at -
Notes:
(1): the italian association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(2): the US association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(3): the french association has to confirm the tournament

6. Current list of suspended players (updated)
* From a decision of the FISTF Board of December 1, 2007, the following player is suspended for 1 year (till December 1, 2008) of all FISTF
competitions: Kostas Kechris (GRE).

7. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

8. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
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
August 16/17 - Canadian National Championship; CM: Mark Meihuizen at alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk (updated) FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - joebonfi@gibtelecom.net & sheriff@gibtelecom.net (new) GREECE - new contact person to be appointed soon (updated) 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 - 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) WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

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In this week's issue...

1. FISTF letter to the associations
2. FISTF Handbook
3. Stembert Open
4. Belfast Barbarians Subbuteo Club (by Kenneth Beggs) 5. Calendar 2008-2009 6. Current list of suspended players (updated) 7. Suppliers of material 8. FISTF calendar 9. Other tournaments 10. Contact person in your country

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1. FISTF letter to the associations
A few weeks ago FISTF sent a questionary to all associations to ask a few questions about the need to organize a big meeting between the officials of the different national associations and the points to improve int he organisation of FISTF. Thossa Büsing (vice-president of FISTF) was in charge of collecting the answers. He sent us a report, which is as follows.

a) REPORT

Five out of 17 member nations and two out of eleven partner nations answered to the questionary. All in all only seven out of 28 questionaries were answered by the responsables of the FISTF member and partner nations.
Just a quarter.

It looks like FRANCE denied to answer it. On 4th of July FFFT-President LAURENT GARNIER asked FISTF Vice-President BÜSING surprising: "Why the board refuse to discuss around table with the nations?" He added some comments not to explain in more details and remarks his interest of the institution "he have create", to work in a democratic way and proposed a "big program" for a seminary.

A couple of days later a letter from ITALY written by FISCT President ENRICO CORSO reached the FISTF President COPPENOLLE. It contains only the request for a weekend meeting like in the questionary under point 1) is asked for. FISTF President COPPENOLLE asked for a list of points to discuss. No reply on this. Unfortunely ITALY missed to send answers to the questionary, too.

Answers by AUSTRIA and MONACO were advised, but they didn´t reach FISTF-Vice-President BÜSING.

Only five out of 28 nations adress the meeting in Brussels. The rest missed the chance to confirm the need of such a meeting.

Seven out of 28 nations agrees with the work of the current BoD. The rest missed the chance to comment displeasure.

Every contacted nation, the responsible persons had the chance to send in the answers right in time. They got a reminder as well. Probably the missing answers are caused of a low interest on international level or due to internal problems inside of the associations or the desinterest of their responsables. Perhaps not every responable takes the questionary as serious as it has to be. It is quite possible this is resulting out of the continously missing work of all FISTF General Secretaries over more than six years.

b) Recommendation

An urgent need for a special meeting in Brussels, asked in question 1, is indistinguishable. Nevertheless, in general such a meeting makes sense, due to the ideas collected under point 2. The light version of a special meeting in Brussels can be a change of views on a Friday Night at a Major Tournament in Mons or Amsterdam. It is desirable to place such a small meeting in 2009, latest in 2010.

The need of cooperation with FISTF BoD must be better transported to all responsables in FISTF Member- and Partner Nations.

The collected opinions under the points 2, 4 and 5 can be really helpful for the further work of the current FISTF BoD until 2010. It´s up to everyone in the Board to use it: the Communication Department, the Financal Department, the Marketing Department and the Sports Department. In any case the FISTF BoD is able to prepare an agenda for a however named meeting.

Finally, everyone who voted for a special meeting in Brussels (without a tournament on that weekend), shall still be motivated to bring in their talents and ideas to support the FISTF BoD and at least the whole community of Subbuteo Table Football Players.

c) The representatives of the member & partner nations received the full length version of the report.

2. FISTF Handbook
The FISTF Board is working on the last details for the new handbook. The file should be available for August 20 at the latest.

3. Stembert Open
The tournament website is now open at http://opendestembert.wifeo.com

4. Belfast Barbarians Subbuteo Club (by Kenneth Beggs) A successful season was completed with 13 players taking part in the 10th Ladder. Alistair Morrison topped the Swiss Ladder on goal difference, thanks to a last second goal by Stephen Rodgers against Kenny Beggs. Report & photos on http://www.nitfa.org.uk.
The club was pleased to welcome father & son, Nick & Kealan Pearson, who travelled all the way from Donegal, making a total of 27 players, ranging from Junior to Veteran agegroups, who have participated in the club during the course of the season. A tribute to the continual hard work by the organisers to develop the sport in Northern Ireland.
Robbie McMinn was also in attendance, displaying his range of teams and equipment for sale. See advertisement, also on http://www.nitfa.org.uk

5. Calendar 2008-2009
The calendar has been updated with tournaments being added in Gibraltar, Argentina and Spain.
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - (1) - Massimo Bolognino - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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4-5/10/2008 - Open in Bergkamen (GER) - Thorsten Büsing - vicent.marti@telefonica.net -
11-12/10/2008 - Open in Stembert (BEL) - Sébastien Scheen - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com -
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
22/11/2008 - Challenger in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - vbt@iafrica.com
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29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - (1) - Gregorio Caro Solis - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it - mike@worldtablesoccer.com -
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open (Ind.) in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - dlfcalciotavolo@altervista.org - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - (1) - Salvatore Cotronei - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

8. FISTF calendar
Added tournaments: -
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL TOURNAMENTS IN GREECE ARE CANCELLED (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
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 benoitvanwissen@skynet.be

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) & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de (new) GIBRALTAR - Joseph Bonfante - bonfi@jolosta.co.uk & Keith Sheriff - james.atkins@vertisfinance.com INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il (new) ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - 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
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Belgium
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In this week's issue...

1. Europa Cup website
2. Europa Cup recommended hotels
3. Templeuve Challenger
4. SC Verviers
5. Eoin Adams's football fantasy league
6. Calendar 2008-2009
7. Current list of suspended players (updated) 8. Suppliers of material 9. FISTF calendar 10. Other tournaments 11. Contact person in your country

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1. Europa Cup website
The tournament websiteis now live and running at http://www.freewebs.com/eucup/index.htm

2. Europa Cup recommended hotels
The organisation board of the Europa Cup recommends the following hotels:
A. Hotel Smokies Park - www.bestwestern.co.uk - 0161 785 5000 B. Premier Inn Hotel Oldham (Broadway) - www.premierinn.com - 0870 242 8000 C. Travelodge Oldham - www.travelodge.co.uk - 0871 984 6236 D. Holiday Inn Manchester - Central Park - www.himanchestercentralpark.com - 0161 277 6910 E. Broadfield Hotel - www.broadfieldhotel.co.uk - 01706 644 085 F. Travellers Retreat - www.travellersretreat.com - 0161 205 2400 G. Grains Bar Farm - www.grainsbarhotel.co.uk - 0161 624 0303 H. Premier Inn Hotel Rochdale - www.premierinn.com - 0870 242 8000 I. White Hart Inn - www.thewhitehart.co.uk - 01457 872566 J. The Saddleworth Hotel - www.saddleworthhotel.co.uk - 01457 871 888

3. Templeuve Challenger
The Templeuve Challenger had a poor turnout of 13 players last saturday but there were a lot of good games. After the 10 open players played in 2 groups of 5, there were very close semi-finals. Geoffrey marain beat Diederik Boyen on shots while Jos Ceulemans beat Elodie Bertholet (2-1). In the final, Ceulemans scored the winning goal in the last 10 seconds to win the final against Marain (2-1). Other winners were Diederik Boyen (veterans), Korneel Marchand (U19) and Edwin Tonneaux (U15).

4. SC Verviers
The SC Verviers club has a website up and running at http://www.scverviers.be/

5. Eoin Adams's football fantasy league
For those who want to join, feel free to click at http://uk.premiership.fantasysports.yahoo.com/football
Group ID: 13264
Password: easports08

6. Calendar 2008-2009
The calendar has been updated with tournaments being added in Gibraltar, Argentina and Spain.
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - (1) - Massimo Bolognino - vbt@iafrica.com
27/09/2008 - Future in Eugies (BEL) - yes - Olivier Père - thossa.buesing@fistf.com
4-5/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - (1) - Vincent Marti - scheen.s@skynet.be
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - yes - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - yes - Piero Capponi - sheriff@gibtelecom.net
22/11/2008 - Challenger in Eugies (BEL) - yes - Olivier Père - vbt@iafrica.com
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - yes - Marcus Tilgner - greg@redsalta.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - yes - Paul Eyes - ftcissy@yahoo.fr
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - yes - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - yes - Mike Burns - soxychallenger23@gmail.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open in Issy les Moulineaux (FRA) - yes - Thomas Ponté - henklandzaat@hotmail.com
07-08/02/2009 - Open in Cormons (ITA) - (1) - Marco Pinausi - olivier.pere@skynet.be
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - yes - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - yes - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - yes - Steve Bennett - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - yes - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - (1) - Juan Carlos Granados - s.cotronei@email.it
27-28/06/2009 - Grand Prix in Fiumicino (ITA) - (1) -
18-19/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Porto (POR) - yes - Norberto Miguel - vincent.cop@rsca.com
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - yes - Vincent Coppenolle - hans-ruf@freenet.de
25-26/07/2009 - Grand Prix Corbera de Llobregat (ESP) - (1) - Arturo Martinez - guenter.exler@gmx.at
(1): the association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(2): the US association has to send the name of the competition manager and the contacts (e-mail,...)
(3): the french association has to confirm the tournament

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

8. Suppliers of material
Astrobase - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com 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 (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
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 benoitvanwissen@skynet.be

11. Contact person in your country
This new section might be helpful. If there is any mistake or if your country is not listed, please drop me a line !
ARGENTINA - Grégorio Caro - steve.dettre@infostradasports.com AUSTRIA - Heinz Eder - laurentcoucke@hotmail.com CANADA - Mark Meihuizen - german.rm9@gmail.com CHINA & HONG KONG - Chong Cheuk Man - pacway@netvigator.com (updated) COLOMBIA - Andrea Lampis - arsenaliloveyou@hotmail.co.uk & George Zangylos - Z.Mateja@seznam.cz DENMARK - Jesper Staal Nielsen - jorgito183@hotmail.com ENGLAND - Martin Hodds - gtyrrell@horizon.co.fk FINLAND - Kari Hakkarainen at kari.hakkarainen@tietoenator.com FRANCE - Laurent Garnier - fred.vulpes@dstfb.de GIBRALTAR - Keith Sheriff - james.atkins@vertisfinance.com INDIA - Balwinder Singh - ashairani2001@yahoo.com IRELAND - John Moore - harman@zahav.net.il ITALY - Stefano De Francesco - masafumi@da3.so-net.ne.jp MALAYSIA - Edwin Wong - jzpavia@onvol.net MEXICO - Arq. Francisco Pérez Vilchis - medina@fifamexico.com
MONACO - Alex Popoff - bestuur@nsvb.com NEW ZEALAND - Steve Hickey - ibro101@yahoo.com NORTHERN IRELAND - Kenneth Beggs - anders_bergane@yahoo.no PERU - Miguel Angel Ruiz Repetto - nouskhan@hotmail.com PORTUGAL - 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 Mattersburg
2. New belgian forum
3. Scotland: Buccleuch Cup
4. Canada: national championship
5. Subbuteo Berlin
6. Scottish Grand Prix
7. USA: Maricopa cup 2008 (by Simon Hutchinson) 8. Northern Ireland rankings (update august 2008) (by Eoin Adams) 9. Ireland rankings (update august 2008) (by Eoin Adams) 10. Calendar 2008-2009 11. Current list of suspended players (updated) 12. Suppliers of material 13. FISTF calendar 14. Other tournaments 15. Contact person in your country

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1. Major of Mattersburg
97 players (including 2 thirds of foreign players) and 18 teams competed int he 3rd and last Major of the season in Mattersburg. After 5 losses in the finals of Majors, Carlos Flores (Spain) finally managed to win his first title in a Major. He beat Gil Delogne (Belgium) 2-0 in the final. For Delogne, it's was the first defeat in 4 finals... Deniele Bertelli and Massimiliano nastasi reached the semi-finals.
In the team event, TFC Mattersburg defeated ACS Perugia (2-1) int he final.
It's the 3rd victory in a Major for the austrian team after Mons 2001 and Mattersburg 2002.
Valentina Bartolini managed to win her 2nd Major of the season after beating Laura Panza in the final of the ladies tournament.
In the other categories, the winners were Alexander Haas (U19), Andrea Manganello (U15) and Erich Hinkelmann (veterans).

2. New belgian forum
For technical reasons a new forum has been relaunched to replace the old one at http://subbuteo.forumactif.net/

3. Scotland: Buccleuch Cup
19 players took part in the Buccleuch Cup, 1st stage of the scottish circuit. The tournament was played with the swiss system. Jim Law was the only one to win all his games. Gareth Christie is 2nd, Steve Bennett 3rd.

4. Canada: national championship
6 players competed for the title of national champion last week-end in Vancouver, British Columbia. Players were coming from the host club (3), Alberta (2) and from the Atlantic region (1). After the group stage (10 games each), the top 4 players qualified for the semi-finals. In the final, Brian Robinson defeated Mark Meihuizen (2-0) to win the first national championship since 1982.

5. Subbuteo Berlin
The website "Subbuteo Berlin" for the sales of material is now finished.
Bodo Reckzeh is preparing a new website. Interested players should contact Bobo by e-mail at mike@worldtablesoccer.com The website address: http://edinburghgp.110mb.com

7. USA: Maricopa cup 2008 (by Simon Hutchinson) The sixth round of the Maricopa Cup, played on August 16, saw the return of Greg Willey. Willey was a regular player in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The club lost touch with him after the end of Season 4 and start of Season
5 in 2006. It was a day when the newer players did very well with Munir Merchant finished in second place and Jason Mitchell in third, both players only lost one game.  Wayne Smith was undefeated (again) and finished in first place. You can read a full report and see all the results on the Southern California Subbuteo Club's website -> http://socalsubbuteo.com On August 23 the Southern California Subbuteo Club is hosting the Western States Open, the largest tournament in the western United States.

8. Northern Ireland rankings (update august 2008) (by Eoin Adams) 1. K.Beggs (1) 2. D.Clegg (2) 3. B.Spence (4) 4. J.McRoberts (5) 5. S.Rodgers (7)

9. Ireland rankings (update august 2008) (by Eoin Adams) 1. K.Beggs (1) 2. D.Clegg (2) 3. B.Spence (6) 4. J.Moore (3) 5. J.McRoberts (11)

10. Calendar 2008-2009
The calendar has been updated with a tournament being added in Northern Ireland.
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - (1) - Massimo Bolognino - vbt@iafrica.com -
27/09/2008 - Future in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
4-5/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - (1) - Vincent Marti - scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com -
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
22/11/2008 - Challenger in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - vbt@iafrica.com
-
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - (1) - Gregorio Caro Solis - Eeyevman@verizon.net -
6/12/2008 - Satellite in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
13/12/2008 - Satellite in Madrid (ESP) - (1) - Piero Capponi - jadot_benoit@yahoo.fr -
10-11/01/2009 - Satellite in Ciampino (Roma) (ITA) - (1) - Antonello Rodriquez - satelliteroma@libero.it -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open (Ind.) in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - dlfcalciotavolo@altervista.org - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - www.nitfa.org.uk -
09-10/05/2009 - Grand Prix in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - (1) - Salvatore Cotronei - ngoncalv@smc.smces.es -
18/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com 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 (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at vincent.cop@rsca.com February 21 - National tournament in Rochefort (BEL) ; CM: Valéry Dejardin at diruggiero.vito@skynet.be June 20 - Flanders Cup (BEL) ; CM: Filip Van Hulle at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - sheriff@gibtelecom.net (updated) GREECE - new contact person to be appointed soon (updated) HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr NETHERLANDS - NSVB - stevehickey@xtra.co.nz NIGERIA - Ibrahim Ahmed Ali - ken@nitfa.org.uk NORWAY - Anders Bergane - ruizrepetto@gmail.com PAKISTAN - Noushad Ahmed Khan - 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)
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More can be found on WWW.FISTF.COM and discussions are going on on the website's discussion Board (fistf.com/forum).

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In this week's issue...

1. Europa Cup 2009
2. New FISTF Handbook
3. Europa Cup promotional video
4. England: Cornwall Open
5. Malta: Valletta SC
6. Brussels Grand Prix
7. Open of Naples
8. Belgium: 5th Beach Cup
9. Austria: new Board
10. Calendar 2008-2009
11. Current list of suspended players (updated) 12. Suppliers of material 13. FISTF calendar 14. Other tournaments 15. Contact person in your country

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1. Europa Cup 2009
As a reminder, august 31 is the deadline for sending candidature files for the Europa Cup for clubs 2009. Candidatures should be sent to Heinz Eder at www.fistf.com soon. You can also ask me a copy (there is an english version and a french version) by e-mail.
The main changes are as follows:
1) page 14 - member nations and partner nations There is a better definition of which nations are member nations and what are the advantages of being a member nation.

2) page 20 & 21 - Licensing and Nationality of players
- the first thing is that every national association should read the chapter about "Licensing and Nationality of players" very carefully.
- the second point is very important as it means an important change for the team events. The additional point is:

m) For the purpose of club team competitions, a player will be considered a 'foreign player' if:
- He is licensed to play table football by another national association different than the one that licensed his club (in effect, if he does not have his domicile in the country where his club is headquartered); and
- He or she has a legal citizenship different from that of the country in which his club is headquartered and has been selected in the last five years to represent the national association of the state of which he or she has the legal citizenship in line with j).

3) page 23 - age categories
Yearly update

4) page 26 - Satellites, Challengers and Futures
- the minimum number of entrants is 6 instead of 8
- top clubs can play with their B-team (see new rules)

5) page 35 - Head referees
The sports Director appoints a head referee for all Majors and GP.

6) page 40+55+56 - fines
The fines have been raised

7) page 78 - Agenda
This is a new section

. Form 01 for the national associations
FISTF General Secretary Zach Walker sent the Form 01 to all national associations. We kindly ask each association to send us the form back with the general details of the association:
- names and addresses of the association's board members
- activity report of the association
- main national results of the past season
- list of clubs
- list of national transfers


3. Europa Cup promotional video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epjyz_EGe_Q

4. England: Cornwall Open
Bjorn Kegenbeim won the Cornwall Open last weekend (Big Ball), defeating Marcus Tilgner 6-4 in the final.  Anyone interested in playing in this event next year (02/08/09) should e-mail  Jeremy Bradley at www.freewebs.com/vallettasubbuteoclub

6. Brussels Grand Prix
The website of the Brussels Grand prix is as follows:
http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/

7. Open of Naples
The invitation fiel is now available from Alfredo Palmieri at massimobolognino@virgilio.it -
14/09/2008 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - wrkl@hotmail.com -
27/09/2008 - Future in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - zangylos@yahoo.gr
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4-5/10/2008 - Open in Bergkamen (GER) - Thorsten Büsing - vicent.marti@telefonica.net -
11-12/10/2008 - Open in Stembert (BEL) - Sébastien Scheen - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
22/11/2008 - Challenger in Eugies (BEL) - Olivier Père - vbt@iafrica.com
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29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - (1) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open (Ind.) in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - dlfcalciotavolo@altervista.org - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - www.nitfa.org.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - (2) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - (1) - Salvatore Cotronei - wrkl@hotmail.com -
18-19/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Porto (POR) - Norberto Miguel - vincent.cop@rsca.com - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com 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 (excepted the Grand prix).
FISTF is happy to confirm the following events.
30/08/08 - Future in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - alainmenge@hotmail.com September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at vincent.cop@rsca.com February 21 - National tournament in Rochefort (BEL) ; CM: Valéry Dejardin at diruggiero.vito@skynet.be June 20 - Flanders Cup (BEL) ; CM: Filip Van Hulle at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - sheriff@gibtelecom.net (updated) GREECE - new contact person to be appointed soon (updated) HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr NETHERLANDS - NSVB - stevehickey@xtra.co.nz NIGERIA - Ibrahim Ahmed Ali - ken@nitfa.org.uk NORWAY - Anders Bergane - ruizrepetto@gmail.com PAKISTAN - Noushad Ahmed Khan - 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)
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In this week's issue...

1. Future of Templeuve
2. Europa Cup for clubs
3. Updated archives files
4. FISTF on Facebook
5. Congratulations
6. FISTF form 01
7. Belgium: the Stembertoto
8. USA: contact person
9. New from Finland (by Kari Hakkarainen) 10. USA: Western States Open 11. FISTF calendar 2008-2009 12. Current list of suspended players (updated) 13. Suppliers of material 14. Other tournaments 15. Contact person in your country

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1. Future of Templeuve
14 players competed in the last tournament of the season, held in Templeuve, Belgium. 11 players played in the open category and the final was surprisingly a french affair with Olivier Bastin (Montivilliers) finally beating Frédéric Berthe (Le Raincy). The other finals were as
follows:
Consolation tournament: Renald Deloose - Kevin Wallez 4-3ms
U19: Edwin Tonneaux - Kevin Wallez 1-5
U15: Edwin Tonneaux - Serge Tonneaux 2-1
Veterans: Franz Hipfinger - Jean-Luc Platiaux 2-3
Teams: Templeuve United - FTC Le Raincy 2-2
Details:
Elodie Bertholet - Johnny Ledieu 3-2
Jean-Luc Platiaux - Mike Ledieu 1-2
Vincent Coppenolle - Frédéric Berthe 4-5 Renald Deloose - FFT 3-0

2. Europa Cup for clubs
The teams qualified via the world rankings are:
1- TFC Mattersburg (AUT) WR1
2- ACS Perugia (ITA) WR2
3- San Siro Worthing Fivestar (ENG) WR3
4- CCT Black&Blue 1983 Granducato Pisa (ITA) WR4
5- AS Hennuyer (BEL) WR5
6- Real Murcia CF (ESP) WR6
7- SC Chaleroi (BEL) WR9
8- TSC Falcons Athens (GRE) WR11
The national associations have to send their registrations to Heinz Eder
(www.subbuteonews.com has published the updated files of the FISTF archives.
There are several files with a lot of results and statistics. Don't miss the chance to check the performances of your favorites players! The golden book of the portuguese and belgian associations have also been added to the website.

4. FISTF on Facebook
Facebook is a growing social network and many subbuteo fans are already registered. Several groups were already dedicated to the beautiful game but on September 2, 2008 FISTF also launched their own group. More than 100 people already joined this group and many of them are people who didn't know about FISTF before. It looks like it will be a great tool to promote our international circuit of tournaments. Link: www.facebook.com

5. Congratulations
The FISTF Board would like to congratulate Didier Van Renterghem and Jennifer for their wedding. The ceremony took place in Brussels on August 23.

6. FISTF form 01
The FISTF Board has already received the form 01 from the following
nations: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Spain, France, germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, the Republic of Ireland, Monaco and Wales. The other national associations should send the form ASAP to Zach Walker at lennyfoster@gmail.com) is now the contact person of the American Subbuteo Association.

9. New from Finland (by Kari Hakkarainen) The finnish table football association will take part in a big tablegames event in Finland, which will take place on 17th and 18 of January 2009. The mainorganizer of the event is the finnish table icehockey federation. They have good sponsors, and so taking part in this event will not cost anything to us.

On 30th of August was decided the finnish championship with the finnish rules. The final was Mika Tuuri - Marko Tiikkaja *0-0. The winner, Tuuri lived several years in Italy, but is now back in Finland. On the third place was Janne Liesivaara, another player who made comeback after many years. He dominated the game in Finland in the 90's.

10. USA: Western States Open
The Southern California Subbuteo Club hosted the last American Subbuteo Association tournament of the season with the Western States Open.  The WSO is the Major competition for the western region of the USA.  Wayne Smith won the Open competition for the third time beating Steve Tucker in a thrilling match, scoring the winner with just seven second left in extra time.  Ian Sayer won his second Mary Jane tournament in a row defeating Dominic Hutchinson in the final.  Dominic had better luck in the Under 19 tournament beating Adam Carlson in the final.  A full report and the results can be found on the Southern California Subbuteo Club's website at http://socalsubbuteo.com

11. FISTF calendar 2008-2009
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - Massimo Bolognino - vbt@iafrica.com -
20/09/2008 - Satellite in Knighton FC (WAL) - John Lauder - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28/09/2008 - Future in Limassol - (2) - George Zangylos - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
4-5/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - (1) - Vincent Marti - scheen.s@skynet.be - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - hipfingerphilippe@hotmail.com - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - vbt@iafrica.com
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29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - (1) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it - wrkl@hotmail.com -
24-25/01/2009 - Grand Prix in Edimburgh (SCO) - Mike Burns - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Open (Ind.) in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - dlfcalciotavolo@altervista.org - olivier.pere@skynet.be
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28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - soxychallenger23@gmail.com -
1/05/2009 - Satellite in Cagliari (ITA) - (1) - -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Arbroath (SCO) - Steve Bennett - eoin.adams@yahoo.co.uk - www.nitfa.org.uk -
02-03/05/2009 - Open in Traiskirchen (AUT) - Christian Blümel - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi -
23-24/05/2009 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - botigers@infinito.it -
06-07/06/2009 - Open in Knighton (WAL) - John Lauder - granadosjc@terra.es -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - wrkl@hotmail.com -
18-19/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Porto (POR) - Norberto Miguel - vincent.cop@rsca.com - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com Bar Code Table Football -  http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter) Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com 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 Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

14. Other tournaments
September 6 - National tournament in Verviers (BEL) ; CM: Benoît Vanwissen at vincent.cop@rsca.com February 21 - National tournament in Rochefort (BEL) ; CM: Valéry Dejardin at diruggiero.vito@skynet.be June 20 - Flanders Cup (BEL) ; CM: Filip Van Hulle at goyo@futboldemesa.com.ar AUSTRALIA - Steve Dettre - heinz.eder@fistf.com BELGIUM - Laurent Coucke - mark.meihuizen@canadiansubbuteo.ca
CHILE - German Aburto - chapman728@yahoo.com & Antonio Carabillo - alampis@telmex.net.co CYPRUS - Paul Andreas - zangylos@yahoo.gr CZECH REPUBLIC - Zdenek Mateja - jstaal@sport.dk ECUADOR - Jorge Felipe Alvarez Peña - martinhodds@yahoo.co.uk FALKLANDS ISLANDS - Gary Tyrrell - kari.hakkarainen@subu.fi or laurentgarnier@atenaconcept.com GERMANY - Fred Vulpes - sheriff@gibtelecom.net (updated) GREECE - new contact person to be appointed soon (updated) HUNGARY - James Atkins - Ammy_Johal@jatt.com IRAN - Asha - johnmoorejm@hotmail.com ISRAEL - Menashe Harman - rapportifistf@fisct.it JAPAN - Masafumi Suzuki - imagine_newszine@mac.com MALTA - Joe Zammit Pavia - zcala@prodigy.net.mx & Manuel R.
Medina - alexpp2@wanadoo.fr NETHERLANDS - NSVB - stevehickey@xtra.co.nz NIGERIA - Ibrahim Ahmed Ali - ken@nitfa.org.uk NORWAY - Anders Bergane - ruizrepetto@gmail.com PAKISTAN - Noushad Ahmed Khan - apsubbuteo@hotmail.com RUSSIA - Oleg Mitkin - mike@worldtablesoccer.com SINGAPORE - Christopher Soh - kuff@global.co.za & elway7@terra.es & weareleeds4@hotmail.com SWITZERLAND - Paul Remund - kingsolom2001@yahoo.ca TURKEY - Kadir Bayrak - bayrak_kadir@hotmail.com USA - Lenny Foster - elporro22@hotmail.com WALES - Colin Lewis - Vincent.coppenolle@assur.cbc.be (work)
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In this week's issue...

1. Open of Naples
2. New date for the Maltese tournaments
3. All-Ireland Championships
4. New book about subbuteo
5. Belgium: national tournament in Verviers
6. Spain: national tournament
7. Open of Valencia
8. Literature's Festival of Mantova (by Stefano De Francesco)
9. Final ranking FISCT 2007-08 (by Stefano De Francesco)
10. Italy: news from Lazio SS (by Stefano Tagliaferri)
11. Congratulations
12. FISTF calendar 2008-2009
13. Current list of suspended players (updated)
14. Suppliers of material
15. Other tournaments
16. Contact person in your country

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1. Open of Naples
The tournament website is online at www.internationalopenofnaples.eu

2. New date for the Maltese tournaments
The Malta GP should change to:
31st January 2009 - GP for Teams
1st February 2009 - GP for Individuals
 
The Malta I.Open should change to:
28th February 2009 - I. Open for Teams
1st March 2009 - I. Open for Individuals

3. All-Ireland Championships
The first All-Ireland Championships in Dunmurry was a successful event, with 15 players taking part. Kenny Beggs won the Open and Veterans, beating Davy Clegg in both finals. Peter Morrison won the U19 title and Adam Scullion was runner-up. John Moore won the Plate. Full Results at www.nitfa.co.uk

4. New book about subbuteo
Paul Willetts is happy to announce that his book "TEENAGE FLICKS: MEMORIES OF THE SUB-BEAUTIFUL GAME", will be due for publication in early November. It consists of a mixture of jokey Subbuteo photos that pastiche sports photography. These are interspersed by brief reminiscences of Subbuteo, provided by a varied selection of well-known people, including Graham Taylor, Stan Bowles, Alan Mullery, Des Lynam, Will Self, David Baddiel, Arthur Smith and Alastair Campbell. Each reminiscence is accompanied by a collage photo showing that person as a Subbuteo figure. The book will be available in England via most branches of Waterstone's and Borders, as well as amazon.co.uk.

Incidentally, the book's publisher, Dexter Haven, an imprint of a small company called Black Spring Press, will also be producing packs of Subbuteo Christmas cards that might amuse our members.

For all enquiries and further information contact:
Robert Hastings
Dexter Haven Publishing
Curtain House
134–146 Curtain Road
London EC2A 3AR
telephone 020 7613 3066
paul.willetts@sizzel.net

5. Belgium: national tournament in Verviers
Valéry Dejardin (Rochefort) won the 2nd tournament of the belgian Super-Prestige circuit last saturday in Verviers. The finals were as follows:
Série A: Valéry Dejardin - Christophe Dheur 3-0
Série B: Michaël Denooz - Geoffrey Dheur 3-4ms
Série C: Richard Boulanger - Steven Jourdan 0-1
U19: Kevin Beckers - Jérôme Bertrand 0-1
U15: Laura Vanwissen - Dylan Ruwet 1-2
Veterans: Jos Ceulemans - Charles Goset 3-2
U12 winner: Benoît Collin

6. Spain: national tournament
Carlos Flores beat Alberto Mateos in the final of the first tournament of the season in Corbera de Llobregat last week-end. News at http://www.futboldetaula.cat/

7. Open of Valencia
The invitation file for the tournament is now available (in english, italian and english) from Vicent Marti at http://subbuteocollection.forumfree.net/?t=31800886

9. Final ranking FISCT 2007-08 (by Stefano De Francesco)
These are the winners of the ranking FISCT for the season 2007-08.
Squadre: 1° BLACK & BLUE PISA ; 2° Associazione Calcio Subbuteo Perugia 1973 ; 3° Bari
Open: 1° BERTELLI D. (Black & Blue Pisa) ; 2° Bolognino (Eagles Napoli) ; 3° De Francesco S. (ACS Perugia 1973)
Veteran: 1° RICHICHI (Palermo) ; 2° Finardi (Warriors Torino) ; 3° Tagliaferri S. (Lazio)
Under 19: 1° LA ROSA (Palermo) ; 2° Nespoli (Spezia) ; 3° Praino (DLF Gorizia)
Under 15: 1° TAGLIAFERRI D. (Lazio) ; 2° Palmieri (Eagles Napoli) ; 3° Bellotti (Eagles Napoli)
Under 12: 1° DE FRANCESCO A. (ACS Perugia 1973) ; 2° Solari (Spezia) ; 3° Battista (Napoli Fighters)
Femminile: 1° BARTOLINI (ACS Perugia 1973) ; 2° Costa (Eagles Napoli) ; 3° Guercia (Napoli 2000)
Squadre Primavera: 1° NAPOLI FIGHTERS ; 2° ACS Perugia 1973 ; 3° Lazio
Classic Subbuteo: 1° DE FRANCESCO S. (ACS Perugia 1973) ; 2° Spagnolo (Warriors Torino) ; 3° Bosco (Lazio)

10. Italy: news from Lazio SS (by Stefano Tagliaferri)
we are glad to present the S.S. Lazio Primavera season 2008/09. More details (names of players) on http://www.laziotfc.com/?q=node/1121
In the presentation tournament that start this season Diego TAGLIAFERRI beat Micael CAVIGLIA and Gianmarco and Matteo DEL BROCCO reached 3th and 4th position.

11. Congratulations
FISTF would like to congratulate Malta's Derek Conti and his wife for their wedding!

12. FISTF calendar 2008-2009
13-14/09/2008 - Open in Naples (ITA) - Massimo Bolognino - www.internationalopenofnaples.eu
14/09/2008 - Challenger in Johannesburg (SAF) - Vikash Ramnath - wrkl@hotmail.com -
27-28/09/2008 - International Open in Pireus (GRE) - Leonidas Koutroumanos - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
28/09/2008 - Future in Limassol (CYP) - (2) - George Zangylos - thossa.buesing@fistf.com -
4-5/10/2008 - Open in Valencia (ESP) - (1) - Vincent Marti - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
11-12/10/2008 - Open in Stembert (BEL) - Sébastien Scheen - http://opendestembert.wifeo.com/index.php
25-26/10/2008 - Europa Cup for Clubs in Manchester (ENG) - Alan Collins - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
08-09/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Brussels (BEL) - Philippe Hipfinger - http://users.skynet.be/fa239019/bsc/gp/gp2008/
22-23/11/2008 - Masters in Madrid (ESP) - Piero Capponi - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Gibraltar (GIB) - Keith Sheriff - vbt@iafrica.com -
29-30/11/2008 - Grand Prix in Berlin (GER) - Marcus Tilgner - http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/internati ... 08-inv.htm
29-30/11/2008 - Open in Buenos Aires (ARG) - Gregorio Caro Solis - info@royal78.com - www.flashcup.royal78.com
6/12/2008 - Open in Ellicott City (USA) - Paul ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
7/12/2008 - Open (Ind.) in Paris (FRA) - (3) - Thomas Ponté - p.capponi@hotmail.es -
13-14/12/2008 - International Open in Athens (GRE) - Chris Aggelinas - chragg@hol.gr -
10-11/01/2009 - Open in Temploux (BEL) - Benoit Jadot - antonellorodriquez@libero.it -
17/01/2009 - Satellite in Rhondda Valley (WAL) - John Lauder - mike@worldtablesoccer.com - http://edinburghgp.110mb.com
31/01-01/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Cospicua (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - ftcissy@yahoo.fr -
07-08/02/2009 - Grand Prix in Utrecht (NED) - Henk Landzaat - dlfcalciotavolo@altervista.org - dlfcalciotavolo.altervista.org
28/02-01/03/2009 - Open in Malta (MLT) - Hansel Mallia - olivier.pere@skynet.be -
28-29/03/2009 - Grand Prix in Milton Keynes (ENG) - Jeremy Bradley - romithoen@casema.nl -
11-12/04/2009 - Grand Prix in Beausoleil (FRA) - Alexandre Popoff - salkbenn@supanet.com -
9/05/2009 - Open in Belfast (NIR) - (2) - Eoin Adams - christian.bluemel@octapharma.at -
09-10/05/2009 - Grand Prix & Open in Helsinki (FIN) - Kari Hakkarainen - sheriff@gibtelecom.net -
30-31/05/2009 - Major in Bologna (ITA) - Riccardo Marinucci - wrkl@hotmail.com -
13-14/06/2009 - Open in Murcia (ESP) - (1) - Juan Carlos Granados - georgisd@vodafone.net.gr -
13-14/06/2009 - Satellite in Reggio Calabria (ITA) - Salvatore Cotronei - wrkl@hotmail.com -
18-19/07/2009 - Grand Prix in Porto (POR) - Norberto Miguel - vincent.cop@rsca.com - www.templeuvesport.tk
19/07/2009 - Satellite in Templeuve (BEL) - Vincent Coppenolle - www.templeuvesport.tk
25-26/07/2009 - Open in Rain (GER) - Hans Ruf - artmartinez@mixmail.com -
08-09/08/2009 - Major in Mattersburg (AUT) - Günter Exler - www.astrobase.it
Australian table soccer - www.subbuteoz.com
Bar Code Table Football - http://www.barcodetablefootball.com/
Bertu: www.bertu.eu
Best Teams Ever - www.bestteamsever.gr (Painting Services at Connoisseur Level - Greek Painter)
Biemme - http://biemme.cjb.net
Bodo Reckzeh - www.boomerangflick.com
Extreme Works - www.extremeworks.it
Flickmaster - www.flickmaster.com
Little Plastic Men - www.littleplasticmen.co.uk
new Zealand & Australia: www.nztablesoccer.com
Profibase - http://www.profibase.eu
San Siro Stadia - no website yet but contact Nicky Chappell at www.soccerinternational.com (many Hasbro Deluxe Club Editions in stock & 1500 sets from 65 different teams) -For US & Canadian residants only
SpeedyBases - www.speedybases.com (The Pioneer Table Soccer Bases - Greek Manufacturer)
Stefan Corda (international sites) - www.stefancordaitaly.com & www.stefancorda.co.uk & www.stefancordagermany.com
Subbuteo Netherlands - www.subbuteo.nl
Subbuteo shop - www.subbuteoshop.co.uk
Subbuteo USA - www.tablesoccerusa.com
Subbuteo World - www.subbuteoworld.com or www.subbuteoworld.co.uk
Subbuteo 66 - http://www.subbuteo66.com
That's Magnificent - www.thatsmagnificent.com
World Table Soccer - www.worldtablesoccer.com
Zeugo - http://www.edilioparodi.com/

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

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

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