Promotion for forthcoming events in June 2019

A quick look at the promotion of forthcoming events with the great job of some of our active clubs.

In Italy, the "69ers" will hold a tournament in Borgo Vercelli and they proudly told the local newspaper the tournament is played under WASPA banner, which is a great form of respect.

In South Africa the Pretoria Flickers have revealed the poster of their next tournament.

In Derry (Northern Ireland), the next DCTFC tournament will be held next Monday.

Finally, the amazing job done by our Spanish friends of Marina Citerior SC who have had support of local sponsors and will hold a special tournament on June 21&22. Rumors said Carlos Flores Lopez will be taking part, which is fantastic for WASPA. there will be a prize money and all details are available from https://www.portaldelamarina.org/evento/torneo-de-subbuteo/

Thanks once again to all organizers for the efforts to promote the game!

A new project in Greece

From times to times we are happy to see new project to attract new players. We have been informed that our firned Christos Kotrotsos, member of the Roligans club in Greece, decided to start a table football project in the Tavros professional & technical school where he's a teacher.

The school organised for the first time a club for indoor sports like table football and table tennis. The name of the amateur club is Tavros Technical School Indoor Sports Club and the emblem is the "bull" and the school logo. The club is going to organise tournaments through the year.

The first table soccer tournament took place on Monday with 15 players in 5 groups of three, celebrating the end of the school year, a few days before the examinations period.

At the table soccer tournament the winner of open category was Christos Kotrotsos and the winner of U-19/students and finalist was Hodo Angelos. Semi-finalists were Simopoulos Giorgos and Islami Hermes.

Good luck to Christos and his students for the new project!

Great promotion in Greece

Last week-end the Flaming Flickers had a great presence at the Vintage Toys expo in Athens.

The Flaming Flickers showed the game to a lot of visitors with the hope to have some new players coming.

The video below shows how they managed to get people involved besides other games.

Cayne Matthews wins promotional event

London Road Subbuteo Club held a WASPA promotional on 13th March 2019. London Rd player Chris Bedford hosted the event and six players played a league format. With all still to play for the last two games played could have changed everything. Jonathan Bedford could have won the league with a win over Cayne Matthews in his last game but lost and finished 4th. Last game of the night also see Ruby Matthews have a chance to win the league, she needed a win against her dad and was 1 up at half time, but lost the game leaving her in 3rd place Chris Bedford in 2nd and league winner Cayne Matthews.

Table 
Cayne Matthews 13pts
Chris Bedford 10
Ruby Matthews 9 +5
Jon Bedford 9 +1
Raoul Newton 3
Matthew Thomas 0

Scores 
Jon B 1-0 Raoul N
Chris B 2-0 Jon B
Matthew T 0-3 Raoul N
Chris B 2-0 Matthew T
Raoul N 0-4 Chris B
Jon B 7-0 Matthew T
Cayne M 2-0 Raoul N
Ruby M 2-0 Chris B
Chris B 1-1 Cayne M
Jon B 1-0 Ruby M
Matthew T 0-3 Cayne M
Ruby M 3-0 Matthew T
Raoul N 0-4 Ruby M
Cayne M 6-0 Jon B
Ruby M 1-4 Cayne M

Many thanks to Chris Bedford for hosting a great event.

Chris Bedford wins Greenfield Cup

The Greenfield Cup 2018 took place last Friday. The tournament was a promotional event held in Greenfield, Wales. Besides Chris Bedford, four new players made their WASPA debut. Chris Bedfoord won his four games to win the title.

The final standings were as follows:
1. Chris Bedford
2. Ryan Jones
3. Jon Bedford
4. Melissa Lineton
5. Matt Thomas

March event coming up in Pretoria

Promotion with kids in Northern Ireland

There was a great day at the Acorn primary Christmas fair! There were exhibitions, friendly games and even a small tournament. For several reasons we will not count the games in the WASPA circuit but hopefully many of the new players will have a chance to play official games in the near future. Well done to all the youngsters today and special thanks to Craig Stewart for making things happen!

New partner club in Spain

We are very pleased to have a new partner club in Spain. Marina Criterio SC based in the Alicante area in Spain will be starting a new season  next Saturday, so that they will organize a first tournament in the near future, share photos and results with WASPA.

Interested players can contact Pasquale Carrassi at subbuteo.marina@gmail.com

Action in Czech Republic

On September 22, David Young, Jiri Uchityl and Marco Zucchi met in a wine cellar in Prague to play some games.

It was not really a tournament, more a way to play games and to promote Subbuteo. It was a nice evening of play without pressure of competition, in particular for David who is recovering after having broken his leg a few months ago. The good news is that David is going better and playing games.

There will be more action on October 15 and, depending on numbers, this might be a WASPA tournament this time.

Well done to Czech Subbuteo Tym 2014 for their efforts of promotion.

Goal of the tournament by Shaqiri

Euro 2016 pictures from Greece

Some lovely pictures by our friends from the Flaming Flickers in Athens. Thanks to Panos Panagiotides for sharing!

Euro 2016 event in Greece

Dave Colett wins in Lincoln

The WASPA promotional tournament of the Lincoln Flickers had a real success this Sunday with a good turnout of 9. Dave Colett took the honors while Jeremy Boothman was runner-up and John Devaney ended in third position. The event was also a good opportunity to celebrate John Devaney's birthday.

Huge promotion in Tombelle, Italy

Last sunday there was a Subbuteo tournament in Tombelle, int he North of Italy. The evetn was organized by David Lazzari and the goal was to get new players involved. All players played a huge group (league system). Leonardo Vannucchi was the final winner, finishing ahead of Enrico Hoxa, Mattia Bettin and Federico Pasqualotto. The other players were Daniel Zambon, Andrea Masiero, Lonardo Stefani, Sebastiano Salmaso, Francesco Campanale, Roberto Roman, Samuele Mazzuccato, Luca Vignola, Lorenzo Azzarito, Marco Maggi, Alvise Renaldini and Giacomo Renadini. Congratulations to all the players for their efforts and to David for the great promotion.

New fences for subbuteo table

Great job by the Hartamas Tigers clubs in Malaysia!

Nice promotion in Savona (Italy)

On september 20th, the city of Savona hosted a promotional event during the 40th anniversary of Assonautica Savona.

Some details about the day: 3 Subbuteo Astroturf 77, 12 members of Subbuteo Club Ponente organizing the event, 150 players learning the rules.

Congratulations to Subbuteo Club Ponente!

Link: http://stsponente.blogspot.it/

Sport festival in Budapest

Last Friday and Saturday there was a sport festival in Budapest. As in May Subbuteo had a great success, a lot of children came and played with us. Here are some pictures. More pictures here: http://budapestsubbuteo.blog.hu/2014/09/22/kicsiket_es_nagyokat_is_elbuvolt_a_subbuteo

Gábor Baross, budapestsubbuteo.blog.hu

Players of Subbuteo Budapest: Gábor Baross, Zoltán Baross, Adrián Száki

The "Mundialito" for young players in Greece

During the World Cup at Brazil, Flaming Flickers subbuteo club and their Junior team organized an ongoing promotional event for the kids.

At Mundialito kids were introduced to table soccer by choosing their favorite national team from the qualified at Mundial teams. They were following it to a series of games till the best teams reached the big final.Kids from ages 4 up to 12 had fun makig their first steps to the game and everybody won official Fuleco mascot gifts.

For the history this world cup was taken by Holland of Vasilis Panagiotides.

(Report by Panos Panogiotides)