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USTSF Press Release - ITSF World Cup of Table Soccer
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May 9, 2006
ATTENTION: NEWS, EVENTS, SPORTS EDITORS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2006 WORLD CUP OF TABLE SOCCER
"KICKS OFF" IN HAMBURG, GERMANY
U.S. National "Foosball" Team Expected to Dominate
Hamburg - While the U.S. National Soccer Team has made tremendous
strides in international competition over the last 15 years (even
achieving a world ranking as high as fifth), most serious soccer
enthusiasts don't believe the U.S. team has any real chance of winning
the upcoming FIFA World Cup. However, the U.S. National Table Soccer
Team, whose players have captured a combined total of well over 20
World and 100 Major tour titles, is widely expected to dominate the
World Cup - of "Foosball." Yes, you read that right: foosball,
a.k.a. "table soccer." You know, that game with miniature soccer
men attached to rods that spin around to hit a little ball on a kitchen
table sized soccer field. As it turns out there's much more to it
than that, and you'll be able to see for yourself May 25-28, 2006 at
the famed Fischauktionshalle in Hamburg, Germany, where about 200 of
the world's most elite foosball players will compete for the
International Table Soccer Federation (ITSF) World Cup title.
Not that the U.S. foosball team will have it easy: top name competition
will include world #1 ranked Frederico Collignon of Liege, Belgium and
ITSF #2 ranked Rob Atha of Manchester, England, both heading up some of
the strongest teams in the tournament. Other top teams include Italy,
France, Denmark, Austria, Canada and Costa Rica. In all, the tournament
will feature teams from 20 different countries around the world. Each
team, having selected eight to ten of their nation's best players,
will be competing in a combination of doubles and singles events for
both men and women. In a true test of all around foosball skills,
competition will take place on five different official styles of
tables: Tornado Table Soccer™, Bonzini™, Garlando, EuroSoccer, and
Roberto-Sport.
So just who is the 2006 U.S. National Foosball Team that so many of the
world's foosball players are so worried about? They are: Robert Mares
(Team Captain) of Aurora, CO; U.S. #1-ranked Billy Pappas of Lowell,
MA; Terry Moore, Chicago, IL; Dave Gummeson, Coon Rapids, MN; Louis
Cartwright, Las Vegas, NV; Adrian Zamora, Newark, CA; Tom Yore, Tampa,
FL; Stayce Fowler, Cedar Rapids, IA; Lotus Leong-Chesborough, Colbert,
WA; and Dusty Bambenek, Canal Fulton, OH. The team's Coach-Manager is
Alan Cribbs of Pinnacle, NC, and stand-by players are Cindy Head of
Sterrett, AL and Bruce Nardoci, Charlotte, NC.
Thursday and Friday will be qualification rounds, with a special
opening ceremony at 7:00 pm Thursday. Playoffs are on Saturday with
semi finals and finals on Sunday the 28th and a final awards
presentation will take place on Sunday evening at 6:00 pm. Admission
fees for spectators vary between $7-12 per day, or about $40 for all
four days. Sponsors of the event include Carlsberg Brewery, Sportstadt
Hamburg, Fabula-Film and the DEHOGA Hamburg hotel and restaurant
association, while sponsors of the U.S. National Table Soccer Team
include Nike™, Brunswick's Tornado Table Soccer™, Bonzini™ USA,
Tornello Enterprises, Foosball.com, Rod-lock.com, and TTR Master Wraps.
Other ITSF 2006 World Tour events are scheduled to take place in
Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Poland,
South Africa, United States, the UK and more. In fact, this year's
tour will be the largest worldwide table soccer pro tour ever!!
For additional details about the event and the sport of table soccer,
please see the following websites:
www.tischfussball-wm-2006.de/eng_teams.html - Official World Cup of
Table Soccer website
www.table-soccer.org - ITSF web site/international rankings
www.foosball.com/ustsf - Official U.S. Table Soccer Federation website
www.foosball.com - General information about the sport of table
soccer
For more information, photos, or for an electronic version of this
release, please contact:
Larry Davis, Executive Director, USTSF, Tel: 1-563-580-9485; Email:
larry.davis@ustsf.foosball.com
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Respectfully submitted,
Larry "Euro-Foosin" Davis
for USTSF
"Ask not what the sport of foosball can do for you, ask what you can do
for the sport of foosball." |
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