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This is about the game using players on rods. Table football/soccer is also a generic term of the game known colloquially as Subbuteo. Subbuteo is a set of Board games simulating Team sports such as Football (soccer, Cricket, both codes of rugby and hockey
Table football (Bonzini style table).
Table football (Bonzini style table).

Table football, or alternately foosball, is a table-top game that is based on association football (soccer). Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Table football is normally called foosball in the United States and Canada. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

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Names

The most common names in English are table football and foosball, though table soccer is also used.

Table football is generally known as Tischfußball or kickern in German. [1] In Italy it is known as calcio balilla or bigliardino or biliardino (from "biglia", little ball) or even calcetto (less common). Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest In México it is known as futbolito, in Argentina it is known as metegol, in Chile it is known as taca-taca, in Spain, Colombia and Costa Rica it is known as futbolín, in Guatemala it is called futío, in some other Spanish-speaking countries being futbol de mesa or futbolito, although the latter might also refer to football played on a smaller field, in Hungary as csocsó, in Croatia as 'stolni nogomet', in Portugal as matraquilhos, in Brazil as pebolim or totó, in Turkey as langırt and among French-style players is known as babyfoot. Mexico State or State of Mexico (often abbreviated to " Edomex " from Estado de México in Spanish) is a state in the For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in Guatemala (República de Guatemala) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west the Pacific Ocean to the southwest Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Croatia (Hrvatska ˈxȓvatska officially the Republic of Croatia ( Republika Hrvatska) is a southern Central European country at the crossroads between Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches [1]

Foosball is also spelled "foozball, foozeball, fooseball".

History

Patents exist from as far back as the 1890s (see the external links section for more detail). Table football, also known as foosball, table soccer or baby foot, is a table-top game that is based on Association football (soccer The history of Table Football began when Alejandro Finisterre thought of making a form of soccer that would be fun for children who could not play actual soccer. Alexandre Campos Ramírez ( May 6 1919 &ndash February 9 2007) (known as Alexandre de Fisterra) was a Poet, Inventor So he commissioned Francisco Javier Altuna to build it for him, thus the first foosball table.

In 2002, the International Table Soccer Federation (ITSF) was established in France with the mission of promoting the sport of Table Soccer as an organizing sports body, regulating international competitions, and establishing the game with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as an officially recognized Olympic sport. The International Table Soccer Federation ( ITSF) is a Non-profit organisation based in France that promotes Table soccer. The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games

The game

A goalkeeper
A goalkeeper

To start play, the ball is served through a hole at the side of the table, or simply placed by hand at the feet of a figure in the middle of the table. This is usually the red player (or the side of the player where coins are thrown in). Players attempt to use figures mounted on rotating bars to kick the ball into the opponent's goal. A ball may travel at speeds up to 64 km/h (40 mph) in competition.

Ball control
Ball control

Some rules consider "360-degree shots" or "spinning" (using the palm of the hand to rapidly spin the bar all the way around, instead of using wrist action to kick the ball with a bar-mounted figure) illegal, although this is not always the case.

The winner is determined when one team scores a predetermined number of goals, typically five, ten or eleven in competition.

Foosball tables can vary in size, but a typical table is about 120 cm (4 ft) long and 61 cm (2 ft) wide. A centimetre ( American spelling: centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one hundredth A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The table usually contains 8 rows of "foos-men", which are plastic, metal, wooden, or sometimes carbon-fibre figures mounted on horizontal metal bars. Each team of 1, 2, or 3 human players controls 4 rows of foos-men.

The arrangement is standard. Looking from left to right on one side of the table;

Row 1 Goalkeeper 1 foosman
Row 2 Defense 2 foosmen (sometimes 3)
Row 3 Opponent's attack 3 foosmen (sometimes 2)
Row 4 Midfield 5 foosmen (sometimes 4 or 6)
Row 5 Opponent's midfield 5 foosmen (sometimes 4 or 6)
Row 6 Attack 3 foosmen (sometimes 2)
Row 7 Opponent's defense 2 foosmen (sometimes 3)
Row 8 Opponent's goalkeeper 1

Foosball can also be played with four people in "doubles" style, in which there are teams of two people on either side. In this scenario, one player can control the two defensive rows and the other team member uses the midfield and attack rows.

Competition

Table football on Tornado in New York
Table football on Tornado in New York

Table football is often played for fun in pubs, bars, workplaces, schools, and clubs with few rules. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Foosball is also played in official competitions organized by a number of national organizations, with highly evolved rules and regulations. Organized competition can be traced back to the 1940s and 1950s in Europe. But the professional tours and bigtime money events began when the founding father of modern professional table soccer, Lee Peppard of Seattle, Washington, United States announced a "quarter million dollar tour" in 1975. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Peppard went on to award several million dollars in prize monies and since his Tournament Soccer Organization went out of business in 1981 several orgs and promoters have continued holding large purse professional table soccer events worldwide. The ITSF regulates International events including the yearly World Championships and the World Cup held to coincide with the FIFA World Cup every four years. The International Table Soccer Federation ( ITSF) is a Non-profit organisation based in France that promotes Table soccer. The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international Association football In 2006, Austria, Germany and Belgium took the Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively.

Tables

A Garlando style table with a game in progress
A Garlando style table with a game in progress
An 11-per-side Leonhart table football game in Berlin
An 11-per-side Leonhart table football game in Berlin

A vast number of different tables exist. Garlando is a company based in Italy that produces Pocket billiards (pool and Table football (foosball tables The table brands used on the world tour and official ITSF tournaments are "French-style" Bonzini, "American-style" Tornado, "Italian-style" Roberto Sport and Garlando, "German-style" Tecball. Garlando is a company based in Italy that produces Pocket billiards (pool and Table football (foosball tables Other major brands include Kicker, Rosengart, Jupiter Goldstar, Eurosoccer, Löwen-Soccer, Warrior, Lehmacher, Leonhart, and Smoby. There was also a 7-meter table created by artist Maurizio Cattelan for a piece called Stadium. Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist born in Padova, Italy, in 1960 It takes 11 players to a side. Another unique foosball set is the Opus Table created by the Elevenforty company. Each table is hand-crafted, and each foosman is made to resemble his on-field counterpart.

Differences in the table types have great influence on the playing styles. Most tables have one goalie whose movements are restricted to the goal area. On some of these tables the goalie becomes unable to get the ball once it is stuck out of reach in the corner; others have sloped corners to return the ball. Other tables have three goalies, one in the center and one in each corner to reach the ball so sloped corners are not needed. Another major difference is found in the balls, which can be made of cork, plastic, wood or even marble and metal, varying the speed of shots a great deal, as well as the "grip" between the man and the ball.

Robots

Robots designed to play table soccer by roboticists at the University of Freiburg are claimed to be able to beat 85 percent of casual players. A robot is a mechanical or Virtual Artificial agent In practice it is usually an electro-mechanical system which by its appearance or movements They use a camera from below a transparent table base to track the ball, and an electronic control system to control high torque motors to rotate and move the foosmen. Currently an expert player can beat the robot 10 games to 1. [1]. Another table football robot, Foosbot, is claimed to have never been beaten by a human, but has not been tested against expert players. Yet another table football robot is under development by two students at the Technical University of Denmark. The Technical University of Denmark ( Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, DTU was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish Den The robot uses a camera mounted above an ordinary table [2].

In popular culture

A professional Table Football player is Gary Pfeil. He was the five time National Champion and the winner of the 1st International Table Soccer Tour.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b BFA - Table Football

External links

International and national federations

Sports table football is the competitive game based on the Board game of Subbuteo. Air hockey is a game for two competing players trying to score points in the opposing player's goal

Dictionary

table football

-noun

  1. a game, based on football (soccer), in which opposing players are represented by small figures mounted on rotating bars
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