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May
02
2006

Learning Foosball

Learning foosball is a lifelong endeavor. These files will give you a start on the right path to playing like the big boys. When you are ready to take your new skills to the next level. KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE'S Here you will find information, articles and pages which have been archived do to age. They are still of great value but simply are not on the current list above. We advise you to read everything we or anyone else offers you. All knowledge is good!  


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Jun
16
2005

The Women of Foosball

  By Mary Grayson Last summer Liz Hill asked me if I'd be interested in promoting the women in foosball by interviewing the top players for Table Talk. These interviews would give the women a chance to talk about the things they wanted from foosball as well as tell their story to help us see what was winning for women today. The professional women of the sport would finally start to get some of the recognition they deserved. We were able to isolate some of the realities Liz and the other pro girls were facing, and began to see how some of them were affecting the entire female player base. Table Talk has devoted an entire section to women for the past year. Being our number one ranked player, I interviewed Liz first, right before the 1995 World Championships. Dominating the majority of the titles in '95, Liz was feeling little competition at the time and mentioned it in her interview. This, along with the spectacular showing of Cami Carter in the '95 World Championships sparked the lulling fire in legendary Cindy Head who made a much anticipated and exciting return to the tour. I interviewed Cindy at the beginning of the 1996


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Jun
16
2004

Facts about Foosball

In Europe, foosball is typically played with only one goalie and a cork foosball. The headquarters for the International Table Soccer Federation is in Nantes, France. Professionals can compete for up to $100,000 in international tournaments that can last up to a week. The most expensive foosball table available is the “Opus” built by Eleven Forty, which costs $80,000. In Turkey, foosball is described according to the sound the ball makes, they call it Langirt. Foosball tournaments have been running as early as the 1950’s. Artist Maurizio Cattelan created a 7-meter (23 feet) foosball table that takes 11 players to a side. French-style players often call foosball “baby-foot”. Frédéric "Rico" Collignon has won seven world championships and is considered to be the world’s best player of the decade. Although the International Table Soccer Federation is located in France, only once has a player from France won a world championship in over 30 years.


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