Topic: Yahoo Sports article on Table Soccers World Cup event

[BradLaurine]

Yahoo Sports has their eye on the World Cup in France

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ycn-10754569

William Browning, Yahoo writer, has written an article that headlines Foosball on a global scale.
http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/536938/william_browning.html

With the help of Chris Toy and his connections, we might wish to thank Umbro's involvement on this and for future articles.

We are going to see more come out of France.

Please thank those that write these articles or at least pass them on to others.

GREAT STUFF for Foosball.

Brad Laurine

[TSR_Brad]

"I went to France three years in a row, kicked everyone's ass and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." 

[Tyler Foos]

Brad,

Cool stuff - thanks for posting.
One question - I have been reading that the USA has won the last 3 World Cups, yet the article you posted shows Austria as being the 2010 gold medal team. Which is correct?

Take care......................................Tyler

[alaskan thunder]

Tyler,

I know the US lost to France in the semi's a few years ago, but IIRC we won the last 3.

[PatRyan]

The USA has won the the Men's Division of the World Cup for the past 3 years.  In the past years the world cup has grown.
History
The first ITSF World Cup of Table Soccer was held in Germany in 2006.  There was only one division of play, with the team comprised of men and women players.  The USA took 5th place losing to France in the Quarterfinals.
The next edition of the World Cup took place in 2009.  In this year, there were 2 division, men and women.
The USA won the gold medal in the mens division. The USA womens team finished 5th.
Then is 2010, there were 4 divisions: mens, womens, juniors and seniors.  The USA did not field a junior team for this event.  The USA won the gold medal in both the mens and senior divisions. The USA women finished 9th.
In 2011 there were also 4 divisions, with the USA taking gold in the mens division, and silver in the senior division.  The women finished in 5th place. The USA juniors finished in 5th as well.
In 2012 there are essentially 6 divisions.  Mens Division 1, Mens Division 2, Womens, Juniors, Seniors, and Wheelchair/Disabled.
The mens division is divided into 2 divisions, and the USA is in Division 1.  The USA will field mens, womens, juniors and seniors this year.

Austria won the womens division in 2010, so it is true that Austria won a gold medal in 2010, but the article was not clear about that.

Now if we only had wheelchair accessible tables here in the USA....It would be great to be able to field players for the disabled/wheelchair category as well!!



Pat

[Tyler Foos]

Thanks for the info, Pat and Chris.

Tyler

[Old Meister]

Isn't Canada also Div 1?

[FOOZUL]

Warrior's  a sponsor?

[PatRyan]

I believe Canada is in Division 2 this year.  If they do well this year, they will move up to division 1.

Warrior Custom Golf is a sponsor of the US National Table Soccer Team for 2012.

Umbro is a sponsor of the US National Table Soccer Team for 2012.

[SilentSam]

Isn't Canada also Div 1?

Canada is Div 2. We dropped a div for 2 reasons really: 1 is the men/women's div split (Moya was a big boost in the 1st WC), the second is that the cost to play vs payouts isn't attracting our top ranked players. We still fielded a very strong team, but arguably not as strong as we really should be.