![]() ![]() (CAVE) Center Against Violence Everwhere (USA) Youth Center. From Giff Kucsma (revised link 2/00)Īverage Joe's Bar Page Games People Play. (01/01)įoosball during military service in Germany in the Early 60's: EM Club Old B&W photo of men playing foosball in the Enlisted Men's Club. Visitors to Antarctica See that same table I have a photo of in the images section! Direct link to photo. Random family photo album "Goofster" 01/01 (I have all of these pictures if the link is no longer active, email me, and I'll post the pictures in the second section of this page) (These are sites not devoted to foosball, but which do have foosball content).ĭates on links indicate last time the link was checked.Ĭlick here or title bar to return to top of Foosball Heaven This is a list of People's Pictures of their Foosball Tables I have found on the Net and other random foos references. Now in reverse chronological order newest items at top! Drink holders, extra balls and server-ball holders are common extras and tables can also feature adjustable-height legs.Rob's Foosball Heaven: People's Foosball Tables on the Net Balls can also be made of different substances, and these include cork, plastic and marble, and what the ball is made from can affect play as, for instance, different balls move at different speeds.įoosball tables also differ according to the number of goalie foosmen they have and some have three goalies, equally spaced across the width of the table, while others have downward sloping corners so that the ball always rolls back to the goal area.Ī foosball table can also come with folding legs to facilitate storage and its top surface is usually either glossed or laminated. Foosmen are made from substances like wood or carbon-fiber and players manipulate the bars by hand to make them kick the ball and score goals. ![]() A normal size foosball table should have 8 rows of foosmen and these tiny manikins are attached to horizontally rotating metal bars. Every week 1.9 million people play foosball.įoosball tables are usually 4ft long and 2ft wide, although they can vary in size and the longest one presently in existence is the 7m table that forms part of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece called Stadium. First competition was in the early 1970's in America, but was in the 1950's in European countries. Foosball did not become popular until after World War II. The first inventor thought to be Lucien Rosengart. Origins of the game are notĮasy to trace, it could have developed in different countries over the same period, probably in the late 1800's. It is, however, the French-style foosball table that is the official selection of the International Table Soccer Federation's tournaments and world tour.įoosball game tables are the American name for Fuss ball, which is German. They also come in different styles and it is customary to speak of the Italian-style table, the German-style table and the American-style foosball table. Millions of people all over the world play foosball tables and, consequently, foosball tables are manufactured in many countries. Grand Hudson Deluxe Hybrid Shuffleboardįoosball, which is also known as football table, is played where tiny foosmen are attached to rotating bars controlled by two or more players who try to beat each other in a miniature association football-style match. ![]()
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