Any table football fans here?
My entire life, I had a football table somewhere around. First when I was 4 y old, big table on highschool, then bars, then jail (i was juggling with young adults in jail), then in technology then in psychiatry (being a psychologist) and then in music studio’s.
This weekend i won the local table football yournament in a thrilling final. 
I just love this game.
Anyone else playing table football?
When I was a kid, they had a full-sized foosball table at the summer camp I used to attend, and I would also play at the video arcade and pizza parlor where they have these types of novelties.
Nobody commonly has them in US homes, so outside of entertainment centers I haven’t played in many years but has some nice memories for me.
Congratulations on your win, sounds like a lot of fun.
Hell Yeah!!
I haven’t played in a long time but had one in my apartment when I moved to where I currently live. No furniture in the dinning room, just a foosball table and a great time!!
Congrats on the win!!
Yeah, for me tabletop football is a dim nostalgic twentieth century memory. I was miserable in the twentieth century, but I miss it sometimes.
Ah, table football or as we call it around these parts: matraquilhos.
There used to be coin operated ones everywhere, especially in our version of the pub, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. Robust and made of solid wood, even with the stupid amounts of axle grease they used they had a tendency to jam. They are probably too expensive, heavy to maintain, and are becoming rarer by the minute.
The traditional model:
Here you can see a match between SL Benfica and Sporting CP, two of the big three portuguese clubs, both of them from Lisbon, the capital. The more up north in the country you go, the bigger the probability of the green team being replaced by the blue colours of FC Porto, the remaining team from the trio, based in Oporto, the country’s second largest city.
Been a few years since I played one, but they took a considerable amount of my spare change during summer vacations.
There was a bit of a boom for a couple years. I knew a couple of semi-well-to-do families who had one, or some had the “sharper image” style mini table. I also recall having a second cousin whose parents were into pinball machines and such, and they had one.
Other than that, it was more of an arcade thing.
I have dim memories of playing it in a basement … or was that tabletop hockey? … it was so long ago …
What did Robert E. Howard say? “I have forgot the very name men called me . . . “
Now I want to buy one!
Workout equipment moving back into the garage for warmer weather. Seems like a nice way to fill that void in the basement!
Calling it matraquilhos makes it sound like some kind of serious adult pastime, like a chess maneuver or a sexual position.
Or an amuse-bouche that you pair with a nice margarita.
Had to google that ‘un
That’s fantastic!!
I’m pretty sure I would be living in the basement if I were in your shoes!
I dig it.
Not sure if its popular here in Australia. But when I was travelling around Europe I played a lot of it with friends. Nothing serious just a laugh. Always good beer and food involved.
I was heavily addicted to foosball for a while, but then the people I used to play with moved on in different directions. It‘s an amazing feeling when you begin to manage to play proper passes and shoot so hard that the back boards of the table almost crack.
Here in France it’s called “babyfoot” (pronounced “bah bee foot”)
My own favorite is the Bonzini B60, would love to have the room for one.
I spend quite some time on these as a kid…
Yeah I thought for a minute they were talking about this crazy thing called teqball 
Where I live in SE London, some posh twats bought the local boozer.
They done it up like a fucking wine bar… removed the pool table, and installed table-football instead.
Squatters live there now.
Karma.
Nice, love the bonzini
In nl we play deutscher Meister but in my city they play garlando. I have a Deutscher Meister at home, got it for free.
