Table Football

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Table Football

Our Table Football Game is a great gift at a great price. Perfect for both football lovers and haters, everyone loves to play the table top, affectionately known worldwide as foosball.

Our Table Football Game is a great fun and nice and compact at 69 x 37 x 24 cm. This is a gift for boys of ALL ages, great for creating your own mini field of dreams when you are not too busy watching the delightful game.

Table Football is the world's favourite table top game!

Table Football (also called foosball) is a table-top game based on football (soccer). The origins of the game are lost in the mists of time, but most historians agree that the first tables probably appeared in France and / or Germany in the 1880s-1890s.

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While several have claimed the honor of inventing the sport, no one has yet been able to produce irrefutable evidence of the exact time and place of the birth of the sport. Patents exist from as far back as the 1890s.

Table football is also known in the US as foosball, from Fußball, the German word for football.

How To Play Table Football

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. 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 40 mph (64 km/h) in competition. The sport/game/simulation requires quick reflexes with a subtle touch using the player's fine tuned motor skills, control and knowledge.

The basics include 'passing' the ball, where you have the ball in your possession with one bar, and pass it to another bar, and 'shooting', where you find a hole in the defense and attempt to score.

The winner is determined when one team scores a predetermined number of goals, say 3 or 11. A two-goal victory is most often required. In competition, every ball that enters the goal is counted, unless the player or players on the scoring team broke a rule during the play. Large events have referees that determine the infractions and penalties.

Football tables can vary in size, but a typical table is about 4 ft (120 cm) long and 2 ft (60 cm) wide. The table usually contains 8 rows of "foos-men", which are plastic, metal, wooden, or sometimes carbon-fiber figures mounted on horizontal metal bars. Each team of 1, 2, or 3 human players controls 4 rows of foos-men.

Foosball strategy varies greatly. With teams of one human each, it is impossible for each person to control all four rows of foosmen simultaneously. Some players keep the left hand always on the goalie or defensemen and move the right hand among the other three rows. More aggressive players may take up an attack with the offense and midfield, leaving the goalie unattended.

With practice, it is possible to learn very fast "set-piece" moves, including the "snake", "pull-shot", and "front-pin". The pull shot is where you position the ball near the top of the oppositions goal. Then you pull your bar, which moves the ball downwards, and you aim for the hole or corner that is no longer guarded. The snake and front-pin both involve pinning the ball, or clamping the ball with your men. That way one can sway either direction.